Monday, April 11, 2011

Japan likely to raise nuclear crisis severity level at Fukushima plant to maximum

Japan likely to raise nuclear crisis severity level at Fukushima plant to maximum

Japan likely to raise nuclear crisis severity level at Fukushima plant to maximum

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Japan's top government spokesman says Japanese regulators will soon announce a revision of the severity of the crisis at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, amid reports they will raise it to the highest level and on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.


50 years on, remembering man's first tryst with space

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Man in space: On the eve of two prominent space anniversaries, the six humans circling the Earth said on Monday that they will join in the celebrations from the best vantage point of all - orbit. Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space and the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch.


Air India pilots refuse to fly to Goa

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They are resenting the unavailability of a landing aid feature that indicates the path for the pilot. This means pilots have to measure the landing purely by sight, a possible but difficult maneouvre.


Belarus: 2 killed as explosion hits subway station

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An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.


Egypt blogger convicted for criticising military

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Local and international rights groups say an Egyptian military court has convicted a blogger of insulting the army and sentenced him to three years in prison.


Government indulging in 'helicopter politics', alleges BJP

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BJP today alleged that the Union Government was indulging in "helicopter politics" by preventing its senior leaders from using choppers for campaigning in poll-bound Kerala on the pretext that Prime Minister is using the same air route.


No message from Sonia in Congress' mouthpiece

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The latest issue of Congress Sandesh once again does not have Sonia Gandhi's usual message to party workers.


Berlusconi returns to dock, laughs off sex crime trial

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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today accused Italy's judges of being out to get him and laughed off his ongoing sex crime trial as he returned to court on fraud charges in a separate trial.


After Hazare's criticism, Sibal denies differences or tension

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It took 72-year-old activist Anna Hazare, his four-day hunger strike, and thousands of Indians protesting in the streets to persuade the government that the country can no longer wait for a tough new law that will combat corruption. And though the government eventually agreed to Mr Hazare's demand, a friction seems to linger.


Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo is captured

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Laurent Gbagbo: After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader on Monday arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave the presidency despite losing elections more than four months earlier.


Congress workers lathicharged in Lucknow

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Congress workers in the city were lathicharged by the police for raising slogans and demanding a CBI probe in the murder of Dr BP Singh, the Chief Medical Officer, at the Uttar Pradesh Health and Family Welfare Department.


New telecom policy to delink spectrum from licenses

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Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has announced a new set of rules today that aim at cleansing a system that seemed designed for manipulation. Spectrum will no longer be bundled with licenses. Spectrum will also be priced at market rates, making it much more expensive.


Income Tax raids at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital

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Lilavati Hospital raids: Mumbai's famous Lilavati Hospital - the choice of several VIPs - got attention today for a different reason. The Income Tax raided 29 locations across the city on Monday that are related to the hospital and its trustees.


French women wear veils in public to protest ban

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Several women protested in veils in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, denouncing France's new ban on Islamic face veils or naqabs. Two women wearing the naqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, claimed the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion.


Two people injured in political clashes in Kerala

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Two people have been injured as clashes broke out between workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and the Muslim League in Kerala's Malappuram district.


Plutonium as fuel? Japan crisis raises doubts

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On a tract of government land along the Savannah River in South Carolina, an army of workers is building one of the nation's most ambitious nuclear enterprises in decades: a plant that aims to safeguard at least 43 tons of weapons-grade plutonium by mixing it into fuel for commercial power reactors.


Assam polls: 70.35 per cent voter turnout in final phase

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Barring some clashes and police firing that injured 22 people, the second and last phase of assembly polls in Assam passed off peacefully today with a voter turnout of 70.35 per cent.


Don't spread panic on superbug, says Sheila Dikshit

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Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today appealed people in the city not to panic in the wake of reports that drug resistant bacteria was found in Delhi's public water supply and said water agency Delhi Jal Board (DJB) had rejected the findings of international scientific journal 'Lancet'.


Nine-year-old boy thrashed to death by another minor

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A nine-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by another minor boy with a cricket bat at Kawal village in Muzaffarnagar, police said on Monday.


In trouble for remarks on Mahatma Gandhi and corruption

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H D Kumaraswamy, who heads a major opposition party in Karnataka, has landed in trouble for his remarks on Mahatma Gandhi.


Strong aftershock as Japan urges more evacuations

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A strong aftershock struck off the coast of northeast Japan on Monday as the Japanese government said it was preparing to expand the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear power plant to address concerns over long-term exposure to radiation.


Whose body was couriered in a steel trunk?

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When employees at a courier office in Ajmer forced open a steel trunk because it was stinking, they were not expecting to find a dead body inside.


Achutanandan's Amul baby comment 'uncivilised': Pranab

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today snubbed Kerala Chief Minister V S Achutanandan for his comment describing Rahul Gandhi as an 'Amul baby'.


Anna Vs Kapil Sibal on Lokpal Bill

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Both Anna Hazare and Kapil Sibal are members of the committee that will draft what the country hopes will be a historic and tough law to combat corruption. But in a case of public friction, Mr Hazare has said that Mr Sibal, who is the Telecom Minister, should not participate in the process of forming a new law if he doesn't expect it to be effective.


Supreme Court over-rules Govt on 2G prosecutor

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The Supreme Court today directed the government to appoint senior advocate U U Lalit as Special Public Prosecutor for the trial of the 2G spectrum case involving former Telecom Minister A Raja and others.


Will Lokpal discussions be filmed for transparency?

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A decision to videograph the proceedings of the Joint Committee on Lokpal Bill as sought by Gandhian Anna Hazare have to be taken by the drafting panel itself, its member Union Minister Salman Khurshid said today.


Japan rattled by aftershock on quake anniversary

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A strong earthquake rattled Japan's northeast Monday on the one-month anniversary of the massive temblor and wave that devastated the northeastern coast and unleashed a still-unfolding nuclear crisis.


2G scam fallout: Sibal announces new licensing framework

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2G scam: Under heavy fire over the 2G spectrum scam, the government today announced sweeping changes in the spectrum allocation policy.


Land prices soar around disputed nuclear project site

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Even as naysayers are raising the bugbear of Japan's dual disaster as justification to stall the creation of a 10,000 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, something atypical is happening in and around the disputed site in Ratnagiri district.


Female cadet's intimate moments broadcast over Skype

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The Australian government is likely to announce review of its defence force 'culture' over the handling of a complaint by an 18-year-old female cadet whose sexual encounter with a male colleague was broadcast over Skype without her knowledge.


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