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IED used in twin blasts in Hyderabad City: DGP

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:03:19 +0000

Improvised viagra Explosive Devices (IEDs) were used in the two bomb blasts which were acts of terror and were aimed at causing maximum damage, Andhra Pradesh DGP V Dinesh Reddy said tonight.

He put the number of injured at 84 who are being treated at seven different hospitals in the city. At least 12 people have been killed in the twin explosions.

IEDs were used in the blasts, which were powerful and planted on bicycles, which took place in a span of about two to three minutes, Reddy told reporters here.

The aim was to cause maximum damage and they chose crowded areas accordingly, the DGP said, adding the two blasts took place in the Dilsukhnagar area around 1900 hours.

The first one was at the Konark-Venkatadri cinema theatres area and the other was at a spot about 100 yards from there.

The seriously injured would be shifted to corporate super-speciality hospitals in the city for better treatment if needed, he said.

Noting that the entire area has been sanitised after the blast, he appealed to the people not to panic and believe in rumours.

A high alert has been sounded in the state capital and the police are carrying out checking and frisking operations, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma said.

Meanwhile, personnel of National Investigation Agency (NIA), stationed in Hyderabad, visited the scene and picked up clues from burnt two-wheelers.

Hyderabad Political leaders visit Hyderabad blast area

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:03:01 +0000

Leaders of various political parties tonight visited the Dilsukhnagar area here, the site of twin bomb blasts in which 12 people were killed and cialis online scores injured.

Chief Minister

Kiran Kumar Reddy reached the area along with Home Minister Sabita Reddy and Labour Minister Danam Nagender.

City Mayor Majid Hussain had to face protests from local people when he went to the area.

YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijaya, party MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, TRS MLA T Harish Rao, BJP leaders G Kishan Reddy and Bandaru Dattatreya, CPI leader Ramakrishna were among those who went to the explosion-hit areas.

Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy made a late night visit to Omni Hospital where she meet the kin of those killed in the blasts and those undergoing treatment.

Telugu Desam Party chief and Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu, who was in Guntur district on his foot march, would reach Hyderabad tomorrow morning and visit the blast sites, his party sources said.

Asking people to not to believe in rumours, MIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi said that peace should not be disturbed and people should follow good sense.

Investigating agencies, he said, should do a professional job and find out who were the real perpetrators of such heinous crime.

US condemns Hyderabad blast offers assistance in probe

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:02:35 +0000

The United States today strongly condemned the terrorist bombings in Hyderabad that killed a dozen people and offered assistance in investigation if requested by the Indian government.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is scheduled to meet visiting Foreign Secretary, Ranjan Mathai, in a

few hours would also personally convey his condolences on the terrorist attacks in Hyderabad, his spokesperson told reporters at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State
Department.

“We condemn the cowardly attack in Hyderabad, India, in the strongest possible terms, and we extend our deepest sympathies to those affected and to the people of India,” the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily news conference.

“As you know, Secretary Kerry

will have a chance to see Indian Foreign Secretary Mathai later this afternoon, and he will convey our sympathies in person and affirm our support for India during this difficult time,” she said.

“The United States stands with India in combating the scourge of terrorism, and we are also prepared to offer any and all assistance that Indian authorities may need,” Nuland said.

Terrorists strike Dilsukhnagar for second time in 10 years

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:02:23 +0000

The serial blasts that rocked Hyderabad Thursday killing 12 people and injuring 80 others is one of the worst terror attacks in the city in recent years.

Dilsukhnagar area, where the bomb blasts occurred during the rush hour, had witnessed an explosion in 2002. Two people were killed in that explosion near Saibaba Temple on Nov 21, 2002.

Police had killed two local Muslim youths

allegedly involved in the 2002 blast in two separate shoot-outs the same year. Police had blamed Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for the blast.

Ten years later, terrorists have targeted the same area, a commercial hub located to the south of Musi River and about 15 km from the core city area.

Nine people were killed in the blast during Friday prayers at the historic Mecca Masjid in the old city of Hyderabad on May 18, 2007. Five more died when police opened fire to quell the mobs that erupted in anger near the mosque.

On Aug 25 the same year, twin blasts rocked the city killing 42 and injuring 50 others. Gokul Chat, a small eatery in Koti, a crowded commercial hub and Lumbini Park opposite state secretariat in the heart of the city were targeted.

For the Mecca Masjid blast, police had initially blamed and Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami (HUJI). It had picked up dozens of local Muslim youth, who were later acquitted by the courts.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) last year arrested six activists of right-wing Hindu groups for the Mecca Masjid blast.

For the twin blasts at Gokul Chat and Lumbini Park, the police arrested suspected terrorists of LeT and some activists of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

Jayalalithaa justifies ban on Vishwaroopam

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:47:06 +0000

Breaking her silence over the controversy surrounding the ban on Tamil film ‘Vishwaroopam’, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today said her Government was willing to facilitate resolution of the crisis if the Muslim outfits and actor Kamal Haasan could hammer out an agreement.

Coming under all-round attack over the two-week ban

imposed in the wake of protests by Muslim outfits, Jayalalithaa defended the Government’s decision, saying it was based on intelligence inputs about likely violence and to maintain law and order.

Making it clear that she had no “personal grudge” against Haasan or “personal interest” in banning the movie, she said that there was no question of curbing freedom of speech.

“Even at this stage, if Muslim organisations and Kamal Haasan are willing to sit and arrive at an amicable agreement, the Tamil Nadu Government is willing to facilitate that,” she said after holding talks with top officials.

Squarely blaming the actor for the developments, Jayalalithaa said: “If Kamal Haasan had shown

Muslim leaders the movie in the beginning, all this could have been avoided.”

The Chief Minister said over the last few days, there has been lot of “hysteria” whipped up in the media over ’Vishwaroopam’ and “reckless” and “wild charges” had been levelled.

She said the threat to law and order was “very real” and many Muslim outfits had announced a series of agitations. The primary objective of the Government was to maintain peace and tranquillity. “We relied on Intelligence inputs,” she said.

“As Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, my first and foremost priority is maintenance of law and order and to ensure public peace in which people can carry on with their daily lives and work,” Jayalalithaa said, citing inadequate police manpower to provide security at all 524 theatres where the movie was to be screened.

Govt fixes Oil India floor price at Rs 510

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:46:05 +0000

The Union Government has fixed the floor price at Rs 510 a share for sale of its 10 per cent stake in Oil India. The price is 5.4 per cent discount to the Thursday’s closing price of Rs 539.20.

Oil India shares today gained 2.3 per cent over previous day’s close on the BSE.

The Government would raise Rs 3,065 crore by selling 6.01 crore shares of Oil India through offer-for-sale route and the auction would take place tomorrow.

The decision on the floor price and date of the share sale was decided on Wednesday by the Empowered Group of Ministers but the pricing was not revealed then.
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The Centre holds 78.43 per cent stake in the company and its stake would come down to 68.43 per cent, after the disinvestment.

Recently, the company conducted road shows in Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK and the US.

Oil India’s paid-up capital as on March 2012, was Rs 601 crore.

The Oil India public issue, the third disinvestment this fiscal, will help the Government to achieve its Rs 30,000-crore revenue target from stake sales.

The Government has so far raised Rs 6,780 crore through

disinvestment of two PSUs — Hindustan Copper (Rs 880 crore) and NMDC (Rs 5,900 crore) — in the current fiscal.

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Firing on many cylinders

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:39:19 +0000

G.D. Raja, Managing Director, Adventures India Commodity

The number 60, prominently written on the registration plate of the BMW 3-Series car, almost reads as ‘GD’. Sensing my inquisitive look, he said, “Yes, it’s 60, and it’s my idea,” he says, with a triumphant grin on his face. “It stands for Gunasekaran and Devaghi, my parents. All my vehicles have the same number,” says 32-year-old G.D. Raja.

Raja has a chain of businesses – commodity broking (Adventures India), instant coffee export, a chain of coffee pubs (Goodmorning Café), logistics (LRG Logistics), real estate (GD Shelters), jewellery retail (GD Gold Garden) and a play school (GD Public School).

Ask him whether he became an entrepreneur by accident or was forced upon him, he says, “No, no. It’s purely by choice.” His father, who runs a transport business in Chennai, wanted to see him as a top-level executive in a big corporate house. Despite his father’s persuasion, he chose not to take part in any campus interviews when he was doing his MBA at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchi. “Because, I was very stubborn that I should start something on

my own,” says Raja, founder CEO of the GD Group of companies.

In 2003, after he completed his MBA, he ventured into a business as planned, with an initial investment of Rs 3 lakh, which he “borrowed” from his father. He took distributorship of food products from various manufacturers.

He stocked and distributed many products from packaged atta, maida to asafoetida to provision stores from a small portion of a building in Chennai. There was an 8-10 per cent margin. As most of the products were sold on credit, and the shop owners did not pay on time, it often landed him in financial problems. “During such a crisis, my friend, Rajam, who studied with me at BIM, used to bail me out by lending money from her salary.” But, that did not go on for a long time. At one point, the situation worsened and he could not even pay the rent for the portion he had taken on lease. He quit the distribution business.

And that is when the idea of having his own brand struck him, and they (Raja and Rajam) finally narrowed down on instant coffee. It was in early generic cialis 2004, when Sunrise and Bru were the dominant players in the market. When approached, Consolidated Coffee Ltd at Hyderabad readily agreed to manufacture for him. ‘Goodmorning Cafe’ was born. He positioned it as a B2B product and sold it to commercial establishments, “as this segment was not very brand conscious”.

The first month sales were Rs 8,000 but in three years, the annual turnover went up to Rs 4 crore. CCL could not meet his demand, as it had to meet its own export orders. In a tight spot again, he decided to set up his own manufacturing facility. Though many banks rejected the project because of his age and lack of collateral, thankfully, State Bank of Hyderabad agreed to extend the loan. “That was the breakthrough for us,” says Raja. In late 2011, when he was 31, he set up his instant coffee manufacturing facility at Andimadam in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, with a 200-tonne-a-month capacity. After that there was no looking back.

As there were a lot of enquiries from overseas, he started exporting too. Now the unit is converted into a 100 per cent export-oriented-unit. The unit is now being expanded to manufacture 750 tonnes a month.

He extended his coffee export business by foraying into ‘coffee pubs’, under the brand Goodmorning Café. It’s a chain of five outlets, now only in Chennai.

In between, in late 2004, as he had “a lot of free time in the evenings”, he started a commodity broking firm, Adventures India. The peak business time for the Commodity Exchange is towards the evening (to coincide with the New York exchange). “I learnt that commodity market has a higher potential than the stock market, and took membership from MCX,” he explains.

He positioned his broking firm as an ‘exclusive commodity broking firm’. Due to lack of awareness, he had a tough time bringing in investors. His perseverance paid. Now Adventures India carries out transactions worth Rs 600 crore a day. “We are South India’s leading commodity broking firm with more than 200 branches across the country,” says Raja.

His logistics business too has an interesting story behind. He invited P.R. Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha, Chairman of the Ramco group, as the chief guest to inaugurate an Adventures India outlet in Rajapalayam. During their conversation, Rajha asked him to start a transport business, with a promise to award Ramco’s contracts in that region. LR Logistics was started with 30 trucks. And, now it runs 54 trucks, exclusively for Ramco.

Now his group employs a little over 300 people. “My dream is to expand the business and employ at least 1,000 people by 2015,” says Raja.

Act against police officers: Kodiyeri

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:32:40 +0000

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has demanded action against the police officials who were using third-degree methods against CPI(M)

workers taken into custody in connection with various cases

in Kannur district.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Mr. Balakrishnan said that he had given letters to both the Chief Minister and Home Minister listing the names of the party workers who were subjected to third-degree interrogation by the police. He said he had also named the officers involved.

Parents urge school to make swimming classes optional

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:32:22 +0000

Even as confusion prevailed outside the premises of Padma Sesahadri Bala Bhavan in K.K. Nagar, on Saturday morning, over a parent-teacher meeting, many said they had come hoping that the school would tell them exactly what transpired on Thursd

ay.

Several parents voiced concerns about the swimming session. While some parents said they had been keen that their children learn swimming, until the accident involving M. Ranjan, many others said they had voiced concerns about the class right from the start.

A parent of a class four student said her child was afraid of swimming, and attended the classes reluctantly. Students are initiated into swimming at the end of class II, and it is compulsory until class VII. “I put him in a private swimming class, where I tag along, so he would learn to swim and not fret about it in school. A year ago, a few parents had appealed to the principal asking for better trainers, and she gave us a patient hearing. But nothing has changed,” she said.

One parent said he would not want the school to discontinue swimming classes, instead

they

must step up safety measures and employ better trainers. “Many students have not overcome fear of water despite attending classes for over a year. I do not know for how long it is acceptable to push a reluctant child into the water,” he said.

Parents said students were exempted from swimming only on medical grounds. The module should be made optional, many parents said. A student of class four said while he enjoyed swimming, many of his classmates continued to stand on the edge of the pool.

Another parent of a class IV student said there should ideally be one trainer for two students, and in the case of beginners, parents must be allowed to accompany the child. Many parents said they had little knowledge of the safety measures in place.

“Until now, we placed complete faith in the school because they had been running a swimming class for so many years, and nothing untoward had happened,” a parent said. He did not take it seriously when his son expressed fears about swimming because he felt every child went through that phase, the parent said.

Some parents, however, brushed off Thursday’s accident as a one-off incident, and said they wouldn’t mind if swimming classes resumed. The police have, so far, questioned Indira Vaidyanathan, principal of the school, and Usha Srinivasan, the class teacher. They have also made enquiries with Ranjan’s parents and his uncle.

No end to Congress’ miseries

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:29:55 +0000

The CAG’s triple bouncer could not have come viagra pills at a worse time for the Congress and the Manmohan Singh government — both already fighting wars on multiple fronts and lurching from crisis to crisis.

On Saturday, Congress managers tried hard to s

alvage the situation. They accused the official auditor of sensationalism and said its reports bristled with contradictions. But since the same drama was played out during the 2G mega scam — also outed by the CAG to a chorus of Congress protest — the reports this time became entirely believable. Not surprisingly, the Opposition saw the CAG verdict as having dealt a mortal blow to UPA-II, reinforcing the perception that it is a “corrupt” regime run by people obsessively engaged in the pursuit of ill-gotten wealth. The BJP rubbed it in: “This is not just a scam, it’s a case of

murder and loot.”

A senior Congress functionary thus analysed the situation confronting the party and the government: “It was bad enough that the economy has taken a downturn with growth hitting the lowest point in a long time. Today we are faced with a social unrest that is frightening beyond words. Instead of appearing strong and in control, the government is looking more and more dysfunctional. It does not help us that the more we try to shake off the corruption charges, the more they seem to stick to us.”

Trouble has been raining in the Congress’s backyard. The party has as good as lost Andhra Pradesh, which delivered an electoral bounty in 2009, helping it cross the 200-mark in the Lok Sabha. The Congress made the most noise in Uttar Pradesh but finished last in the Assembly election. Indeed, with Assam on the boil and prospects in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan looking none too good, there is currently not one State where the Congress can claim to be on firm ground.

The party has mismanaged its relations with the allies who are angry and sullen. The DMK feels neglected. The outsmarted Trinamool Congress is still seething over the presidential election fiasco. The NCP, which was a largely bankable ally, has been hurt over the way the Congress unilaterally decided on the number two slot in the Cabinet. Sharad Pawar, who had pitched in to help when Mulayam Singh and Mamata Banerjee jointly tripped up the Congress on the presidential election, is miffed that the Congress did not even think it fit to consult him on the appointment of the Prime Minister’s presumed second-in-command.

In the event the Congress fails to shore up its image, it could impact the cohesion of the UPA. After all, corruption has the potential to become an electoral hot-seller as indicated by the number of political parties that signed up to support Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare.

Pak groups behind morphed images, says Home Secretary

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:29:12 +0000

Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh on Saturday blamed Pakistan-based elements for uploading inflammatory and objectionable content on the Internet that painted an exaggerated picture of the recent violence in Assam.

Mr. Singh told journalists

here that Ministry of Home Affairs officials have identified over 100 websites on which false and morphed images were posted from Pakistan to incite

5,000 youths arrive in Guwahati from south

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:28:11 +0000

Two special trains from Bangalore pulled into the Guwahati station on Saturday, bringing 5,000 youths of the northeast from different parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Leaving their jobs and personal belongings, on account of cialis online rumours about

their personal safety, these youths brought home worries not only for themselves and their families, but also for the State governments.

The families are upset that the remittances these youths sent home every month will come to a halt, if they are unable to return to work; this means that they have to depend primarily on agriculture. And farming is no more remunerative. After all, that factor sparked the migration first.

The States are worried as they are not in a position to re-employ these youth if they choose to stay back.

Bhupen Sarmah, director of the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change, a think tank, says: “The return of the youth, employed mostly in the lower-end job market elsewhere, will inexorably add to the colossal unemployment problem that the region has been confronting, which prompted them to leave. Let us not talk about the remittance their poor parents used to receive, however small it might be. Secondly, it may also reinforce the sense of alienation ‘from mainland India’ in young minds.”

Jayanta Madhab, an economist who headed the Employment Generation Mission of the Assam government, says migration not only helps youth get employment and better education, it also has a larger social implication of removing the feeling of alienation. “Northeast youth are preferred by employers because of their positive attitude and good manners. Their employability can be enhanced through skill development,” he says.

Siddhartha Gogoi of Sepon in Assam’s Sivasagar district, one of the returnees, has been working as a security guard for three years in Bangalore. He says he has no option but to return to his Karnataka job as

soon as possible, as he is the breadwinner, and has no land except a plot with a small house. He earns Rs.7,000 a month and stays in company housing, sending Rs.5,000 every month to his mother and sister, who is doing a computer course.

Lawyers strike to protest attack on judges

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:27:48 +0000

Three judges in the capital to protest an attack on buy viagra online without a prescription all six district courts, the lawyers are on strike today, a day.

He said: “We condemn the attack.The law and order situation is very bad. The police should take strong action against offend

ers. ”

According to the judge when the police arrived Dakshinpuri bike collided with his car, after which the magistrate Garg bike riders and car driver attacked.

Luke was unconscious on the court, the victim was crying

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:26:53 +0000

New Delhi .. Australian cricketer Luke Pomrshbak Delhi court today granted interim bail a day. The

player with the Thursday night American woman was arrested on charges of tampering.

Court found the half-hour dramatic course of action. IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore are playing at the 27-year-old fainted while telling about the incident the victim was crying.

Pomrshbak policemen carried out the court room and gave them water. After he regained consciousness and returned to court. The court room, lawyers, journalists and the audience was packed.

Pomrshbak to fight their country and the oldest record is confronting with the police. On Thursday night after the match that the party has been accused of flirting with women. Ms. Bagga Nvita the metropolitan magistrate today to have relief.

Pomrshbak after the alleged beating Sahil was admitted to the ICU of

a private hospital. Magistrate said, “the accused is given bail by tomorrow.”

During the hearing, the court asked the Delhi police that he did not have the hotel’s CCTV footage. Court police wanted to send players to judicial custody.

Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) said to Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:23:48 +0000

Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) into the Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan at Wankhede Stadium, has imposed a five-year ban. Shah Rukh as an audience will not enter the stadium. The BCCI is showing Khan

descends to the rescue. BCCI vice president

Rajiv Shukla said the Board will take final decision in this regard.

Khan decided to ban the MCA’s managing committee of the emergency meeting Friday morning was unanimity. Chaired by chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said the MCA MCA is the message that will not tolerate such insolence. He said in a press conference, “If you break the rules to take action. It does not matter who is going to break the rules. It will take strong action on the message that misbehavior. ”

Deshmukh said, “recognition within the field how could he, without papers.He said: “We have a five-year ban imposed on them and it was decided by unanimity. Will apply to all matches on this Wankde. Whether they are domestic or international ‘

Asked whether the Board could change this decision, Deshmukh said, “we have decided to save the dignity of the Union. BCCI has been told everything. BCCI has no control over the decision. We are an independent body and the Wankhede Stadium is our property. ”

MCA Deshmukh said several officers were present at that time and all of them condemned the behavior of SRK. “The MCA many officers were there at that time. Further no evidence that Khan had misbehaved. Also present were Assistant Commissioner of Police, who said the actor was intoxicated. ”

Asked to withdraw the scope of the ban, he said, “That question does not arise. Khan has not sought an apology. He has filed a police complaint. BCCI, MCA or the IPL can not afford this kind of behavior. The police will take action on the matter. ”

BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty said that the MCA has been reported to the Board. He said, “We will look into it. In addition, such measures will be taken that such incidents may not be in the IPL next time. ”

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Chairman and BCCI vice president Rajiv Shukla said the Board will take final decision. “The state may recommend empty units, but the final decision is taken on board. When the matter comes before the board, only to be decided. “

Won't compromise with people's emotions: Aamir Khan

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:08:25 +0000

Aamir Khan is known for his perfection as he believes in doing everything from his heart. When all big Bollywood stars made their television debut with game and dance reality shows, Aamir chose a different route.

The actor who loves to connect

with the common people thought of something unique that will involve everybody. “The show is for everyone. It’s an effort to understand ourselves, to make our lives better. The show gave me a chance to connect with common people from different states and cities,” he said.

Aamir unveiled the theme song Tera rang aisa… The song has been written by Prasoon Joshi and composed by Ram Sampath. It has been shot by Ram Madhwani. Speaking about the song he said, “I wanted a romantic song because I have love in my heart for my country, like every Indian. The song is so beautiful; the lyrics will make you fall in love.” He further informed that each episode will have a song.

He revealed that he has been working on this show since past few years and shot just 13 episodes of Satyameva Jayate as of now. Aamir delayed his forthcoming films like Talaash and Dhoom 3 for the show.

He also informed that the same channel earlier had offered him to host a game show but he chose something closer to his heart. “Television is a powerful

medium and I wanted to use it properly. I have taken a route which I understand. I am an entertainer. I am doing things which are close to my heart, things I enjoy the most without compromising with people’s emotions,” said Aamir.

The show will be dubbed

in all regional languages and will be telecast on Doordarshan at the same time. Satyameva Jayate will be an hour’s show and will be aired on every Sunday at 11 a.m.

Kajal scores over Tamannaah

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:07:10 +0000

This has perhaps

been one of the most talked-about projects in Tollywood in recent times. With director Sukumar and superstar Mahesh Babu being part of the project, many leading ladies had their eyes set on it. The buzz was that actress Tamannaah

was being considered for the role initially, but Kajal is the lucky one.

“I am excited to be a part of this project. I have worked with Sukumar and Mahesh Babu before and share a good rapport with them,” says Kajal. Though hesitant to give away too many details about the film, the actress does spout the oft-heard line that her role in the film is different from what she has done before. “It’s a very intelligent and sensible film,” she says.

Quiz her about the project’s various controversies and pat comes her reply, “I am not sure what you are referring to. I have been shooting out of the country for some time and since I have come back, I have been busy travelling within the country.” The actress is also slowly but steadily inching her way up in B-town. She’s currently shooting for her next Hindi film, Special Chabbis, in which she plays the love interest to Akshay Kumar. The film, which is based on a 1987 heist, has Kajal as the only woman among 26 men, but she has no qualms about that. “I have always wanted to work with Akshay and I liked the script, everything worked out well in the film,” she says.

So is she aiming for the top in Bollywood too? “There is no limit to wanting and I am a very ambitious person, but I want to be a part of good cinema. I loved the roles that have been written for me so far and want to balance my work in all the industries I am a part of,” says Kajal.
And so, with her kitty filled with films, it appears that the actor has no time for anything else in her life. “Right now, I am in a happy space and satisfied with how things are going. I am extremely busy, which also means that there’s no time for love. I don’t have a man in my life right now and marriage is a long way off,” she signs off.

Queen seeking new travel aide preferably one who is teetotal

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:23:53 +0000

London, Oct 30 (ANI): The Queen is now seeking a new travel aide in place of the former one, who has been suspended again on grounds of his notorious and unacceptable behaviour at the palace.

Matthew King, 41 was recently suspended after he

turned up drunk for work.

This is not the first time he got suspended, as he was removed from his post last year too, after he took home a rare orchid given to Her Majesty on a state visit to Abu Dhabi and Oman.

But post this incidence, King returned at the Royal Collection, where he was given a temporary position.

King paid the price for his misdeed as the Queen demoted him to the post Travelling Yeoman, in charge of checking luggage and moving equipment

for the royals and staff on visits, both here and abroad.

The job involves taking care of luggage and equipments, booking air flights and rail journeys, obtaining visas and arranging trips on the royal train. (ANI)

Slice of Mughal history on sale at Sotheby’s (With Image)

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:22:28 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) A large painting of Delhi’s Moti Masjid that will lead the auction of important Russian works by Sotheby’s in New York Tuesday is regarded as the best of Russian artist Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchangi

n’s India series in the 19th century.

Measuring 13 ft X 16 ft, the painting of the Pearl Mosque has been donated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for sale, along with seven other works.

The mosque was painted by Vereshchangin in late 19th century, the auction house said in a statement from New York.

The work – one of the artist’s largest works – is estimated at $3-5 million and it has been on display at Sotheby’s York Avenue Gallery since Sept 28, it added.

The painting of the Pearl Mosque is part of Vereshchagin’s “Indian series” which he painted after a two-year visit to India.

The series features numerous depictions of architectural monuments, all of which he realistically captured with painstaking attention to detail, the statement said.

Vereshchagin’s progress on Pearl Mosque at Delhi was interrupted by the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1877, during which the artist set aside his work and served as a volunteer with the Russian Imperial Army.

He returned to the canvas in 1878, and finished the masterwork the following year, it added.

“By the mid-1880s, Vereshchagin found himself

in financial need, and decided to try selling his works…,” the statement said.

He went to New York for the first time in September 1888 for his show at the American Art Association.

The exhibition was a success, and proved so profitable that it was turned into a travelling exhibition. The Pearl Mosque at Delhi was purchased for $2,100 by philanthropist Roland C. Lincoln of Boston, Massachusetts. Lincoln donated the work to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the following year.

“…the Pearl Mosque represents pure painterly perfection. For an artist made famous by his provocative images of war, the work showcases Vereshchagin’s supreme versatility, and underscores his position as one of the leading visual historians of the 19th century,” Sonya Bekkerman, head of Sotheby’s Russian Paintings department, said in New York.

The Pearl Mosque, located inside the Red Fort in the capital, is known to have been built by Aurangzeb

in 1660-1670 for his personal use. The mosque was used by the women of the seraglio and is no longer open to public.

Indian Grand Prix a job well done (Comment)

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If anything, the inaugural Formula One Indian Grand Prix at Greater Noida Sunday gave birth to a new culture of motorsport in a country that otherwise is obsessed with cricket, Bollywood and of course, politics.

For sure, promoters Jaypee Gr

oup and the Buddh International Circuit felt the birth pangs, but the new born appears healthy and a bundle of joy. From here on, the future of this “child” is dependent on those responsible for it – the Indian motorsports honchos.

To an extent, the huge embarrassment of the government-supported Commonwealth Games in Delhi last year has been somewhat compensated by the BIC that is comparable to some of the best Formula One tracks in the World.

The Hermann Tilke-designed 5.14 Kms long circuit marked by an undulating 1.2 Kms straight and the driver’s delight of a ‘Parabolica’ (turns 10 through 12), has tremendous potential to become the very best

and as double World champion

Fernando Alonso remarked, the BIC can get better over the years.

The facility built by a corporate that overcame massive odds, not to speak of the usual skepticism and hordes of Doubting Thomases who dot the Indian landscape, is something the country can be justifiably proud of. Of more significance is that it has paved the way for motorsport in India to move to the next level.

The very fact that a clutch of Indians racing in the two support races, even got to drive on a full-fledged Formula One track and on a Grand Prix weekend in itself was a huge plus, for they would have gained immensely by the experience.

For Indian motorsport, the hard work begins now and the eyes would be on the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) to build on the resounding success of the October 28-30 weekend that will go down as a historic and epochal moment in the country’s racing history.

And when Sebastian Vettel brought home his Red Bull car while completing his third career treble of Pole, Fastest Lap and Win, the country would have heaved a collective sigh of relief that the event passed off smoothly in front of an estimated global television audience of 500 million besides the capacity 1.2 lakh spectators at the venue.

There may have been glitches in the lead up to the race weekend, but certainly, there was no doubting the commitment on part of the promoters who surmounted last minute hassles and pin pricks in the form of cargo clearances, taxes and a vagabond canine.

It stands to reason that the Indian Grand Prix can only get better. The dust factor that added a few creases of worry is sure to be addressed and once the facility develops over the years, there is every possibility that India will become a favourite Formula One destination.

The drivers who entertained the fans over three days have all endorsed the circuit even though there are shades of Sepang International Circuit in the BIC layout, but that is an issue hardly worth a debate, for overall, the Indian Grand Prix was an unqualified success.

The promoters and organizers have another year to build further on the edifice while India, and specifically New Delhi, like other Formula One venues, will ease into the world of Grand Prix racing.

Congress minister’s pro-Omar remark draws party’s flak

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Jammu, Oct 30 (IANS) Taking strong exception to their party’s minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din’s remark that Omar Abdullah will stay on as chief minister for the full term, Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have asked him to decide whether he wants to stay in the party.

Minister for Public Health Engineering and Irrigation Taj Mohi-ud-Din had stated that National Conference’s Omar Abdullah will stay chief minister for “full six years”, ruling out the possibility of rotational chief minister. The NC and Congress are ruling alliance partners.

In two separate statements Sunday, the Pradesh Congress Committee leaders have criticised the minister’s remarks.

PCC spokesperson

Mohammad Muzzaffar Parray termed the minister’s comments as “unfortunate”. He also ridiculed the minister for suggesting that Congress was consulted on the proposal for withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Jammu and Kashmir, in contradiction to what PCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz had said earlier.

Soz had lambasted the chief minister for making a “unilateral statement on AFSPA” and had denounced that Omar had not consulted Congress.

The PCC spokesperson said: “Soz is clear on this question and he enjoys support of the entire party in the J&K state”. He added that “Taj should know that he is seen in the public as a person who promotes National Conference at the cost of Congress party. He is also seen as a person who enjoys the public perception of being more loyal than the king, rather impetuously. It is for him to decide whether he would be morally right to continue in the Congress.”

In another statement, PCC general secretaries Vinod Sharma, Vinod Mishra, Maheshwar Singh, Ashok Sharma and Anil Chopra said that “whatever will be the decision of party high command on the issue of rotational chief ministership will be acceptable to the party rank and file”, but they lambasted at

minister for issuing a statement “which is a prerogative of the party high command not of Taj Mohi-ud-Din.”

“It would be better for him to set his own ministry right which is not properly functioning to the expectations of the people as in most of areas people are suffering from water scarcity,” they added.

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Vijay steals show in ‘Velayudham’ (Tamil Movie Review)

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Film: “Velayudham”; Cast: Vijay, Genelia D’souza, Hansika, Santhanam, Saranya Mohan; Producer: Aascar V. Ravichandran; Director: Jayam Raja; Music Director: Vijay Antony; Rating: **1/2

Director Jayam Raja promised that he is preparing a treat

for Vijay’s fans and he kept his word with “Velayudham”, an out and out a Vijay show.

The fast-paced actioner starts with journalist Bharathi (Genelia D’Souza) losing her colleagues and becoming the target of powerful people after her sting operation to

expose a group.

To end the menace, she creates an imaginary character called Velayudham claiming he would teach a lesson to evil elements.

Little did she know that there is a milkman called Velayudham (Vijay) alias Velu, who leads a content life in a village with his sister Kaveri (Saranya Mohan) and cousin Vaidehi (Hansika).

Velayudham, unaware of all this, reaches Chennai and coincidently on the same day terrorists planned a bomb blast at the Egmore railway station. He saves people without knowing that he is doing so.

He does the same a couple of times more. Everything happens in such a manner that his real identity is not known to anyone therefore people start believing

Bharathi’s Velayudham exists.

Both the general public and villains are now searching for Velayudham.

On the other hand Velu is moving around like an ordinary man. Bharathi manages to meet him and tells him that he has saved lahks of people and urges him to become the real saviour. Humble Velu refuses to become an avatar.

But he is forced to don the role of the saviour after being duped by a chit fund company.

The rest is all about how Velayudham fulfils his mission by busting powerful nexus between the terrorists and the politicians.

Velayudham is for Vijay fans. Though Vijay’s formula failed to hit the bull’s eye in “Kuruvi” and “Villu”, director Jayam Raja has made the same formula work in this film.

The presence of Kashmir terrorists in Tamil Nadu looks like a joke. The conspiracy and the network to implement it are not done well. Everything defies logic and takes too many things for granted. But who cares when the script moves fast and the hero entertains with his typical comedy, dance, romance, action and of course punchy dialogues!

The fictitious character becomes a real one, thanks to some unexpected events. While audience enjoy’s Vijay act as Velayudham without his knowledge, they go gaga when he becomes the saviour by his choice.

As far as the logic and finesse of the script and narrative is concerned, less said, the better.

Vijay is full of energy and charm. He is impressive in action-comedy-romance, which is his forte.

Hanshika looks bubbly and provides some skin show while Genelia plays journalist with ease.

Shayaji Shinde, Pandiyarajan, Manivannan, and Vincent Asokan add support to the script while Santhanam steals the show with his hilarious one-liners.

Vijay Antony’s music is not fine but fits the bill. Placement of songs weakens the flow of the script.

“Velayudham” defies all logic. But it has the magic of the star called Vijay and the magic works well with the audiences.

The Most Banned Horror Movies in History

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Our report to bare roots of Goa's illegal mining: BJP

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With the Goa assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on illegal mining mired in legislative red tape, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to come out with its own report, which promises “to bare the roots of illegal mining.

Speaking to reporters here Sunday, Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar said that the

report was in the last stage of compilation and had enough punch to topple the Congress-led coalition government in Goa because of the involvement of several ministers in the mining scam, which he has pegged at Rs.25,000 crore.

“Iron ore worth Rs.25,000 crore has been illegally extracted and sent from Goa

during last five years,” said Parrikar, who headed the PAC probe into illegal mining in Goa.

“We are painstakingly collecting every bit of evidence so that our report can stand scrutiny,” he said, adding that the party was not against legal mining in Goa.

“What might happen is that because of the illegal mining industry and the government’s inability to arrest illegal ore extraction and export, the entire industry is painted with the same brush. Illegal mining might lead to the end of legal mining in Goa, if it is not curbed,” he said.

Central BJP leaders have said that several cabinet ministers, including Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, are involved in the scam, which they have billed as the biggest mining scandal in the country.

Goa exported 54 million tons of iron ore in the last fiscal from its nearly 100 operational open cast iron ore mines.

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Hrithik among most kissed at Madame Tussauds?

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Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan’s wax figure has reportedly made it to the list of top 10 most kissed statues in London’s Madame Tussauds museum.

Though the museum is yet to make an official statement a source confirms that he has indeed made it to the top 10, adding that last year, actor Shah Rukh Khan had made it to the Top 10 list.

According to the source, at least 20 percent of total kissers are males and the rest are women, mostly under the age of 30.

Hrithik, 37, is the youngest Indian actor to have got himself a wax figure at the prestigious Madame Tussauds. His statue was completed in four months and cost

150,000 pounds, the source said.

Other actors, who have got

their wax statues, are Shah Rukh Khan, 45, Salman Khan, 45 and Amitabh Bachchan, 69.

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Kids can't be carbon copy of parents: Esha (Movie Snippets)

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Being a star child has its own pros and cons, says Esha Deol, the elder daughter of yesteryear stars Dharmendra and Hema Malini.

“I don’t take pressure on myself, people put pressure on me and it’s not just. It could be Abhishek (Bachchan) or

any other star kid. Right from our first film we are compared to our parents, who have done 200 films. Kids can’t be a carbon copy of their father or mother,” Esha told IANS.

But the actress, who was seen in “Tell Me O Khuda”, did point out the finer points of being a star child.

“There is pressure, expectation, comparison but there is also a very nice thing — being a star kid, we are always very protected and no one can mess around,” she added.

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Priyanka Chopra’s recording woes

Priyanka Chopra is excited about her first music album, but she is also tired of spending long hours in the recording studio in Los Angeles.

“I am unbelievably tired…. Long day in the studio.. Standing in the booth for so long is killing my feet.. Phew… Still a while to go…,” Priyanka wrote on microblogging site Twitter.

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I don’t fear failure: Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor has more flops than hits, but

the actress happily embraces failures and feels it’s the secret to success.

“I don’t fear failure because if you don’t fail, you would not know the secret of success,” Sonam told IANS.

“I don’t take praise and I don’t take criticism seriously. I just feel like I need to work hard, improve myself and that I need to keep working towards it,” she added.

Judicial officials seek old pension scheme

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A bench of the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the administrative wing of the high court, the state government and the legal department in connection with a petition filed by judicial officers seeking pension benefits. The notices were issued by the high court bench comprising acting Chief Justice AL Dave and Justice JB Pardiwala.

Judicial magistrates and district judges of the state, who were appointed after April 2005, have sought the high court’s intervention for payment of pension benefits to them as was paid to judicial officers senior to them.

The judges have challenged the resolution passed by the state government substituting the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) with the New Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (NDCPS) for government staff, boards and corporations.

The petitioner, the Gujarat Judicial Service Association (GJSA), has contended that with the introduction of the new scheme, the government has discontinued the provision of pension for retired government servants and judicial officers. The petition further says that as judicial officers are not government employees, they should not be covered by NDCPS but should be eligible for pension under OPS. Around 700 judicial officers are affected by the new scheme.

Anand Yagnik, counsel for GJSA, submitted in the petition that judicial officers

appointed on or prior to the April 1, 2005 are also entitled to the same benefits, amount of gratuity and other allowances as are applicable to judicial

officers appointed earlier.

The petition says that the new scheme is applicable only to the employees of the state government and those appointed on or after April 2005. “The same is sought to be made applicable to judicial officers also and, due to misconception, it has been learnt that the offices of the Principal District and Sessions judge are insisting on the implementation of the NDCPS,” the petition says.

It also points out that judges of the same cadre who were in the same select list but had received their appointment letter prior to April 2005 are governed by OPS while those appointed after this date are governed by NDCPS.

The petition further states that judicial officers are not employees of the state government. They are judicial officers whose wages and benefits were fixed by the Shetty and Padmanabhan commissions. They had made a representation to the government but nothing came of it, the petition states.

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KBC winner Sushil Kumar's family fears his abduction

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The family and friends of Sushil Kumar, who became the first contestant to win Rs5 crore on Kaun Banega Crorepati, are fearing his abduction. But the Bihar Police says the

apprehension doesn’t hold much ground.

In Motihari, Sushil’s n

ative town, there are rumours doing the rounds that fearing abduction, his family has been reluctant to disclose the date of his much-awaited arrival from Mumbai.

The hundreds of visitors at his house have been told by his family that due to security reasons nothing is certain about his arrival.

Sushil’s elder brother Sunil did not rule out the possibility of abduction attempts by criminal gangs and anti-social elements. “Nothing can be ruled out,” he said.

Sushil’s close friend Jitendra Singh said the family was afraid. “It is well known that Motihari and its neighbouring areas are notorious for extortion and abduction for ransom. The family’s fear is natural.”

However, Motihari Superintendent of Police Ganesh Kumar said there was no threat of abduction. “Fear of abduction is baseless if there is any” he said.

Sushil Kumar, a computer operator and tutor who earns Rs.6,000 per month, went on to win the top prize in the show hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

The 27-year-old is married and lives in a big joint family with five brothers, five nieces and a nephew in East Champaran district.

Marine firm pays up after DRI rap

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The Directorate

of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Jamnagar, on Wednesday detected evasion of customs duty by a Mumbai-based marine company. The company is said to have accepted its mistake and paid the duty immediately. Interestingly, the evasi

on of duty which was detected on Wednesday took place two years back when the company had imported a machine for its operations at Sikka port in Jamnagar.

Sources said that, a day earlier, DRI officials in Jamnagar had seized a barge of the company (identified as Samson Maritime Ltd) after they found that the company had dodged customs officials two years back.

The company which offers various underwater services, including repair and maintenance of merchant vessels and offshore oil field contractors among others, had bought a machine (‘plotting platform’) that it claimed was a barge used to transport goods from the shore to the ships.

Sources said that no customs duty is charged on import of barges. The company had claimed that the plotting platform was a barge only to avoid customs duty.

Sources in the DRI said that on the basis of specific information, officials had detected the ‘mis-declaration’ made by the company two years back about the plotting platform. The value of the machine is Rs5 crore for which Rs50 lakh had to

be paid as customs duty. Sources said that after the seizure by the DRI, the company, which is run by a couple of board members, had paid the duty immediately.

Over 5,000 children raped, another 1,408 murdered in 2010: Report

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As many as 5,484 children were sexually assaulted and 1,408 others killed in different parts of the country last year, according to a government report.

Giving a gloomy picture about the crimes committed against children, the latest Natio

nal Crime Records Bureau

data says 10,670 children were also kidnapped or abducted during the year in various states and Union territories.

In Uttar Pradesh, 315 children were killed while 1,182 children were sexually assaulted in Madhya Pradesh during the period — the highest in the two categories of crimes.

There were 211 incidents of murder of children in Maharashtra, another 200 such cases in

Bihar and 124 victims in Madhya Pradesh, it said.

Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh recorded 747, 451 and 446 cases of sexual assault respectively in the last year. Similarly, 382 and 369 such incidents came to light in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

In Delhi, 29 children were murdered and 304 others were raped in 2010.

The national capital has reported the highest number of kidnapping of children in the country — 2,982, followed by Bihar (1,359), Uttar Pradesh (1,225), Maharashtra (749), Rajasthan (706), Andhra Pradesh (581) and Gujarat (565).

Is anyone listening, ask hapless Manipur residents as blockade continues

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For some, it has become a way of life. As the economic blockade in Manipur crossed an unprecedented 90 days, its residents continue to wait for a miraculous breakthrough, even as the situation has only become worse – with prices of essential commodities touching the sky and health services worsening.

“The situation has only become worse,” said

a worried KH Phalin, managing director of the Shija hospital in Manipur. “Despite our best efforts,

we have had to turn away seriously ill patients because of lack of life saving drugs and oxygen cylinders.”

“It’s a helpless situation and a real emergency,” Phalin, who is a surgeon in one of the state’s biggest private hospitals, told IANS.

According to Phalin, Manipur does not have a medical gas plant of its own and relies on the nearby state of Assam. As a result of the stir, the price of oxygen cylinder has therefore gone up – by four-five times.

Ever since the blockade began Aug 1, the price of fuel and household commodities have also shot up. The blockade, activist Madhu Chandra says, has “unleashed” the black market.

“There is a general scarcity of goods, but most of the things are available, but only at higher prices. Fuel for instance – it will be announced that petrol will be available from 7 am tomorrow and from midnight people start queuing up their vehicles outside the fuel station,” Chandra said.

“Next morning, you will get the fuel, but after about two hours they will say that it’s over. However, if you go to the market, you will get fuel, but at a higher price. It means that the black marketers are getting their supply and exploiting the people,” he added.

So, while in other states, the price of petrol is around Rs67 a litre, in Manipur it is being sold at around Rs200 in the black market. An LPG cylinder can cost anywhere between Rs1,800-2,000. Then again, a kilo of potatoes will cost you around Rs40-50 and onions at Rs60-70.

“But people have to eat. They can’t die of hunger. So they have to buy,” said Manisha Singha, a student.

“At my home, we have stopped using gas cylinder because it’s just so precious! It’s like we have gone back in time and use firewood. We also try and make do with home grown vegetables and fish from the local pond,” she added.

“I wonder how long will this continue. I just want my life to go back to normal,” added Singha’s younger brother aged 10, Raju.

Probably, the only time when the state forgot about their daily struggles, was when Manipur celebrated one of its biggest festivals, Ningol Chakouba, Friday.

While the mood was celebratory – and further complimented by the ready availability of fish, an important ingredient of the festivities – many had to tone down their celebrations because of the steep prices of other items.

The blockade was called by the Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) in demand that the Sadar Hills sub-division in the Naga-dominated Senapati district in northern Manipur be upgraded as a full-fledged district.

The United Naga Council, the apex body of Nagas in Manipur, has also been organising a counter-road blockade in all Naga-inhabited areas in northern Manipur, demanding that these areas should not be carved out without their consent.

As the people of the state continue to suffer in this tussle, union Home Minister P Chidambaram is expected to visit the state Nov 2-3.”I hope a breakthrough is achieved soon. People’s medical bills have gone up, because hospitals are charging more for treatment, which they too can’t help. I constantly pray that my family or friends don’t become casualties to this blockade, like others have. Is anyone listening?,” said Chandni Jain, a student of Delhi University, who hails from Imphal.

China defines terrorism to win global support

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BEIJING (AP) — China‘s legislature authorized new guidelines Saturday to define and combat terrorism, inching closer to international practices as the nation grapples with a sporadically violent rebellion in Central Asian border lands.

The resolution clearly sets China’s legal definition of terrorism and the steps for formally declaring groups and individuals terrorists and for freezing their assets. The measure should help law enforcement prosecute terrorists differently from other criminals and to promote international cooperation on terrorism, said Li Shouwei, a

criminal law expert for the legislature.

“Our country faces a real threat from terrorist activities, and the long-term, complex and sharp counterterrorism struggle is increasingly prominent,” Li told reporters after the legislative session.

Separatist sentiment among Uighurs, a Turkic and traditionally Muslim ethnic group, in China’s western Xinjiang region has occasionally erupted in riots, bombings and other acts of violence. Despite pouring in billions of dollars in investment and the migration of millions of Han Chinese into the largely poor, remote territory, China has been unable to squelch the violence. A raid on a police station and an arson-stabbing attack took place in July.

Many attacks seem unsophisticated and directed against symbols of Chinese government power, like court houses or troop barracks. The government and some security experts say that the violence is becoming more indiscriminate and is being carried out by militants trained and based across the border in Pakistan and with possible links to other radical Islamic groups.

“Increasingly the Chinese government has realized it must work with international partners to fight the existing terrorist threat to China,” said Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism expert at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

While Beijing has sought for much of the past decade to link the situation in Xinjiang with the broader U.S.-led efforts to fight jihadist groups, Chinese methods have often undercut its quest for wider support. Instead of prosecuting Uighurs as terrorists, authorities have preferred to accuse them of “endangering national security,” charges frequently used against political dissidents.

Beijing has also restricted the practice of Islam and bandied the terrorist label against the Dalai Lama and supporters of the Tibetan Buddhist leader who oppose Chinese rule.

In a measure of its uneasiness with Beijing, the U.S. government refused to turn over Uighurs captured in Afghanistan and interned at Guantanamo Bay, though it repatriated the captured nationals of many other countries.

Pakistan, which abuts Xinjiang and is a long-term ally of China, generally assists Beijing in trying to clamp down on militant Uighur separatists. But the most radical groups, the Turkistan Islamic Party and its East Turkistan Islamic Movement offshoot, operate in Pakistan’s tribal areas where Islamabad is unable or unwilling to act.

Gunaratna, the terrorism expert, said Beijing realizes it needs intelligence from Gulf coast countries, Germany and

others to better deal with the Uighur threat.

The terrorism resolution is intended to bridge gaps between China and other countries. It defines terrorism as an act whose “goal is to create terror in society, harm public security or threaten national institutions and international organizations and by using violence, sabotage, intimidation and other methods to cause or intend to cause human casualties, great loss to property, harm to public infrastructure, chaos to the social order and other severe social damage.”

Li, the criminal law expert, said the definition roughly aligned with those of other countries. Agencies involved in counterterrorism will apply that definition to determine which groups or individuals should be placed on terrorist lists, and once listed the government will freeze their assets, according to the resolution.

More importantly, Li said, the resolution helps to make sure that terrorists are charged as such and not with other crimes — an apparent reference to the prevailing practice of using state security charges instead of terrorism.

“By defining terrorist activities more clearly in regulations, it makes it easier to distinguish in practice terrorist crimes from other crimes,” Li told reporters.

The measure itself is unlikely to end all differences. A host of government agencies, Communist Party bodies and the military are involved in counterterrorism and Xinjiang. Li suggested that differences among competing bodies meant that “the time is not mature for enacting a full counterterrorism law.”

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Japan to offer nuclear plant technology to India

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forward on a deal for Tokyo to provide nuclear plant technology to India despite widespread worries about safety after the March 11 disaster triggered by a massive tsunami.

Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba told reporters Saturday that the agreement was reached in a meeting in Tokyo with his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna to move forward on the nuclear plant deal.

The government has been checking on the safety of nuclear power plants in Japan after the March 11 tsunami destroyed backup generators and sent three reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant into meltdown.

Congress accuses Mayawati of embezzling funds

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Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Mayawati and her administration are holding press conferences as a symbol of guilt regarding grave charges of embezzlement of funds in relation to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).

“The Uttar Pradesh administration is also protesting too much, indeed protesting as a symbol of guilt, regarding the very grave charges of embezzlement and siphoning in relation to NREGA. It is no point holding press conferences to tell you that the union Minister’s letter reached the press first and the chief minister later,” Singhvi said.

“This is an irrelevant ‘shooting the messenger’ tactic. Apart from telling you such trivia, the response

of the Uttar Pradesh government is not able to convincingly refute a single figure, because the allegation is again based on nitty-gritty details,” he added.

Commenting on the high crime rate in the state, Singhvi said: “Uttar Pradesh accounts for upto 33 percent of the total crime registered in the entire country.”

” The national crime record bureau released for 2010 puts the crime rate as the highest in Uttar Pradesh. I am not taking you to the details but roughly 33 percent plus of all crimes registered in the county are registers in Uttar Pradesh,” said Singhvi.

“Uttar Pradesh has flourished in all the wrong areas because of the special kindness of this administration and thus Chief Minister. It has flourished in governmental apathy, it has prospered because the Chief Minister has supported wrongdoings; so it has prospered in wrongdoings; bureaucratic nepotism is encouraged and supported by the political bosses of Uttar Pradesh,” said Singhvi. (ANI)

Rajaratnam paid $63 million in penalties – lawyer

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:01:56 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Convicted hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam has already paid more than $63 million in penalties, ordered by the judge who sentenced him two weeks ago for insider trading, one of his lawyers said on Friday in New York federal court.

Rajaratnam, 54, is going to prison for 11 years — the longest sentence recorded for an insider-trading case — as the central figure in a broad government crackdown using FBI phone taps. He was convicted by a jury in May.

The lawyer, William White, was arguing before a different Manhattan federal court judge on Friday over what civil penalties the Galleon Group founder should now pay to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the government’s market regulator.

Without disclosing Rajaratnam’s net worth, White said that since the Oct. 13 criminal sentencing proceeding, his client had forfeited more than $53 million to the government and paid a $10 million fine in addition.

The SEC is now seeking an additional $96.4 million in civil penalties, an SEC lawyer told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff on Friday.

Rakoff said he would consider Rajaratnam’s ability to pay in making his decision about the dollar amount of civil penalties.

“I’m not a big fan of symbolic gestures,” he said. “I’d like there to be a reasonable possibility that it gets paid.”

Rajaratnam is a multimillionaire whose Galleon hedge fund managed $7 billion at its peak.

Rajaratnam’s lawyers believe the punishments handed down by Judge Richard Holwell in the criminal case were sufficient.

“The thrust of our argument is that it would be appropriate to seek civil penalties if not for a criminal case where the punishment was so significant here,” White said in

court.

Rakoff said he would make a ruling on the civil penalties by Nov. 7. He said during the hearing that the insider-trading statutes were written so

that “you will lose your shirt if you are caught,” and “you are going to pay severely in monetary terms.”

The two sides agree that Rajaratnam is liable in the parallel civil enforcement case, but Rakoff must decide for what amount. He said that under the law, he can impose penalties of $33 million, or double or triple that amount.

The regulator’s counsel, Valerie Ann Szczepanik, told the judge that Rajaratnam should pay civil penalties for years of insider-trading, and noted that he lied to the SEC in a 2007 deposition. She said that he then “went back to Galleon and continued his insider trading.”

The case is SEC v Galleon Management et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-08811

(Reporting by Grant McCool; Editing by Gary Hill)

NATO: 30 insurgents killed in eastern Afghanistan

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — I

nsurgents attacked a convoy of Afghan and international troops on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that left about 30 militants dead, NATO said.

The joint Afghan-international force called for air support during the firefight in Shinwar district of Nangarhar province, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said. No other information was disclosed and it is unclear whether any Afghan or coalition forces viagra for sale were killed or wounded.

NATO forces in Afghanistan have concentrated on Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan in the past several years, but more recently have shifted their focus to the east along the border with Pakistan.

In the south, a roadside bomb killed NATO service member in Kandahar province, the same region where the U.S.-led

alliance repelled a coordinated Taliban attack on a U.S.-run civilian and military base a day earlier, NATO said without providing further details.

The death raises to 480 the number of coalition forces killed in Afghanistan so far this year.

Earlier, the U.S.-led alliance said its troops, in tandem with Afghan police, repulsed on Thursday a Taliban attack on a camp in Kandahar that is home to NATO troops, including Americans, and a provincial reconstruction team.

NATO said one Afghan interpreter was killed in the attack, while one American civilian contractor and two Afghan security guards were wounded. Five NATO service members also were lightly wounded, the alliance said.

The Taliban launched the assault from a compound across from the camp, firing rocket-propelled grenades, NATO said.

Two car bombs went off as Afghan police were clearing the compound, NATO said, but no one was hurt in the blast. The buildings had been rigged with explosives, and NATO said its forces fired Hellfire missiles at the compound, killing all four attackers.

Kandahar, and much of the south, had long been seen as a Taliban stronghold, but Afghan and coalition forces have made significant gains in the area and the insurgents have since shifted their operations further east and to some northern provinces.

NATO said the presence of car bombs at the site indicated the insurgents had a plan, which they were unable to execute, and that it had expected the Taliban to launch such an attack before the onset of winter, when the violence and attacks tend to abate.

In other incidents across the country, a civilian car struck a roadside bomb early Friday in Nangarhar province’s Khogyani district, killing two men, a woman and a child, said district chief Mohammad Hassan.

Libya's Saif al-Islam bids to escape father's fate

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is expecte

d to try to surrender to the International Criminal Court or seek refuge in a friendly African country as he races to escape his father’s fate.

The Hague-based ICC said on Friday the 39-year-old had been in touch. It urged him to turn himself in, warning it could order a mid-air interception if he and his mercenary guards tried to flee by plane from his desert hideout for a safe haven.

The ICC’s comments offered some corroboration of reports from Tripoli’s new National Transitional Council (NTC) leaders and African neighbours that he has taken refuge with Tuareg nomads in the borderlands between Libya and Niger.

“Through intermediaries, we have informal contact with Saif,” ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement.

“We have learnt through informal channels that there is a group of mercenaries who are offering to move Saif to an African (state) not party to … the ICC. The Office of the Prosecutor is also exploring the possibility to intercept any plane within the air space of a state party in order to make an arrest.”

In Beijing on Saturday, Moreno-Ocampo said Saif al-Islam was saying he would prove he was innocent of alleged crimes against humanity.

NTC officials told Reuters earlier this week that monitoring of satellite calls and other intelligence indicated Saif al-Islam was considering turning himself in to the ICC, and trying to arrange an aircraft to get him there and out of reach of NTC fighters, in whose hands Muammar Gaddafi was killed a week ago.

DESERT FRIENDS

However, surrender is only one option. The Gaddafis made friends with desert tribes in Niger, Mali and other poor former French colonies in West Africa, as well as farther afield in countries like Zimbabwe and Sudan, some of them also recipients of largesse during the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, a self-styled African “king of kings”.

France, a key backer of February’s revolt, reminded Africans of obligations to hand over the surviving ICC indictees – former intelligence chief

Abdullah al-Senussi and Saif al-Islam.

“We don’t care whether he goes on foot, by plane, by boat, by car or on a camel, the only thing that matters is that he belongs in the ICC,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero. “We don’t have many details, but the sooner the better.”

Niger, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso, a swathe of arid states to the south of Libya, are all signatories to the treaty that set up the ICC, established to give a permanent international tribunal for crimes against humanity after ad hoc bodies set up for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone.

“If we reach agreement, logistical measures for his transfer will be taken,” ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said. “There are different scenarios, depending on what country he is in.”

Without its own police force, the ICC depends on cooperation from member states, which do not include world powers the United States, Russia and China.

Algeria, which took in Saif al-Islam’s mother, sister, brother Hannibal and half-brother Mohammed, is not a signatory. Nor are Sudan or Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

AFRICAN MERCENARIES

As well as enjoying protection from Tuareg allies who traditionally provided close security for the Gaddafis, Saif al-Islam may still be in the company of mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa, including possibly South Africa, NTC officials say.

A South African newspaper, in an unconfirmed report, said South African mercenaries were working to fly him out.

A bodyguard who saw Saif al-Islam as he fled last week from one of the Gaddafi clan’s last bastions near the capital told Reuters that he seemed “nervous” and “confused”. He escaped even though his motorcade was hit by a NATO air strike as it left Bani Walid on Oct. 19, the day before his father died in Sirte.

Three of Saif al-Islam’s brothers were killed in the war. Another, Saadi, has found refuge in Niger.

The arrest or surrender of Saif al-Islam would bring a new prominence for the nine-year-old ICC, whose highest profile suspect to date is Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who remains defiantly in office, defended by many fellow Africans.

Following the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, most probably at the hands of fighters who filmed themselves battering cialis online pharmacy and abusing him, Western allies of Libya’s new leaders urged them to impose respect for human rights.

NTC leaders would like to run their own trials, but acknowledge that their writ barely runs in the deep south.

Their NATO allies, now winding up a mission that backed the revolt, have expressed little enthusiasm for hunting a few individuals across a vast tract of empty continent — though French troops based in West Africa might be best placed to step in with transport if Saif al-Islam did choose to surrender.

The ICC’s Moreno-Ocampo said in his statement: “If he surrenders to the ICC, he has the right to be heard in court, he is innocent until proven guilty. The judges will decide.

“If the judges decide that Saif is innocent, or has served his sentence, he can request the judges to send him to a different country as long as that country accepts him.”

Saif al-Islam was once seen as a liberal reformer, architect of a rapprochement with Western states on whom his father waged proxy guerrilla wars for decades. But he responded with belligerent rhetoric after the revolt erupted in Libya.

The ICC accuses him of hiring mercenaries to carry out a plan, worked out with his father and Senussi, to kill unarmed protesters inspired by “Arab Spring” uprisings elsewhere.

WARM WELCOME

Niger’s government in the capital Niamey has vowed to meet its ICC commitments. But 750 km (400 miles) north in a region where cross-border allegiances among Tuareg nomads often outweigh national ties, the picture looks different.

For now, some of the tens of thousands of people who eke out a living in the deepest Sahara, an expanse roamed by smugglers and nomadic herders, say there would be a welcome for the younger Gaddafi.

“We are ready to hide him wherever needed,” said Mouddour Barka, a resident of Agadez in northern Niger. “We are telling the international community to stay out of this business and our own authorities not to hand him over — otherwise we are ready to go out on to the streets and they will have us to deal with.”

Mohamed Anako, president of Agadez region, the size of France, said: “I am ready to welcome him in. For me his case is quite simply a humanitarian one.

“Libya and Niger are brother countries and cousins … so we will welcome him in.”

(Additional reporting by Sara Webb and Aaron Gray-Block in Amsterdam, Samia Nakhoul in London, Mark John in Dakar, Ibrahim Diallo in Agadez and Barry Malone in Tripoli; Editing by Myra MacDonald and Ralph Gowling)

‘TV show is my most ambitious project’: Actor Aamir Khan

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‘TV show is my most ambitious project’: Aamir Khan

After bollywood Star Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, now it’s Actor Aamir Khan’s turn to make his debut on the buy cialis

lass=”IL_AD”>small screen. As was reported earlier by Businessofcinema.com, the actor will be seen in a yet-to-be titled show which he calls his “most ambitious project”.

The production of the show is yet to begin and it will go on air next year. It is being jointly produced by Aamir Khan Productions and Star India.

“This show is my most ambitious project. This began as a dream some three-four years ago. Uday (Shankar of Star) coaxed me with the idea that I should think of dominating television now. That is how the spark ignited. After that meeting I actually started thinking about it passionately,” Khan said.

“I have been offered game shows before, but I didn’t find them very exciting… not that they were not good but personally doing the same thing everyday didn’t excite me much. So that is how I started to think and

brainstorm for an

innovative concept. Moreover, I have realized in all these years that TV is a very strong and powerful medium and I should make use of this platform to reach larger audience,” he added.

The show will bring real stories and emotions of people on the small screen and for the 46-year-old it is a dream come true.

“Honestly I take time to make up my mind and it’s like a dream come true for me. I have been living it and breathing it during all these years,” said Aamir Khan.

Star India CEO Uday Shankar calls it a pan-India show, which will be telecast in 8 different languages.

“It’s a pan-India show. The show has been woven around Aamir, it is his vision. He did not want language to act as a barrier, he said ‘I want all your regional channels for this show’,” Shankar said.

Singer KJ Yesudas to receive lifetime achievement award

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Playback singer KJ Yesudas will receive a lifetime achievement award in November, in honour of completing 50

years of his recording career.

Hibi Eden had earlier suggested that the government must make official the title ‘Ganagandharvan’ to honour KJ Yesudas on the 50th anniversary of his recording career in November. KJ Yesudas will complete 50 years of recording ‘Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham’ in November. That is the first ever song sung by KJ Yesudas for the film Kaalpadukal. Hibi said

in the assembly, “It was Mahakavi G Sankara Kurup who first called him ‘Ganagandharvan’.”

However, Cultural Affairs Minister KC Joseph said that it is impossible to confer the title of Ganagandharvan on Yesudas as Article 18 of the Indian constitution that deals with Abolition of titles clearly says, “No title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the

state.”

KC Joseph said that though the State Government functions under certain limitations, it will confer a lifetime achievement award on Yesudas.

Desi Boyz trailer to release with Ra.One Film

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Eros International will release the

2nd theatrical trailer of Desi Boyz Film with Ra.One on October, 26, 2011.

Desi Boyz movie is direc

ted by debutant

Rohit Dhawan and stars Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangda Singh.

Producer Krishika Lulla said, “We got fabulous feedback to the teaser and hope the response will be as positive towards this trailer too.”

The film is slated to release on 25 November, 2011.

Shah Rukh to chat with Lady Gaga for TV show

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:56:43 +0000

Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s wish to work with Lady Gaga will finally come true when he shoots an exclusive tete-a-tete with

the interna

tional pop icon on her forthcoming India tour.

Shah Rukh Khan, who wanted to collaborate with Gaga for a song for his ambitious project “RA.One”, will chat with her for an hour-long show on UTV Bindass.

The two most famous figures will be in conversation about Gaga’s life, career and her global fan following, among other other things. As many as 25 lucky fans or as Gaga says, ‘monsters’ will get a chance to witness the show live, and even interact with her.

The show will be shown exclusively on UTV Bindass in November.

Gaga, popular for songs like “Poker Face” and “Born This Way”, is flying to India to perform at the F1 after party of the Airtel Grand Prix of India. Her performance at the Jaypee Greens Golf and

Spa Resort in Greater Noida, will be on 30th Oct .

Spice Mobile QT-53 Price in India, Basic QWERTY phone

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Spice Mobiles is coming up with a new Spice QT53 phone featuring QWERTY keypad. Spice QT53 is a Dual SIM GSM phone that supports WAP and GPRS connectivity.

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Weighing 94 grams, the handset is powered by 800 mAh battery for talk-time of up to 7.5 hours and stand-by time of up to 360 hours.

Spice QT-53 price and availability is not known at this time.

New Karbonn KW Price in India, Dual SIM QWERTY Phone

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Karbonn KW is a low price Dual SIM QWERTY phone. This multimedia phone comes with a 2 megapixel camera, FM Radio and multi format audio/video player.

Karbonn KW sports a 2.4 inch display with resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, 259 KB of internal memo

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Weighing 100 gms, the Karbonn KW is powered by Li-Ion 900mAh battery for talk time of up to 2.5 hours.

Karbonn KW

is now available for Rs.2,650.

Nokia Asha 201 Price in India, Affordable Music Phone with QWERTY Keypad

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:42:59 +0000

Nokia Asha 201 is music phone recently launched from Nokia. Nokia Asha 201 Price in India will be Rs. 4200 approx. The Nokia Asha 201 sports a 2.4-inch display and a QWERTY keypad.

The new Asha 201 is an affordable phone from Series 40. The No

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The Nokia Asha 201

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of standby.

Nokia 201 Asha is Bluetooth, WAP, USB port enabled and promises long battery life of up to 7 hours.

Nokia Asha 201 will be available in the last week of December’11 for Rs. 4,200 approx.

Dr. NTR University HS MD Ayurveda Rasasatra Entrance Test Results 2011

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Dr. NTR University of HS MD Ayurveda Rasasatra Entrance Test Results 2011 declared.

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NTR University of Health

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Kashmir University PG Non Prof MEd (Distance Education) One Year Course Exam Result 2011

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Kashmir University has been declared PG (Post Graduate) Non-Professional M.Ed (Master of Education)

(Distance Education) One Year Course examinatio

n results 2011. The examination was held in the month of May / June 2011.

About University of Kashmir

The University of Kashmir is located on the western side of the Dal Lake in the city of Srinagar which lies in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. It was Awarded grade “A” by the NAAC. The University provides good higher education in various subjects in the Faculty of Arts, Languages, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Commerce, Law, Medicine, Dental Surgery, Engineering, Music and Fine Arts, and Non-formal Education. The University provides residential facilities – on a first-come-first-served basis to the teaching and non-teaching staff as well as to students, male and female, in hostels.

For Kashmir University Med (Distance Education) One year Course of May – June, 2011 Result Visit :
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For Kashmir University official website Visit :
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Vidyasagar University BA (3 Yr Deg Hon) Part 2 Results 2011

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Vidyasagar University has declared VU

BA (3 Yr Deg Hon) Part 2 Results 2011.

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The university was established on 29 September 1981 by the Vidyasagar University Act 1981 (West Bengal Act XVIII of 1981) of the state of West Bengal to commemorate Pandit Iswar Chandra Bandyopadhyay , also known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the great educationist and social worker of 19th century Bengal. The University Grants Commission accorded recognition to the university under Section 12 B on

March 1, 1990.

CSMMU BSc Nursing First Profession Results 2011

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Chattrapati Sahuji Maharaja Medical University has declared BSc Nursing 1st Prof. Results 2011.

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Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, is a medical university located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It came into being after the upgrade of King George Medical College into a

university by an act passed by government of Uttar Pradesh on 16 September 2002. King George Medical College was established in 1911.

JNTU MBA Semester Results 2011

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University has declared JNTU MBA Semester Results 2011

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About Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is a university, primarily focused on engineering, located in Hyderabad, India. Founded in 1965 as the Nagarjuna Sagar Engineering College, it was established as a university in 1972 by The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Act,

1972, also combining colleges in Kakinada and Anantapur. In 2008 the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities Act, 2008 split the university back into four universities, Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture & Fine Arts University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada

JNTU MBA Semester Results 2011

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University has declared JNTU MBA Semester Results 2011

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is a university, primarily focused on engineering, located in Hyderabad, India. Founded in 1965 as the

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) MCA Sem Results 2011

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University has JNTU MCA Sem Results 2011.

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is a university, primarily focused on engineering, located in Hyderabad, India. Founded in 1965 as the Nagarjuna Sagar Engineering College, it was established as a university in 1972 by The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Act, 1972, also combining colleges in Kakinada and Anantapur. In 2008 the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities Act, 2008 split

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Kurukshetra University M.Tech/MSc/B.Pharmacy/MA Examination Results 2011

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Kurukshetra University has declared MA (Master of Arts) Mass Communication / M.Sc (Master of Science) Geography 1st Year Examination Results 2011.

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M.A. Mass Communications – I year May 2011

For Kurukshetra University Results 2011 Visit :
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About Kurukshetra University

Kurukshetra University was established in 1956 in Kurukshetra in Haryana, India, situated 160 km from Delhi, and member of Association of Commonwealth Universities. The Kurukshetra University

was the dream of the then Punjab Governor, Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, a great Sanskrit scholar, who wanted to set up an institute to promote Indian culture and traditions.

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Kumaun University, Uttranchal NSS Exam Result 2011

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Kumaun University, Uttranchal has declared NSS Examination Result 2011.

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The University of Kumaun is the premier state university of Uttarakhand and is known for its high standards in teaching and

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HP Board Matriculation (Class 10) Supplementary September 2011 Results

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Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE), Dharamshala has declared Matriculation (Class 10) Supplementary Examination Results 2011cheap viagra pills

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Kashmir University BE Lateral Entry Entrance Test 2011 Admit Card

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Kashmir University has been issued

the Admit Cards for BE Lateral Entry Entrance Test 2011. The BE Lateral Entry Entrance Test 2011 is scheduled to be conducted on 19, October 2

011 at 11.00 am. The venue for the entrance test will be the University’s Main Campus, Srinagar. The

entrance test is being conducted to select eligible candidates for admission into BE (Bachelor of Engineering) Lateral Entry programme, to be offered in the session 2011.

For Kashmir University BE Lateral Entry Entrance Test 2011 Admit Card Visit : http://egov.uok.edu.in/courseinfo/beforms/prelogin/admitcard.aspx

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F1 world welcomes India

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Several international

teams have warmly welcomed India, the newest destination in Formula One, to the world of the fastest sport.

The response was positive and encouraging from the international teams at the official press conference here on Frida

“For Renault, India is a strategic market for the future. We have three strategic markets — India, Russia and Brazil — in the future. So, to race here is very important. We are building a huge factory in Chennai and it is a pleasure to race here and I hope that the engine will be, probably, winning,” said Renault managing director Jean Francois Caubet.

Franz Tost of Toro Rosso stressed the need for F1 to travel to new promising markets like India.

Williams’ Adam Parr described India as a spectacular country. “As a sport and being able to play here is important if we are to be a global sport.”

For Indian-turned-Austrian and co-owner of Sauber, Monisha Kaltenborn, coming back to the country of her roots was a special experience. “I am very excited to have this now between the job and the country where I come from,” she said.

Monisha complimented the Indian media for the extensive coverage of F1 in the build-up to the race’s debut in the country.

Vijay Mallya, the team principal and managing director of home team Sahara Force India, said the Indian Grand Prix was a dream come true for him. “Over 30 years ago, I drove my Ensign F1 car here and I never thought I would ever see an F1 car race around India.

“When I acquired Spyker, I renamed it Force India and there was a lot of strategy and meaning behind it as it was meant to put India on the F1 map,” he said.

Mallya said the International Automobile Federation (FIA) General Assembly, to be held in Delhi from December 5-9, would also boost the sport in the country.

Steve Jobs died peacfully By Family

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SAN FRANCISCO: The family of Apple Inc co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs issued this statement Wednesday in response to his death:

“Steve died peacefully today surrounded

by his family.”

“In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in

his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.

“We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.”

Steve Jobs dies: Arabs embrace Steve Jobs and the Syrian connection

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:49:21 +0000

LONDON: While the world mourned the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs in California, many Syrians were quick to claim the computer genius as one of their own on Thursday through a little-known connection to his biological father.

Jobs, who died of

cancer at the age of 56 on Wednesday, was given up for adoption soon after his birth in San Francisco to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian-born father, Abdulfattah “John” Jandali.

Jandali, 80, a former academic, has told how Schieble’s “tyrant” father refused to allow his daughter to marry a Syrian and so the baby was adopted by a married couple from California, Paul and Clara Jobs.

Only in recent years did Jandali, born in the Syrian city of Homs and latterly an executive of the Boomtown Casino in Reno, Nevada, realise that the Apple chief was his son.

“Without telling me, Joanne upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without anyone knowing, including me,” Jandali told the New York Post in an interview in August. “She did not want to bring shame onto the family and thought this was best for everyone.”

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With Jandali out of the picture at the outset, many Syrians were unaware of the connection between Apple and their homeland until recently. But they were quick to embrace Jobs when news broke of his death.

Users of the social networking site Twitter were also quick

to draw parallels with Syria’s uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which has cost more than 2,900 lives, by a U.N. count.

“The wrong Syrian died today,” said one Twitter user, echoing sentiments of the Syrian leader’s bitter opponents.

“A sick world we live in when Steve Jobs has to die of cancer and Bashar al-Assad remains Syria’s cancer,” another opposition supporter said on the website.

Others hailed Jobs, whose Syrian links have been little mentioned until now, as “a great Arab American” and “the most famous Arab in the world”.

In Syria, some people, who all declined to give their full names, said Jobs would have been unlikely to have had such a stellar career if he had lived in the land of his father’s birth, where the Assad family has ruled for 41 years.

“I felt sad, not because he is of Syrian origin but because we will miss the inventor and his inventions,” said Rana, a 21-year-old student. “But I think that if he had stayed in Syria, he would not have invented anything.”

“This is sad and we will miss a lot of his achievements, but the company will continue,” said Ali, a website designer. “If he had lived and died in Syria, he would not have accomplished anything.”

A 28-year-old Damascus resident, who gave his name as Ahmed, said he was happy to learn that Jobs had Syrian antecedents, although he was unable to afford any of Apple’s products.

“I think that if he had lived in Syria he would not have been able to achieve any of this, or else he would have chosen to leave Syria,” Ahmed said.

Other Syrians regretted that Jobs had no roots of his own in his father’s homeland.

“The sad thing is that he had lived and died abroad, and humanity lost him,” said Maneh, a 27-year-old bank employee, who posted an image of the Apple founder on his Facebook page.

Sachin Tendulkar New Home Photo : Perry Cross Road, Bandra

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According to reports, the villa has a spacious parking lot in the basement and the first floor will have two large guest rooms and sitting area, while the master bedroom and children’s rooms will be on the second and third floors respectively with a swimming pool on the top floor.

P Chidambaram Offers Resignation after meeting Sonia Gandhi

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Breaking News of the moment comes from New Delhi where Union Home P Chidambaram has offered to resign from his post after his meeting with C

ongress president Sonia Gandhi.

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with Sonia Gandi, P Chidambaram explained his point of view on the 2G spectrum allocation issue and reportedly told Sonia he would not want to embarrass the party.

An official Finance Ministry document, accessed by RTI activist Vivek Garg, has cast doubts over the role of Chidambaram, who was then finance minister, in the January 2008 decision of former telecom minister A Raja to issue 2G spectrum licences.

On March 25, 2011, Dr PGS Rao, Deputy Director in the Finance Ministry, sent an office memorandum to Vini Mahajan, Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, regarding allocation and pricing of 2G spectrum. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee reportedly approved the note after personally inspecting the 11-page document.

The note categorically stated that the Department of Telecom (DoT) would have been forced to cancel the 2G licences doled out by Raja, had the Ministry of Finance under Chidambaram, stuck to its original demand for auctioning the initial ‘start-up spectrum’ of 4.4 megahertz each allotted to the 2008 licensees.

Malaika Arora Khan to do item song in Sajid Nadiadwala’s Housefull 2

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Actress Malaika Arora Khan will scorch the screen in a song for Sajid Nadiadwala’s Housefull 2 directedHelp Me! I’m In Love With An Addict

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Back to recreate the Chayya Chayya and Munni Badnam Hui magic, the number will be choreographed by Farah Khan.

Says a source, “This will be the third song that Malaika and Farah will work on together. They’ve done Chayya Chayya and Munni Badnam, both of which were chartbusters of the year. They are going

to outdo themselves with the Housefull 2 number.”

Director Sajid Khan says, “For me Malaika is the best choice for my item song as there is no one better than her for the concept. She and Farah have a track record of blockbuster songs together.”

“Malaika is like family to me and I’m confident its going to be the biggest song of next year,” adds Nadiadwala.

Lagaan creates Time repository list of tip 25 sports films

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Bollywood film Lagaan (Land Tax), that won an Oscar nomination, has been enclosed in a list of a 25 best sports cinema by Time magazineviagra 100mg

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Starring Aamir Khan, Lagaan tells a story of peasants who plea their British rulers to a diversion of cricket in sequence to shun a punitive tax.

Time repository pronounced it was a “longest and a many fascinating loser sports film ever”.

The film is one of a biggest Bollywood hits of all time.

Lagaan’s song was stoical by Indian composer AR Rahman, who also won Oscars for his soundtrack to 2009′s multi-award-winning Slumdog Millionaire.

“From a thunderclap in a initial torrential deluge – a evidence for

rebellious dancing – to a climactic object on a smiling faces of millions of viewers, this Bollywood epic is means for fun of meteorological proportions,” Time repository pronounced of a 224-minute film.

Yogi Vemana University MBA IV Sem Exam (HRM) Result May 2011

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Yogi Vemana University, Andhra Pradesh has declared MBA IV Sem Exam (HRM) Result May 2011

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Yogi Vemana University is a newly established University in Kadapa district with West Campus at Idupulapaya. Earlier, it was a part of Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. It is named after a great thinker, philosopher, and social reformer Yogi Vemana,

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UGC NET Result December 2009 at www.ugc.ac.in

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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) conducts the UGC-CSIR NET for other Science subjects, namely, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences

and Earth Atmospheric Ocean & Planetary Sciences jointly with the UGC. The tests are conducted twice in a year generally in the months of June and December. For candidates who desire to pursue research, the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) is available for five years subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. UGC has allocated a number of fellowships to the universities for the candidates who qualify the test for JRF. The JRFs are awarded to the meritorious candidates from among the candidates qualifiying for eligibility for lectureship in the NET. JRFs are available only to the candidates who opt for it in their application forms.

Jiwaji University Gwalior D.H.C.P.(Ophthalmic Assistant) Exam Dec 2010 Results

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Jiwaji University (JU) is an affiliating university situated in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. The name comes from that of George Jivajirao Scindia of Gwalior. The university was established on May 23, 1964 and Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan, the President of India, laid the foundation stone of the University Campus on December 11, 1964. It is fully accredited by the Indian government.

NIOS Date Sheet for Class X and Class XII October 2011 Exam

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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has declared the Time Table (Date Sheet) for Secondary (Class X) and Sr. Secondary (Class XI

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Students who have registered and wish to appear for the examination to be held in October 2011 can check their Subject / Class wise Date Sheet by logging in to the aforementioned website.

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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) formerly known as National Open School (NOS) was established in November,1989 as an autonomous organisation in pursuance of National Policy on Education 1986 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD), Government of India. NIOS is providing a number of Vocational, Life Enrichment and community oriented courses besides General and Academic Courses at Secondary and Senior Secondary level.

Mysore University M.Sc Botany II Semester Exam Result June/July 2011

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Mysore University, Karnataka has declared M.Sc Botany II Semester Result 2011.

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Kumbakonam tragedy: plea for higher compensation rejected

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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea seeking direction to Tamil Nadu government to grant higher compensation to the victims of the Kumbakonam fire tragedy on July 16, 2004.

A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma dismis

sed the writ petition filed by Kumbakonam Fire Tragedy Victims Association, observing that on the facts of this case nothing more could be done by the State government.

Justice Bhandari told the counsel for the petitioner that besides payment of compensation, the State had filed its response giving details and explaining the steps it had taken after the incident. When counsel said that only Rs. 1 lakh was paid in the case of death and Rs. 25,000 in the case of serious injuries and Rs. 10,000 for minor injuries as ex gratia payment, Justice Bhandari said “it is true no amount of compensation is adequate for life. But they [State] have done what they could have done.”

The petitioner submitted that despite a finding by the inquiry commission that the fire was due to the negligence of the school staff and criminal insensitivity of the State Education department, only ex-gratia amounts had been paid to the victims and no compensation had been paid. It pointed out that no steps had been taken to rehabilitate the injured students and further no treatment like plastic/corrective surgery was provided to the injured.

The petitioner said the victims were not in a position to live a normal healthy life as they could not get moral/financial support from the government agencies at the appropriate time. The petitioner sought a direction to the respondents to grant adequate compensation with 12 per cent interest to the families of the victims.

In its response, Tamil Nadu said besides the compensation given by the State, the Centre also sanctioned Rs. 50,000 to the deceased and Rs. 10,000 to the injured. Further the State issued house sites pattas to 54 families, who were neither government servants nor in possession of own house. Textbooks and uniforms were supplied to the surviving children and bicycles burnt during the fire tragedy were replaced.

A memorial at a

cost of Rs. 30,50,000 had been erected with the inscription of names of the deceased children. The State government also provided the best treatment to the seriously injured. The State sought dismissal of the petition.

Actor Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor to wed in 2012

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Ever since Kareena and Saif have gone on record to say that their relationship is for keeps, much is being speculated about their impending marriage.

Speaking to NDTV, Saif revealed that the famous ‘Saif-Kareena’ wedding would take place after the completion of his home production Agent Vinod. Saif, a professional to the core prefers to talk more of his work rather than his love life as he thinks that talking

about his relationship tends to shift focus from films and makes headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Saif, in the interview said, “It (the marriage) is something that I look forward to next year”.

The Censors cut For The Dirty Picture's new trailer

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of the Silk Smitha’s biopic has reportedly been objected by the Censor Board, which has asked the makers to cut certain scenes.

Reports suggest that the officials of the Censor Board felt that the second trailer of The Dirty Picture was too explicit and thus not fit for theatrical or television exhibition, unless it is given an ‘A’ certificate. But the producers wanted U/A rating for the trailer, which would be shown with as many films as possible starting with Shahid Kapoor’s Mausam.

According to reports, the Censor Board objected the lovemaking scene between Vidya Balan and Naseeruddin Shah in the car and certain abusive words in Naseeruddin’s dialogue. In a bid to get U/A certificate, the bosses of The Dirty Picture have taken necessary action to cut them.

However, Balaji Motion Pictures’ CEO, Tanuj Garg has admitted cutting a few scenes. Tanuj says, “The Censor Board felt that a few scenes and words in the trailer might not be appropriate for television and for people watching a U/A film in cinemas. On the other hand, we were clear that we needed a U/A. Hence, we complied with their requests.”

Candice Boucher is a big fan of Aishwarya Rai

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ht=”225″ class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-49308″ />Playboy model Candice Boucher, who is debuting in Bollywood with with the movie Aazaan, has revealed that she is a big fan of actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The star says that she used to watch Indian movies on TV in South Africa, but she hardly remembers any actors except Aish.

In an interview with

IANS, Candice Boucher said, “I did know about Bollywood before doing this film because while growing up in South Africa, we did have a few Indian movies showcased on the TV. I was aware a little bit about the industry that it’s very colourful and has a lot of music and dance.”

Candice Boucher added, “I don’t remember the names of the film right now, but as far as the actors are concerned, I am a big fan of Aishwarya Rai. She is gorgeous and a great actress too. The fact that she has made a mark not only in Bollywood but also Hollywood, speaks a lot about her. She is beautiful.”

Candice Boucher is all excited about her first Hindi movie Aazaan, which is slated to release on October 14. Actor Sachin Joshi is playing the hero, while Candice appears as a sand artist and Sachin’s love interest in the film. She has all thanks for director Prashant Chadha for giving her the role.

Movie od Ra.One makers issue legal notice to Jewellery brand Agni

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‘Chamak Chalo’ sung by international singer Akon and picturised on the leading lady Kareena Kapoor, has already been leaked online a few months ago. The brand played the song while showcasing their creations on the fourth day of IIJW held last week in Mumbai. While the song was played in the background, actress Amrita Rao along with other leading models walked the ramp showcasing the jewellery of Agni.

T-Series, who own the music rights of Ra.One have sent a legal notice to Agni, asking for a compensation of

R 2 crore. Bhushan Kumar, the head honcho of the music label confirms the news to Mid Day, “Yes, we have sent a legal notice to Agni for using our unreleased song without prior permission. It is an illegal thing to do. We are moving court and suing them for about R 2 crore. One needs to get a license to use any song for a show. However, for an unreleased song you cannot even obtain a license.”

Actress Kanthimathi dead

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=”" width=”636″ height=”623″ />Actor Kanthimathi, an artist known for her powerful performances in Tamil films, passed away here on Friday after a prolonged illness. She was 65.

Irrespective of the character she portrayed,

Ms. Kanthimathi’s performance bore a stamp of authenticity. Her performance in director Bharathiraja’s ‘Padhinaru Vayathinile’, as Mayil’s (actor Sreedevi’s role) mother is a classic example of how she could essay any role in a convincing manner, paying particular attention to dialogue delivery and body language.

Director Bharathiraja attributes her skill to her theatre background and devotion to acting. “She has performed as a child artist and even as a heroine in a couple of films, but somehow was not very active after that… at the time I was writing ‘Padhinaru Vayathinile’, I was looking for someone who could speak the ‘vattara vazhakku’ (local dialect) well, and I could not think of anyone else,” he says.

A native of Manamadurai, she started acting when she was 11 and has acted in nearly 500 films. Her role in films such as ‘Mann Vasanai’, ‘Karagattakkaran’, ‘Muthu’ won acclaim. She received the Kalaimamani Award from the State government.

Top Actress Gandhimathi passed away at 9th Sep 2011

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She passed away at her residence this morning. Gandhimathi has various blockbuster films to her credit, including ‘Walter Vetrivel’, ‘Karakattakaran’ and ‘Chinna Thambi Periya Thambi’.

Gandhimathi has acted in more than 300 films in Tamil and other southern languages. Her performance in ’16 Vayathinilae’ was much appreciated by critics. Those from the film industry are paying a visit to her

residence to offer their condolence to Gandhimathi’s family.

IG offers condolence to Gandhimathi’s family, friends and fans all over.

Anna brigade gets active online for next chapter

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BANGALORE: India Against Corruption (IAC) members are already busy planning the next stage of Anna Hazare’s campaign at Freedom Park.

Anand Yadavad is in touch with other members and a range of people on social networks and emails. “We’ve begun pr

eparing campaign material for the next stage. We would like people to read up on the nuances of the Jan Lokpal bill as well as parliamentary proceedings. Once the material is ready, it will be communicated to all volunteers as well as the massive online community,” says Yadavad.

“I am attending to emails, phone calls and messages on social networking sites and spending three hours every day after work to keep in touch with people,” he added.

Yogesh Devaraj, a full-time IAC member, says they will regroup in the next one or

two weeks and take stock of how the campaign went. “It will be a post-mortem. We will look at where we did well and where we didn’t, and where we need to improve.” Devaraj is interacting with hundreds of people through his social networking account on Facebook. “The page is open everyday. Messages are coming in and we inform people about steps we will take next, when the meetings are, and what people need to do. In three to four weeks, we should be able to have a clear plan ready.”

Devaraj says IAC also plans to mobilize the organisations that have already participated in the first stage of the campaign, like FKCCI, KFCC and Kassia, apart from NGOs, social organisations, schools, colleges and RWAs.

Husband of Madurai mayor arrested in land grab case

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COIMBATORE: P Gopinathan, husband of Madurai Mayor and DMK leader Thenmozhi Gopinathan, was arrested along with his son -in-law Ramesh on Monday in a criminal intimidation case, by Tirupur police from their residence in Madurai. DMK’s Avinashi Union

secretary Swaminathan, who is also an accused in the case, is absconding. Another accused V K Gurusamy is currently in jail.

According to police, Gopinathan and the others are accused of holding Katta Panchayat ( Kangaroo Court) and using criminal intimidation to grab 55.36 acres of land belonging to R Subrahmaniyan and his brother R Mahalingam, textile merchants of Tirupur. As per police estimates,Gopinathan and his cronies had caused a loss of at least Rs 5 crore to the textile merchants by holding a katta panchayat on March 10, 2008.

On December 30, 2006, Subrahmaniyan and Mahalingam entered into a sale agreement with R Eswaran and S Kumar of Thiruchengodu in Namakkal District to sell the 55.36 acres of land for a price of Rs 4.53 crore . An advance of Rs 1.3 crore was also paid. But repeated requests from the complainants failed to persuade Eswaran and Kumar into getting the sale deed executed by paying the balance amount within the stipulated period. The complainants were continuously deceived for over a year.

Instead of paying the rest of money and fulfilling the deed, Eswaran and Kumar conspired with Gopinathan and others to conduct a Katta Panchayat to grab the land from the complainants. They conspired at a hotel in Tirupur on March 10, 2008. The petitioners were summoned to the hotel and they were directed

to obey the dictates from Gopinathan.

Controversial Shanti Bhushan CD genuine: Delhi Police

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is understood to have concluded that the controversial CD purportedly having lawyer Shanti Bhushan’s conversations with political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh is genuine and not fake as alleged.

Sources said i

nvestigators are filing a closure report soon following probe into a complaint filed by Bhushan that the CD was fabricated. A case under section 469 of Indian Penal Code (forgery for the purpose of harming reputation) was registered in mid-April.

They said Amar Singh has told police that the voice in the tapes were his and there was “no tampering” of the audio tapes.

The CD was circulated to media houses in April after a fast by Anna Hazare for a strong Lokpal. Hazare’s close associate Bhushan was named the co-chair of the joint committee to draft Lokpal Bill.

Bhushan had alleged that the CD was a “cut and paste job” to discredit the civil society campaign.

In the CD, Bhushan is allegedly telling Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh that his lawyer-son Prashant can “manage a judge”.

Reacting to the development, Prashant Bhushan told PTI that it appears that some police officials, forensic agency officials, some in government and others have entered into a criminal conspiracy.

“What are they saying about report of CFSL, Chandigarh?” he asked.

The first forensic examination conducted by Delhi Police at CFSL, New Delhi refuted Bhushan’s claims that it was doctored triggering demands for his resignation from the joint committee to draft Lokpal Bill.

“There is continuity in the conversation…Recorded conversation is in continuity, no abrupt change in speech signal has been detected,” the report made by CFSL, Delhi, said.

However, police had not made public the contents of the second forensic examination conducted at CFSL, Chandigarh.

A forensic test at a Hyderabad-based private lab, Truth Labs, by Bhushan claimed that the disc was “doctored”.

The Bhushans had in April got the forensic analysis of CD done by US expert George Papcun and Truth Labs and claimed that the disc has “multiple gaps and signs of electronic editing at very very critical places”.

Bhushan had alleged this showed a “very ominous conspiracy with the blessings of many powerful people including corporates and politicians” to derail judicial proceedings.

He had claimed that “virtually all portions” of the conversations of Yadav in the CD have been “bodily lifted” from the 2006 tapes, which have purported conversations of Amar Singh with various personalities and submitted to Supreme Court by him.

The CD was circulated two days before the first meeting of the joint committee to draft Lokpal Bill on April 16.

After Shanti Bhushan approached police, a case under section 469 of Indian Penal Code (forgery for the purpose of harming reputation) was registered and the CDs were sent for examination.

BJP demands removal of Gujarat governor over Lokayukta appointment in state

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NEW DELHI: Senior leader LK Advani on Tuesday led party MPs from Gujarat protesting outside Parliament House against the appointment of Lokayukta in the state by the governor without consulting the Narendra Modi government and demanded her removal fo

r “bypassing” established norms.

Advani, Haren Pathak and around 15 other BJP MPs from Gujarat protested at the Gandhi statue in Parliament complex against the appointment of RA Mehta as the Lokayukta by governor Kamla Beniwal.

“We are going to meet the President on September 1 or 2 when she returns to the capital. All norms were ignored by the governor like consultation with the chief minister before the appointment or taking the advice of his Cabinet on the issue. The Lokayukta was appointed by the governor bypassing all established norms,” Advani told reporters.

The MPs shouted slogans against the governor demanding her recall. Some of them held placards saying, “Dual policy on Gujarat will not be tolerated”, “Recall Gujarat governor”, “murder of democracy” and “Rajyapal Bhawan has become Congress Bhawan (governor’s House has become Congress Bhawan).

Asked if the BJP would demand Beniwal’s removal as governor, Advani said, “Yes. We are going to meet the President over this.”

In reply to another question, the senior BJP leader said, “It is a very serious matter and we condemn it. It is

an attack on the federal structure of the country. It has never happened before.”

Earlier, BJP gave notices in both Houses of Parliament for suspension of Question Hour to discuss the issue which it claims is violation of Article 163 of the Constitution that states the governor should act according to the advice of the council of ministers.

Rajiv killer's daughter appeals to Sonia

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CHENNAI: As the clamour for clemency for the three Rajiv Gandhi assassins grew, one more voice added strength from a London suburb.

Harithra, the teenaged daughter of Murugan, living in an undisclosed place in the UK, has sent letters to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, appealing to them to forgive her father.

“I can understand Sonia Gandhi’s loss. She is an important leader. Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination is a very big issue. It was a big mistake done by somebody. Her children lost their father. I can understand their feelings, since I was always away from my parents. Sonia madam can understand a daughter’s feelings. I request her to intervene and save my father,” 19-year-old Harithra told TOI over telephone from the UK.

“It is my mother’s dream that I should pursue medicine,” she said. Harithra spoke of her childhood, the trauma of having both parents in prison and her anguish over the imminent execution of her father. Soon after she was informed about the President of India rejecting her father’s clemency plea, she applied for a visa to visit India.

Harithra said, “I never thought that my father’s
mercy petition would be rejected. I request the Tamil Nadu CM to intervene. Everybody calls her ‘Amma’. Even I wish to call her Amma. I believe she can understand a daughter’s crisis. I feel she is a saviour,” she said, adding a plea “Amma, please save my father”.

Thanking everyone for raising their voice to save the three Rajiv assassins from the gallows, Harithra said,

“Tamils living in the UK have also called me and consoled me. They will take out a rally soon and hold

a demonstration in front of the Indian high commission here.” Harithra was born in January 1992, eight months after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. She was picked up along with Murugan few days later in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1992. While the SC confirmed the death sentences given to four of the accused – Murugan, Nalini, Santhan and Perarivalan, Nalini’s sentence was later commuted to life.

Yeddyurappa’s bail plea rejected

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BANGALORE: The Karnataka high court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail petition of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in land scam and graft cases.

Rejecting the bail plea, Justice N. Narayana Swamy directed Yeddyurappa to be present in th

e Lokayukta (ombudsman) court later in the day in response to the summons issued by its judge N.K. Sudhindra Rao Aug 8.

Though Yeddyurappa was to appear in the trial court Saturday, his counsel pleaded for his exemption as he was suffering from fever.

Rao, however, rejected the counsel’s plea and ordered Yeddyurappa to appear before the court Monday.

The twin cases relate to denotification of land near Bangalore in favour of his kin and a Rs13 crore kickback in awarding a contract work to the highest bidder in the Upper Bhadra irrigation project during his tenure as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first chief minister in south India.

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