Friday, December 24, 2010

CWG scam: Suresh Kalmadi raided, passes the buck

CWG scam: Suresh Kalmadi raided, passes the buck

CWG scam: Suresh Kalmadi raided, passes the buck

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CBI raids Suresh Kalmadi - After eight hours of raids at his offices and homes across cities, Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee, was characteristically defiant. "I am innocent till proven guilty. I have not taken any decision alone," he said after the raids.


Belarus president re-elected, others cry fraud

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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was officially declared the winner Friday of a fourth term in office in a vote that both his challengers and international monitors say was tainted by fraud.


Russian parliament tentatively approves arms pact

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Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday gave preliminary approval to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.


Ivory Coast state TV signal cut off in some areas

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Ivory Coast state television disappeared from the airwaves outside the nation's largest city late Thursday, a blow to the incumbent president's attempts to cling to power in the bloody aftermath of an election most of the world says he lost.


Iraqi kills daughter recruited as Al-Qaida bomber

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An Iraqi man killed his 19-year-old daughter after he discovered Al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber in an area north of Baghdad, a police spokesman said on Friday.


Thousands flock to Bethlehem for Christmas

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Thousands of tourists, pilgrims and clergy converged on Bethlehem on Friday as the town of Jesus' birth prepared to celebrate Christmas Eve.


Congress raises BJP-Radia links

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The Congress opened up another front in the corruption debate with the BJP, with party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi demanding that the BJP sack former Union Minister and Karnataka leader Ananth Kumar.


Goa police tighten security after terror alert

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The Goa police have intensified patrolling along the coast following a terror alert by Central agencies about possible intrusion of terrorists through the western coast.


Meet some of the world's largest Santas

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Meet the elephant Santas of Thailand. They hand out presents, dance to music, and even perform with balloons regaling kids with their antics.


After CBI raids, Suresh Kalmadi takes defiant stand

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On a cold Delhi morning, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turned the heat up for Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee.


Chandrababu Naidu breaks his fast on Day 8

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Opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu has ended his hunger strike, launched to protest against the Andhra Pradesh government's alleged indifference towards the state's farmers.


Santa goes green on Puri beach

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Across the globe Santa Claus wears red clothes, but at the golden beach of Puri he has gone green. A 160-feet-long sand sculpture of Santa Claus, claimed to be the longest in size, has been made in green colour to spread the message of Go-Green to fight against global warming.


Beijing fights nightmare traffic

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Traffic jams in Beijing are worsening with each passing day. The city now has 4.76 million vehicles, compared to 2.6 million in 2005 with nearly 2,000 new cars hitting the road each day.


Raids could loosen Suresh Kalmadi's hold over Pune

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Raids that lasted eight hours at his houses in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune didn't seem to affect Suresh Kalmadi's holiday cheer.


7-month old becomes youngest child to undergo liver transplant

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Dishant, a seven-month-old baby boy from West Bengal, has become the youngest child to undergo a liver transplant at the Army Hospital Research and Referral here.


Minor girl kidnapped, murdered for ransom

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A four-year-old-girl was kidnapped and strangled to death for ransom in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, police said. Megha, daughter of a businessman, was abducted yesterday by three persons while she was playing outside her house in Surajbadh locality, they said.


Another storm hits Europe flights

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A fresh storm brought new delays to the European Continent on Friday, snarling travel for thousands of Christmas Eve travelers from Paris and parts of Germany but London's Heathrow Airport was operating almost normally.


He delivered baby with help of iPhone

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A man who was stuck at his snowed-in home in Britain helped deliver his girlfriend's baby by checking the internet on his iPhone. Chris Corfield used his phone to look online for tips on how to deliver a baby when his girlfriend Jenni Visser went into labour at their home in Southport, Merseyside, Daily Express reported on Friday.


Stop violence in West Bengal, Chidambaram tells Buddhadeb

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After publicly condemning the killing of civilians in West Bengal, Home Minister P Chidambaram has reportedly written to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya raising concern over the violence in the state.


Laskhar terrorists in Mumbai most likely not Indians

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Four alleged members of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), who sneaked into the city to carry out "violent" attacks, could be "foreigners" and are believed to have infiltrated into the country from the Bangladeshi border, police said.


Romanian man jumps off Parliament’s balcony

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Romania's government survived a no-confidence motion in Parliament on Thursday, but will it survive this shocking incident? In the midst of the no-confidence motion, a distraught TV engineer Adrian Sobaru jumped off Parliament chamber's balcony, unhappy with budget cuts that reduced benefits for his autistic son.


Fake currency worth Rs 34.88 lakh recovered from militants in J&K

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Fake Indian currency with a face value of over Rs 34 lakhs has been recovered from militants by the security and police forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 11 years, a ministry report has said.


Pay for each bucket of water in Ranchi

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For every bucket of water that you use in Ranchi, you might have to soon shell out a token amount of money to the government.


Maoists commander held in Bihar

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A self-styled CPI(Maoist) commander was today arrested from Bihar's Aurangabad district, a senior police officer said.


Patna 12-yr-old used iPod to kidnap junior

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A class VIII student allegedly kidnapped a boy, three class junior to him in the same school, for ransom and killed him within an hour with the help of his hostel mates here, police today said.


Kolkata: Air Deccan plane makes emergency landing

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An Air Deccan plane from Jamshedpur today landed in emergency conditions at NSC Bose International airport here after one of its engines developed a technical problem and shut down mid-air.


Two BPO employees die in accident

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Two BPO employees, including a woman, were killed and two others injured when their car capsized after hitting an electric pole in nearby Nagarbhavi today, police said.


Who is Binayak Sen?

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Fifty eight-year-old Dr Binayak Sen was found guilty of waging war against India and sentenced to life term by a Chhattisgarh court on December 24. He was accused by the prosecution of being a conduit for carrying letters from senior Naxal leaders like Narayan Sanyal, who was in prison, to his supporters.


Jayalalithaa appeals to Naidu to give up fast

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AIADMK General Secretary Jayalaithaa on Friday appealed to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to give up his fast, saying his life was far too precious to be sacrificed at the altar of 'cut-throat' politics.


Two women run over by train

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Two women were killed after being run over by a train on the Delhi-Howrah route here, police said today.


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