Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Cameron begins high octave India visit

Cameron begins high octave India visit

Cameron begins high octave India visit

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It is being described as the biggest charm offensive in diplomacy. As David Cameron begins his much hyped India visit, his main aim as one diplomat described it, is to put the excitement back in a long term marriage.


Mumbai girl wins International Physics Olympiad

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She's just 18, but Akanksha Sarda has already made history. She is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad.


Amit Shah to be grilled by CBI today

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Amit Shah, the most trusted aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, will be interrogated by the CBI for the first time today in connection with the killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi.


Delhi's new T-3 terminal swings into business today

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The full-scale commercial operations at the swanky new integrated terminal 3 (T3) of the IGI airport here will begin today with all airlines shifting their operations and the Air India flight from New York will be the first to arrive. "The airlines would shift their operations to T3 from 2 pm onwards. We have chosen Wednesday to shift from T2 to T3, because on this day there are least number of flights between 2 pm and 7.30 pm," Andrew Harrison, Chief Operating Officer, DIAL, said. Passengers of Air India's flight (AI-102) from JFK New York would be the first to arrive at the world's sixth largest airport, when its commercial operations begin, he said, adding Air India's Jaipur-Delhi-Dubai flight (IC-895) would be the first flight to take-off from here.


Pentagon opens criminal probe into Afghan war file leaks

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The US Army has started a criminal probe into the leak of some 92,000 classified military files on the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.


New ‘bar code’ for Bangalore to ensure morality

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The police in Bangalore on Tuesday issued a raft of strict guidlines for women employed in bars and restaurants, including uniforms and barring 'obscene' activities in a bid to ensure morality and public order at bars in the city.


Sohrabuddin killed for money and politics: CBI chargesheet

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The noose seems to be is tightening around Gujarat's former Home Minister Amit Shah. NDTV has accessed a copy of the CBI's chargesheet against Shah which says the motives behind the Sohrabuddin fake encounter were two-fold - there was a financial motive as well as a political one.


Nothing new in leaked Afghan documents: Obama

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US President Barack Obama says he is concerned about the massive leak of sensitive US documents about the Afghanistan war, but that the papers do not reveal any concerns that were not already part of the debate.


Osama held suicide bomber recruitment in Pakistan: WikiLeaks

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Contradicting CIA's assertion that it has no intelligence on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden since 2003, leaked secret US military documents say the Al-Qaida chief personally attended a recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2006.


Ex-MLA assaulted at Pune Congress meet

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Unruly scenes marked the process for election of Pune District Congress president as workers belonging to rival factions came to blows, beating up former MLA Sambhaji Kunjir in the melee on Tuesday.


Yahoo Japan teams with Google on search

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Yahoo Japan will use Google technology to power its Internet search engine and search advertising platform, the Japanese company announced Tuesday, diverging from a nascent alliance between the U.S. Internet portal Yahoo and Microsoft.


British PM calls Gaza 'prison camp'

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp."


Russians spacewalk, repair ISS laboratory

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Two Russian cosmonauts have completed a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk to replace a video camera and improve cable connections to the orbiting laboratory's newest module.


Facebook helps Philippine cops nab murder suspect

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Officials say Philippine police tracked down a suspect in a series of grisly robberies and murders with the help of his Facebook account. Mark Dizon, a 28-year-old computer technician, is accused of killing nine people.


MBBS student trying to flee to Russia arrested

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An MBBS student, who allegedly drove a speeding car that ran over eight labourers killing four of them in a South Delhi locality, was arrested early on Tuesday morning from the airport in Delhi while trying to flee to Russia where he is studying.


WikiLeaks: India says Pak must stop 'sponsorship of terrorism'

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India has issued a strong statement in response to the documents leaked on Monday by WikiLeaks.


Kingfisher employee detained for thrashing passengers

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A Kingfisher Airlines employee who was detained on Monday evening on charges of thrashing passengers who were agitating over the delay of a Mumbai-bound flight following a bird hit in Ranchi, was let off after two hours.


Wheat rots in Punjab, but Kashmir Kaur's family will starve

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Putting food on the family's plate is an everyday battle for Kashmir Kaur. This happens in a state where at least 10 lakh metric tonnes of surplus wheat, is rotting outside government godowns - grain that should have been fed into a weakening public distribution system.


Mangalore air crash: Memorial now, money later

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Holding her young daughter in her arms, Helen Menezes watched as others prayed for the 158 people who died in Air India crash at Mangalore two months ago. The memorial service was organized by Air India at the place where the plane went up in flames after its pilot overshot the runway by several thousand feet.


Was this 22-year-old behind war on WikiLeaks?

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A 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, facing a court-martial, appears to be behind the biggest leak in US military history of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan that also exposed Pakistan's double- game in the war-torn country, including its Taliban links.


Mumbai Traffic Police gets fitter, leaner

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Body Mass Index is the new catchphrase for traffic cops in Mumbai. The traffic police department wants only healthy candidates who will be able to take the stress and travails of a life on the streets of the traffic-snarled city.


Bangalore man sends threat email in colleague’s name, arrested

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A 29-year-old in Bangalore was probably assured that he would land his former colleague in serious trouble when he dispatched a bomb scare to the Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari from an email id he had created in his name.


Afghanistan uses WikiLeaks to slam Pakistan

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The Afghan government said on Tuesday that leaked Pentagon documents on the war in Afghanistan showed the country's Western allies had an incoherent approach to the insurgency, now in its ninth year.


On camera, Amit Shah's aides try to influence witnesses

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The CBI court has issued non-bailable warrants against Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel, two close aides of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, who have now been declared absconders, in the Sobrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The warrant was issued by the chief additional judicial magistrate A I Raval on Monday after CBI probing the case, applied for their remand. According to the chargesheet filed by CBI, after the probe in the case was transferred to the agency in January this year, Shah directed Patel and Chudasama to "convince, coerce, threaten, and influence the witnesses on his behalf to conceal the truth from CBI, about the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin."


Lufthansa cargo crashes in Riyadh; no casualties reported

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A Lufthansa official says one of the airline's cargo planes has crashed in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh but there was no immediate word on casualties.


Petition for permanent banning of Facebook in Pakistan

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Even as the Jamaat-ud-Dawah mounts pressure on Pakistani authorities to slap a ban on Facebook, a petition filed in a court has sought a permanent bar on access to the social networking website due to the launch of an "anti-Islam competition". Acting on the petition filed by Judicial Activism Panel chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought the stance of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to the demand for a permanent ban on Facebook. In his petition, Siddique sought a permanent ban on the website as it was hosting a page with a contest named "Everybody Burn Quran Day". Siddique said in his petition that Facebook was also displaying blasphemous pictures of "Khana-e-Kaaba". Siddique asked the court to declare such acts as "illegal, un-Islamic, unconstitutional and against the injunctions of Islam." He also asked the court to launch contempt of court proceedings against the websites owners and to punish them accordingly. Siddique asked the court to direct authorities to ensure that no blasphemous material is published, displayed, visualized or aired in the country. The JuD, which has been organising protests every Friday against the US and other Western countries for committing blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, has been pressuring authorities to ban Facebook for anti-Islamic contents.


Telangana by-polls, over 42% polling reported till 1pm

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Over 42 percent polling has been recorded till 1 pm in the by-elections to the 12 Assembly Constituencies in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh today. Siddipet in Medak district reported the highest 49 percent polling, while the lowest 35 percent turnout was recorded in Nizamabad urban constituency, State Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao told reporters here. Polling began at 7 am and will end at 5 pm. The by-polls have been necessitated as the sitting MLA's had quit their posts in support of separate Telangana demand.


Fire at Rajiv Chowk metro station

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A small fire broke out at the busy Rajiv Chowk metro station in the Capital on Tuesday afternoon but no one was injured, fire officials said.


Chandrababu gives PM 15 days to solve Babhli dispute

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Holding the Centre and Congress responsible for Maharashtra government's attitude, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday threatened to launch a mass agitation programme if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fails to resolve the Babhli issue amicably by August 10.


Woman fined for false allegation about impotent husband

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A local court has ordered a woman to give Rs two lakh as compensation to her estranged husband for alleging that he was impotent. Enraged on the charge of impotence husband filed a defamation case.


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