Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Cash-for-Votes: No one has questioned me till now, says Ashok Argal

Cash-for-Votes: No one has questioned me till now, says Ashok Argal

Cash-for-Votes: No one has questioned me till now, says Ashok Argal

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Home Minister P Chidambaram may have said in Parliament that the cash for votes scandal was being probed by the Delhi Police, but in the over 30 months of investigation, the three BJP MPs who brought wads of notes to Parliament to show that an attempt had been made to buy them have still not been questioned.


The school where fake pilots trained

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Fake pilot licence scam: With two more pilots being arrested in Jaipur for submitting fake documents to get their flying licences, the government is slowly waking up to a thriving racket in Rajasthan that churns out fake pilots.


Japan: Radiation in water puts infants at risk

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Radioactive iodine detected in the capital's water supply spurred a warning for infants on Wednesday and the government issued a stark new estimate about the costs of rebuilding from the earthquake and tsunami that slammed into the northeast of Japan this month.


Income Tax raids Nagarjuna, other Telugu cinestars

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The Income Tax department today conducted searches at the residences and offices of several Telugu cinestars including Nagarjuna and his brother Venkat, sources in the department said.


Libya: US under fire for botched rescue effort

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An American pilot and a weapons officer were safely rescued in Libya on Tuesday after their warplane crashed near Benghazi, but the United States Marine Corps dropped two 500-pound bombs during the recovery and faced questions about whether Marines had fired on villagers.


Advani believes being PM was his birthright: Manmohan

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at his acerbic best in the Lok Sabha today as he took on the BJP veteran L K Advani to demolish the opposition attack on him in the cash-for-votes scam.


How Kalmadi’s decision caused Rs 10 crore loss

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There was world class food for the Commonwealth Games, but at loss of over 10 crores. These papers received by NDTV through RTI show that Suresh Kalmadi had a direct role to play in causing this loss which could have been avoided.


Explosion rocks Jerusalem bus stop; 25 wounded

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A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, wounding at least 25 people in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years.


Prime Minister’s statement on cash-for-votes scam

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The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today replied to the debate in Rajya Sabha over the cash-for-votes scam. Responding to the charges the Prime Minister today said, "We should not go by what some embassy official writes about us."


Turban row: Statement of the Ministry of External Affairs

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Turban row: Expressing its "great unhappiness" over Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh's coach Amritinder Singh being asked to take off his turban at the Milan airport, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today asked the Italian envoy to ask authorities back home to show more sensitivity.


Britain's royal wedding to be on iTunes

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Prince William and Kate Middleton can go straight from Westminster Abbey to your personal playlist.


Cash-for-votes scam probe to be completed soon, says Chidambaram

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Investigation by Delhi Police into allegations of cash-for-votes during Trust Vote in Lok Sabha in 2008 will be completed soon and the charge that a political party engineered the sting operation would also be probed, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today.


Video of water pumping at Reactor no. 3 released

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The Japanese fire department released a video on Wednesday showing firefighters in protective suits spraying water into the troubled No. 3 reactor at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The video which was filmed last Friday shows members of the elite "Hyper Rescue" team of the Tokyo fire Department, during the first water injection mission.


Now, an app to help delete drunken messages on Facebook

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Drunken texting may soon become a thing of the past. Thanks to a new iPhone application, you can now delete embarrassing messages posted on social network sites like 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' with the tap of a button.


Mother accuses son of raping her

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A 70-year-old-woman has accused her son of raping her in Bangarmau police area in Unnao, UP, police said on Wednesday.


Bhopal Tragedy: Delhi court allows CBI to extradite Anderson

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A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, from the United States.


Tragedy averted at Mumbai harbour

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A tragedy was averted in Mumbai harbour last week when ill-fated container cargo ship MSC Chitra - which had partly sunk after a collision last August - broke loose from its moorings but was soon recovered, a maritime authority said in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.


Turban row: Italian envoy summoned

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India today summoned the Italian Ambassador here and lodged a strong protest against leading golfer Jeev Milkha Singh's coach being asked to take off his turban during security check at Milan airport.


After helicopters robotic arm tries to cool nuclear reactor

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A 50-metre-long robotic arm sprayed water on a dangerously hot spent fuel pool as workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant rushed to hook up power lines to all six reactors. The specialised arm was brought in on Tuesday to help firefighters battling to keep the spent fuel rods and the reactors themselves cool at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.


Delhi: 10-year-old girl brutally beaten, raped by uncle

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A 10-year-old girl was brutally beaten and then allegedly raped by her uncle in Aman Vihar area of outer Delhi on March 20. The accused was arrested on Tuesday. According to police, the incident took place when the girl, a class IV student of the local government school, was alone at her home.


Undertrial Lashkar man now an IAS aspirant

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An Lashkar-e-Toiba militant facing trial in several high-profile cases wants to write the civil services exams.


Australian tourist molested by Delhi tailor

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While incidents of Indians being allegedly harassed or abused in Australia keep appearing in the news intermittently, here's the story of a tailor who tried to get too friendly with a woman from Down Under in the Capital. The 28-year-old Australian national has alleged that she was molested by the accused, after he offered her a lift in his car, in upmarket Tilak Marg area on Monday.


No insurance for radiation exposure

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Even as the threat of nuclear radiation exposure becomes more real in light of the meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, MiD DAY has found that no insurance company in the country covers the specific outcomes of such an eventuality. 'Nuclear radiation' is, in fact, a standard exclusion in the text of most policies.


Fake pilot licence scam: Govt orders audit of all flying schools

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Fake pilot licence scam: After two more pilots were arrested on Tuesday for submitting fake documents to get their pilot licenses, Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi ordered an audit of all the forty flying schools in the country.


26/11: Kasab writes to Supreme Court challenging his death sentence

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Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, has written a letter to the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty handed out to him by the Bombay High Court.


Black money: Hasan Ali's accountant's residence raided

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids at the residence of Hasan Ali's chartered accountant in Pune. Sunil Shinde has been Hasan Ali's accountant since 2007.


Jat agitation in Haryana disrupts train traffic

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Jat agitation continued to disrupt train services in many parts of Haryana on Wednesday as well. 66 trains including Shatabadi and Rajdhani were cancelled on the northern and north-western sector and many trains were diverted.


Japan: Spent fuel hampers efforts at nuclear plant

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Workers at Japan's ravaged nuclear power plant on Tuesday renewed a bid to bring its command centres back into service and to restore electricity to vital cooling systems, but an overheating spent fuel pool hampered efforts and raised the threat of further radiation leaks.


Libya unrest: ‘We'll be victorious’, a defiant Gaddafi tells supporters

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Libyan TV broadcast on Tuesday night what it said was a brief live address by ruler Moammar Gaddafi before supporters at his encampment near Tripoli, the Libyan capital.


Cash-for-votes WikiLeaks: Opposition targets PM in Parliament

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The Opposition today continued its assault on the government over the latest WikiLeaks cable on the cash-for-votes scandal. In a stinging attack on Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said, "The PM is accountable...he can't keep putting blame on others."


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