Thursday 12 July 2012

FIRST LOOK:Mashallah Ek Tha TigeR


Here is a look at the first song, Mashallah from Ek Tha Tiger starring ex-flames Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.


Young women, please note: No cellphones, evening walks in Ajit Singh's constituency





 Less than an hour from Delhi, a panchayat in union minister Ajit Singh's constituency, has decided love marriages, unescorted walks in the evenings, and mobile phones are off-limits for women.


When women leave their homes, their heads must be covered.  Women younger than 40 must not leave their homes at all after sunset.


"People who want  love marriages can  move out of our village,"said  Mohman Khan, a member of the panchayat in the Asaara village in Baghpat. 


"We completely accept the decision ," said a villager named Musharraf.  "If single girls walk in the village  a lot problems are created." 

Wednesday 11 July 2012

India wrestler-actor Dara Singh dead


Wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh has died in the Indian city of Mumbai after a long illness, his doctors say.
The 83-year-old had been admitted to hospital last week after a heart attack.
He was taken home on Wednesday night after doctors said he had little chance of recovery and that there had been significant damage to his brain.
Singh, who won the world wrestling championship in 1960, acted in several Bollywood films and television serials.
He gained huge popularity while playing Hanuman, the monkey god, in the television adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
He was also an member of parliament from 2003 to 2009 when he was appointed to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament.

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Citizens willing to pay Rs. 15 for bottle of water, but won't pay Rs. 1 more for a kilo of rice: Chidambaram



India would soon return to high growth path soon with several measures being taken by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to reboot the economy battered by external and internal factors, P Chidambaram said  on Tuesday in Bangalore.  The Union Home Minister was addressing a press conference.

To a question on high food inflation and the plight of the middle class, Mr Chidambaram said the issues should not be looked from the point of view of urban middle class alone and said hike in procurement price reflected on food prices. "Higher procurement prices will reflect in higher food prices... but higher procurement prices benefits millions of farmers. if you increase the price of sugarcane, sugar cannot be cheaper... if you increase the procurement price of wheat, paddy, rice the consumer cannot pay less," he said.
 
He quipped people were prepared to pay Rs. 15 for a bottle of water and Rs. 20 for a cone icecream, but protest against rise in wheat and rice price. "You are prepared to pay Rs. 15 for a bottle of water, but we will not pay a one rupee increase in the price of kilo rice or kilo wheat. We are prepared to pay 20 rupees for ice cream cone but we will not pay one rupee more for a kilo rice or kilo wheat," he said.
Giving a report card on the performance of the second UPA government in the past three years, Mr Chidambaram said despite a challenging year when developed countries the world over registered zero or no growth in 2011-12, India registered 6.8 percent GDP growth. "Compared to other countries, India continues to be a high investment destination, as a whopping $46.55 billion of foreign direct investment in 2011-12. We also continue to be a major overseas investor after the US, Britain, Canada, Germany and France. Exports contributed 22 percent to the GDP in 2011-12 from a mere 5.3 percent over a decade ago," Mr Chidambaram pointed out.

He admitted 2011-12 was a bad year during which the country achieved a GDP growth of 6.5 per cent which is "not enough" for a developing country like India where millions of people are in poverty. "We need to grow at a faster rate. We need to create more jobs," he said, adding, "India needs to grow at over 8 per cent or perhaps at 9 per cent." Despite the difficulties, Mr Chidambaram pointed out  that  the government has identified the problems and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who also holds the finance portfolio, is addressing these issues.

Mulayam vs Facebook: He'll hit 'unlike' button in Parliament



Mr Azmi has written a letter to Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra RR Patil and asked him to check such acts, it said. He also requested the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister "to look into the matter and use his clout to check anti-Islam activity on Facebook", the statement said.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that he would raise with the Prime Minister the issue of "anti-Islam material" on Facebook and seek a strict law against posting such objectionable material on social networking sites.

"Mulayam Singh has said that he will talk to Prime Minister over the issue of anti-Islam obscene material on Facebook and ask him to frame a strict law to prevent it," said a statement from the ruling Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh. Mr Yadav said that he will also raise the issue in Parliament.

The SP leader made this statement after party president of the Mumbai unit Abu Azmi informed him of such content.


Terror group letters reveal links with Pak army, plans to target India



Letters purportedly sent by the United Jehad Council, a terror group which operates out of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, reveal elaborate plans to target India, including how militants should infiltrate and the routes they should use. They also reveal a connection with the Pakistan Army.

NDTV has access to these letters, most of which were sent out in November last year. The extent of the spread of the terror network and is apparent from these letters. One letter is addressed to the Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar e Taiba, increasingly seen as more deadlly than even the Al Qaida. another letter is addressed to the Azad J&K Brigade of the Pakistani Army.

In detailed terror strategy, there is mention of five entry points or "launching camps" from where militants plan to infiltrate India - Hassan Forward Kahuta, Nakiyal, Khoi Ratta, Samahni and Dhali Bagh. Militants are asked in these letters to target Indian army camps, places of worship and VIPs.


In keeping with the Lashkar's shadowy modus operandi, one letter says that the terror group must not claim responsibility for any attack. Another says that the Pakistani Army must provide covering fire only if a militant unit is surrounded by the Indian army and there is exchangeof fire.  Several incdents of cease-fire violations from across the border seem to bear this out.

Militants going to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for training are asked in a letter to ensure they return to their "launching camp" by nightfall.

The letters give an insight into what seem like deep links between the militants and the Pakistani army. They talk about the militants deciding on the level of engagement with the Army. One letter says, "The launching of militants will be conveyed to just a few army officers, but not before the actual commencement of the launching."

There also seem to differences. Purportedly addressed to a Pakistani army commander based in PoK near the Line of Control, one letter says: "The Pakistani army is not implementing the decisions made by the United Jehad Council."

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