| 'Jindal got regular information about Mumbai from Headley' |
NEW DELHI, July 5: While he was training 12 terrorists in Muridke in Pakistan for the 26/11 terror attack, Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jindal, the arrested Indian handler of the carnage, was getting continuous information about Mumbai from David Coleman Headley who was on a recce of the metropolis as a Lashkar-e-Taiba spy.
Revealing this to investigators, Jindal has said that 12 terroris... |
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| Indian, Pakistani border guards to prevent truce violations |
NEW DELHI, July 5: Indian and Pakistani border guards on Thursday agreed to prevent and avoid cross-frontier firing and to maintain the ceasefire which was agreed upon in November 2003.
This was stated by the chiefs of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers here after four days of talks that ended with the signing of a record of the discussions.
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| India pushes hard for 26/11 CBM, Pakistan rejects state role |
NEW DELHI, July 5: With 26/11 plotter Abu Jindal’s disclosures creating public outrage here, India on Thursday pressed Pakistan to prosecute the 26/11 perpetrators and underlined this could be the biggest confidence building measure (CBM). Islamabad, however, strongly rejected any role of state actors in the Mumbai carnage and offered a joint probe.
The foreign secretaries of Indi... |
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| Team Anna denied permission to protest at Jantar Mantar |
NEW DELHI, July 5: Delhi Police on Thursday denied permission to Team Anna to hold an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar here from July 25, citing parliament’s monsoon session, during which others also will have to be accommodated for protest.
“We cannot accommodate only Team Anna for their protest at Jantar Mantar. They had asked permission for fast from July 25 till August 8... |
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| SC notice to Kerala on Achuthanandan's plea |
NEW DELHI, July 5: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Kerala government on a plea of former Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan for a special investigation team’s report on an alleged sex racket in Kozhikode district, and observed he was entitled to it.
The case dates back to 1997 when NGO Anweshi lodged a complaint that an ice cream parlour was being used as a brothel... |
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| Team Sangma to approach poll panel |
NEW DELHI, July 5: Presidential candidate P Sangma’s team has decided to approach the Election Commission against presidential poll returning officer VK Agnihotri’s approval of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee’s candidature. After a nearly two-hour-long meeting at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj’s residence here, it was decided that the poll panel will be appr... |
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| Delhi cops to question Abu Jindal for 15 more days |
NEW DELHI, July 5: A Delhi court on Thursday extended the custody of 26/11 plotter Abu Jindal Hamza with the Special Cell of Delhi Police for 15 more days. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav allowed the specialised anti-terror unit of Delhi Police to interrogate Jindal till July 20. The court said it found merit in the submission of Delhi Police for seeking Jindal’s custody for ... |
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| Meena to handle day-to-day affairs of finance ministry |
NEW DELHI, July 5: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked Minister of State for Finance (Expenditure and Financial Services) Namo Narain Meena to look after the day-to-day affairs of the ministry. The Prime Minister’s Office issued a circular allocating additional responsibilities to Meena. This indicates that the Prime Minister might keep the finance portfolio for a longer time. The Prime ... |
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| Bengal virtually free from Maoist threat: Chidambaram |
KOLKATA, July 5: Conceding that three states of the country continued to be “badly affected” by left wing extremism, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said West Bengal was “virtually free” from any such threat. “Although three states continue to be badly affected by LWE (left wing extremism), West Bengal has shown remarkable recovery. The three districts o... |
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| Krishna to visit Pakistan in September |
NEW DELHI, July 5: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Thursday said he hopes to visit Islamabad in the first week of September for official talks and the dates will be decided by the foreign secretaries of the two countries. “We are looking for dates in the first week of September,” Krishna told reporters when asked about the date for his Pakistan visit. He added that he will visi... |
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| Western Ghats being handed over to mining barons: Goa's green campaigner |
PANAJI, July 5: A rampaging iron ore mining industry and colluding officials are behind the shocking exclusion of Goa’s forests from a cluster of 39 areas in the Western ghats region that were included this week in Unesco’s World Heritage list, according to a leading green campaigner. Carmen Miranda, former director of Global Social Development Agency, Panos and a British citizen of... |
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| FIR against builder, bureaucrat in Mumbai land scam |
MUMBAI, July 5: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) filed an FIR on Thursday against realtor Niranjan Hiranandini and Maharashtra’s Additional Chief Secretary TC Benjamin in a Rs 45,000 crore land scandal.
In an embarrassment for the state government, special judge VA Daulatabadkar had on Tuesday asked ACB to lodge a first information report (FIR) under Section 156 (3) of the Crimina... |
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| Mystery continues over missing actress Laila Khan |
MUMBAI/JAMMU, July 5: Where is fringe Bollywood actress Laila Khan? The mystery continues after her stepfather and suspected militant Parvez Iqbal Tak told the Jammu and Kashmir Police that she and four of her family members were killed but her father Nadir Shah Patel challenged the contention in Mumbai Thursday. Tak, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba extremist nabbed in Jammu and Kashmir June 21, ma... |
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| World of contemporary colours captured in India's first art fiction |
NEW DELHI, July 5: First it was Geoff Dyer who spun the heady glamour of the Venice Biennale with the magic of the holy temple town of Varanasi into Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi in 2009.
Now, a native of Chennai, V Sanjay Kumar, an art connoisseur and collector, has taken the cue to plunge headlong into the whirlwind of the contemporary art world in Mumbai in his debut novel, &ldqu... |
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| We can't afford bigness of Hollywood films: Rakesh Roshan |
MUMBAI, July 5: Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan promises to offer the best stunts and action in his superhero flick Krrish 3, but admits they can’t compete with Hollywood’s technologically hi-fi sequences and burgeoning budgets. However, he says he retained the drama and emotions that Bollywood is known for in the movie.
“In terms of stunt spectacle and action, we have gone wa... |
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| NCC to grow, change training syllabus |
NEW DELHI, July 5: The National Cadet Corps (NCC), India’s military youth movement in schools and colleges, is all set to grow with the defence ministry planning to increase its sanctioned strength from the existing 13 lakh to 15 lakh cadets. The outfit is also readying to change its training syllabus, refining the philosophy to make it contemporary and meet the aspirations of the country&rs... |
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| Indian sex workers to video connect with world AIDS meet in US |
NEW DELHI, July 5: Sex workers from various parts of the country will gather in Kolkata to connect through video conferencing to the International AIDS Conference in the US in July, a representative of the sex workers community said Thursday. The proposed “global hub and sex workers freedom festival”, to be attended by 900 delegates, will put across the community’s rights-based i... |
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| Katrina beats Megan Fox and Blake Lively in 'World's sexiest woman' poll |
MUMBAI, July 5: Actress Katrina Kaif, who has often been compared to a Barbie doll because of her delicate looks and fresh beauty, has reportedly bagged the ‘World’s Sexiest Woman’ tag- for the fourth time. The poll was conducted by men’s lifestyle magazine FHM and the results were released recently. The actress, who created a rage with her recent item number chikni chameli... |
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| Prakash Jha's Chakravyuh to have a graphic novel |
MUMBAI, July 5: Graphic novels based on films seem to be the latest trend in the Hindi film industry. Films such as Don 2, RA One and Agent Vinod had released graphic novels. Adding to the list is the upcoming Prakash Jha film Chakravyuh. Jha quite liked the idea of graphic novels as he felt his upcoming film has all the prerequisites to be converted into a graphic novel. He wants to reach out to ... |
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| SRK's television production company shuts shop |
MUMBAI, July 5: Shah Rukh Khan’s television production unit Red Chillies Idiot Box has shut down. The team had its last working day on June 30. The unit was founded in the year 2009 and had conceived 12 shows till date. It conceived show such as Tere Mere Beech Mein with Farah Khan, Up Close And Personal With PZ with Preity Zinta and various other popular shows. However, none of them managed... |
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| Chitrangda to perform Kaafirana at Joker promotions |
MUMBAI, July 5: Dusky beauty Chitrangda Singh, who will be seen in a item song titled Kaafirana in Shirish Kunder’s next film Joker will reportedly be performing to the number for a live audience during the promotions. Though Singh is not a part of the main cast, her item song has garnered major publicity in the industry and naturally, fans of the actress are eager to see her in the song, wh... |
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| Sonakshi wants fans to decide her costume |
MUMBAI, July 5: Actors and actresses are known for regularly interacting with their fans through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and now, it seems that actress Sonakshi Sinha, who will be seen performing an item number in Oh My God has decided to let her fans choose her costume for the song. Sources claim that Sinha, who has studied fashion designing, had come up with a dress des... |
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| Asin wants to reach masses with commercial films |
MUMBAI, July 5: Southern actress Asin Thottumkal, who featured in Hindi films like London Dreams, Ready and Housefull 2, wants to reach out to the masses with the help of commercial movies. “I am satisfied with the work I have done till now. These are my initial years in Bollywood and I want to reach out to maximum number of people and only commercial films can help me achieve that,” s... |
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