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Spot fixing Five accused sent to judicial custody
A Delhi court sent five spot fixing scam accused, including two former cricketers, to judicial custody till June 4. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma sent to judicial custody three bookies -- Kiran Dole, Sunil Bhatia and Ramakant Aggarwal -- and two players - Manish Guddewar, a former Ranji player of Vidarbha, and Amit Kumar Singh, a former IPL player associated with the ...
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President concerned over crime against women
Expressing concern over rising incidents of crime against women and children, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday called for effective measures to ensure their safety and security. Underlining the need for arresting the moral decline in society, the president told students of Himachal Pradesh University here to find answers for reversing the degradation of values. Favouring imparting moral and ...
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CBSE Class 12 results Monday
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will declare the results of Class 12 Monday, an official statement said. The results will be declared at 10 a.m., and will be available online on www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, and www.cbse.nic.in. The results will also be available through interactive voice response system (IVRS) at a charge of Re.0.30 per minute. The numbers will ...
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Channelise domestic savings into financial assets PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday called for increased efforts by the government and financial regulators to channelise domestic savings into financial assets. "The imperative of growth requires an increasing proportion of savings getting channelized into financial assets to facilitate their deployment in the most productive uses," the prime minister said while speaking at the Silver Jubilee ...
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BJP meet to discuss strategy against UPA regime Naqvi
The first meeting of the BJP's reconstituted national executive next month will work out strategy for an effective campaign against the UPA government in its last year in office and discuss preparations for the forthcoming assembly polls, party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here Friday. Naqvi said the two-day meeting in Goa starting June 8 will discuss "strategy and effective ...
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Another mobile phone recovered from Sreesanths female friend
Tainted cricketer S. Sreesanth's interrogation led Delhi Police to another mobile phone which he had gifted to a female friend from the money he earned from spot fixing in this season's Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, said a police official Friday. A Blackberry Bold mobile phone worth Rs.9,000 was recovered Friday from the woman's house in Jaipur, police said. Sreesanth came in contact ...
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FICCI for regulating betting in sports
FICCI Friday called for regulating sports betting in India in the wake of the cricketing spot fixing scandal. Despite several attempts to ban it, betting is continuing in an underground way, the business lobby said in a statement. The middle way out "is it should be regulated in a way" to reduce this to an acceptable level, it said. "Hence, the government should think of legalizing and ...
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IOC sets deadlines for suspended IOA
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Friday asked the suspended Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to amends its constitution by July 15 and hold fresh elections no later than Sep 1 for getting back to the Olympic fold. The IOC had suspended IOA Dec 4 for not complying with the Olympic charter. IOC director general Christopher de Kepper, in a letter addressed to Sports Minister Jitendra ...
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India-China border issue a colonial heritage Russian envoy
The border problem between India and China is a colonial heritage and Russia is glad that both countries could diplomatically resolve it, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin said Saturday. Kadakin was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Russian consul office in Panaji. "The border problem was not created by India. It is a heritage of colonial times when borders were not ...
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Heat wave unabated in Punjab Haryana
The heat wave prevailing over the plains of Punjab and Haryana remained unabated Friday with temperatures at most places in the two states remaining over 46 degrees. The Sikh holy city of Amritsar, which had Thursday recorded its highest ever temperature of 48 degrees, saw another hot day with the mercury touching 47.7 degrees. The temperature was nine degrees above the average, Met officials ...
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Searing heat continues in Delhi no respite Saturday
It was another day Friday when the capital reeled under the scorching temperature, which shot up to five notches above average at 45 degrees Celsius. There will be no let up in the heat Saturday. The heat wave added to the discomfort of people who have experienced searing heat for the past few days. While the minimum temperature settled three notches above average at 25.5 degrees Celsius, the ...
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Kerala governor turns commoner at airport
Kerala Governor Nikhil Kumar turned a commoner after flying in from New Delhi when Air India failed to open the VIP exit door for him, airport sources said Friday. The incident took place almost a week ago. Kumar arrived by Air India close to 11 p.m. As per protocol, the governor is entitled to board his car on the tarmac. While senior officials of the airport, Air India and the Central ...
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US decision will not hit capital inflows to India Montek
India does not depend on short-term borrowings from the US and if the US withdraws its stimulus packages, it will not impact capital inflows in India, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here Friday. "I think if they (US) do that...I don't think that the expected changes in quantitative easing (QE) will make a difference to the kind of inflows that we are talking ...
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Malayalam actor Mani surrenders released on bail
Ace Malayalam comedian and character artiste Kalabhavan Mani surrendered to police Friday and was presented in a court which released him on bail. Mani was on the run since May 14 after three forest officials filed a complaint that they were roughed up by the actor after they stopped his vehicle as part of a routine night checking. According to the forest officials, Mani, after refusing to ...
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Singh Sahab The Great to come out during Dussehra
Filmmaker Anil Sharma, whose "Singh Sahab The Great" is almost ready, says the Sunny Deol starrer is slated for Oct 11 release, two days before Dussehra. "We are ready with our film and the film is in its post production stage. I am busy with the post production. When I was editing the film, I had tears in my eyes. The film has shaped up very well and we will be releasing the film on Oct 11," ...
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NHRC seeks report from UP over womens beating
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh Police over five women being assaulted in Lalitpur district. "Five women workers of an NGO called Sahjani Shiksha Kendra were beaten with lathis by some influential people in Lalitpur district. We have sought a report from Uttar Pradesh deputy general of police within 15 days," an official of the NHRC said ...
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104-year-old operated on successfully
In a veritable medical miracle, a 104-year-old man successfully underwent spinal surgery within weeks of recovering from a heart operation, his doctors said here Friday. "While the spine procedure in itself was simple, there were multiple risks considering the age of the patient and the prior medical history," said Sandeep Vaishya, additional director, neurology, Fortis Memorial Research ...
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Karimedu - spine chilling realistic
Film: "Karimedu"; Cast: Pooja Gandhi, Raghu Mukherjee, Makarand Deshpande, Ravi Kale, Ravi Shankar, Nisha Kothari, Muni, Karisubbu, Yathiraj and Jaidev; Director: Srinivasaraju; Rating: 1/2 I love a film that doesn't hesitate to present what it had originally planned to such as "Karimedu", which takes a true story and treats it with such honesty that you want to laud the effort. Even though it ...
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Guddi inspired Sonam for Raanjhanaa
For her role of a schoolgirl in "Raanjhanaa", Sonam Kapoor took inspiration from Jaya Bachchan's popular character in hit movie "Guddi", which too revolved around a schoolgoing teenager. "I had already seen 'Guddi' but I saw it again before shooting for the film. I was inspired by Jaya Bachchanji in 'Guddi' for the film," Sonam told reporters Friday at the unveiling of director Anand L. Rai's ...
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INS Vikramaditya could be handed over by December Russian envoy
Long-delayed aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing trials and could be in India by December, Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. The Russian ambassador also complained that the delay in handing over of the Russian aircraft carrier to India was being written about extensively, as compared to the five-year long delay in the French-built Scorpene submarine. Kadakin was ...
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Tennis Sunish puts out Kalyanpur
Sixth seed Dhruv Sunish of Maharashtra knocked out second seed Adil Kalyanpur of Karnataka 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals to set up a title clash with state-mate and top seed Siddhant Jagdish Banthia in the boys singles of the Karle Infra ATF Under-14 Asian junior ranking tennis tournament here Friday. In the other semi-final, Banthia rallied to beat fourth seed Megh Patel of Gujarat 6-7(7), 6-3, ...
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Goa eyes Rs.25000 crore industrial investment
Holding a fig leaf to protect its shrinking identity, Goa wants to roll out a red carpet for a Rs.25,000 crore investment it needs to set its industrial ambitions in order. After decades of cozying up to family-run mining companies and power-guzzling, polluting smelting units, the Goa government is now eying light-weight, technology-heavy industry, which will harness local talent and avoid ...
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Spot fixing heartbreaking Sophie Choudry
Expressing her grief over spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), singer-actress Sophie Choudry, a cricket fan, says it is "heartbreaking" to see such "criminal activity". Three Rajasthan Royal players, including India pacer S. Sreesanth, have been arrested in connection with spot fixing. Actor Vindu Dara Singh has also been arrested. "It's heartbreaking. I am a huge cricket fan, I am ...
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Singapore to help develop Maharashtra
Singapore is ready to help Maharashtra develop its infrastructure in major cities like Mumbai and Pune, an official said Friday. This was indicated by visiting Singapore Deputy Prime Minister T. Shanmugaratnam in talks with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here. "Singapore is a very small country compared to India. We focussed on providing the best urban infrastructure and developing cities to ...
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Court reserves order on Sajjan Kumars plea
The Delhi High Court Friday reserved its verdict on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea challenging a trial court order to frame charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case relating to the killing of six people in Sultanpuri area here. Justice Suresh Kait reserved the order after hearing all the parties in the case. The high court, which was to pronounce its order April 29, deferred it ...
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Mumbai as a city must look to a progressive future
Homosexuality was only decriminalised last year in India, so it is natural that some old ways of thinking will linger, but the recent discrimination against a transgender individual in the city is an ugly reminder of the work yet to be done.
Mumbai is a massive city of over 11 million people, it is the capital of the world’s largest democracy, and is home to a cosmopolitan mix of people from all over the country and the world. Yet some in Mumbai remain, in many ways, social backward in many of their views toward traditional taboo issues such as homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and cross-dressing. Read more
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