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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Sachin Tendulkar equals Sunil Gavaskar's record of first class 100s

MUMBAI: Adding another feather to his crowded cap, Sachin Tendulkar on Friday equalled Sunil Gavaskar's record of most first-class hundreds by cracking a superb unbeaten century against Rest of India on day three of the Irani Cup here.

HYDERABAD: Iran has urged the Indian Government to relax its visa norms and extend the ‘visa-on-arrival’ facility for its citizens who are visiting India, a senior Iranian diplomat said here today.

DHAKA: A passenger ferry capsized Friday after colliding with another ship on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.

Police said there were no immediate reports of casualties after the ferry, MV Sarash, went down on the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, 32 kilometers south of Dhaka.

Eminent personalities of the Indian diaspora, including steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and cricketer-turned-politician Mohammad Azharuddin, were among a host of Asians honoured here for their contribution in various fields.

At least 26 people have died in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shia Muslims in markets in Iraq, police and hospital sources say.

AJMER: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that his state is a safer place for women compared to New Delhi. He was reacting to media queries regarding action taken against those responsible for forcing a girls' band to wind up in his home state.

A large number of activists of Tamil groups from neighbouring Tamil Nadu on Friday entered the temple town of Tirupati to stall the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is scheduled to arrive there in the evening. Police arrested over 100 protesters, who sneaked into the town from Tamil Nadu. Security has been tightened across the town following intelligence reports that hundreds of protestors had already reached Tirupati.

PESHAWAR: A lawyer, who was also a member of the United Nation’s Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, was gunned down in Peshwar’s Gulbahar area on Friday, police sources confirmed.

CHIBOMBO: Fifty-three people were killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and a truck in Zambia on Thursday, the government said, one of the country’s worst-ever traffic accidents.

The bus carrying 73 passengers hurtled into an oncoming truck, leaving bloodied bodies and wreckage on a main road north of Lusaka.

Iran's Khamenei rejects US nuclear talks offer

Iran's supreme leader has dismissed a US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech posted online that the US was proposing talks while "pointing a gun at Iran".

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has that he believes the Syrian government is willing to negotiate ways with the opposition to bring a two-year bloody uprising against the regime to an end.

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minority MPA Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved an adjournment motion in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday against interior minister Rehman Malik, who reportedly declared non-Muslims as terrorists.

LAHORE, Pakistan : Ten million dollars does not seem to buy much in this bustling Pakistani city. That is the sum the United States is offering for help in convicting Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, perhaps the country’s best-known jihadi leader. Yet Mr. Saeed lives an open, and apparently fearless, life in a middle-class neighborhood here.

At least five suspected militants were killed Wednesday in a drone attack in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, a media report said.

The pilot-less predator plane targeted a house in Spin Wam area of North Waziristan along the border with Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.

The pressure on President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director and the architect of the White House strategy on drones, John Brennan has intensified after revelations of a secret CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia.

A person burnt alive his three children to death while his wife sustained serious burn injuries at Arania village under Jandaha police station area in Vaishali district late last night. Superintendent of Police Upendra Kumar Sinha said here today that one Devendra Singh suspected that his wife had stolen jewellery of his sister.

ISLAMABAD: Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri submitted on Thursday a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan seeking reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in accordance with the Constitution, DawnNews reported.

Drones are legal, ethical and wise: White House

WASHINGTON: The White House said on Tuesday that US drone strikes on potential terrorist targets were ‘legal,’ ‘ethical’ and ‘wise’ and would continue.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday blasted the Obama administration for continued drone strikes in Fata, calling the violation a “red line” that should not be crossed.

PESHAWAR: At least three people were killed in a suspected US drone attack in the North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.

Shoe thrown at Iranian president Ahmadinejad in Egypt

Egyptian security guards seized a man who tried to hit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a shoe when he visited an ancient mosque in downtown Cairo.

A video of the incident shows a man shouting "coward" before striking out. It is not clear what the motive was – some reports suggested it was against Iran's support for Syria's government. Ahmadinejad was forced to flee after the incident.

Later, anti-Iranian protesters raised their shoes up while blocking the main gates to Al-Azhar, the Sunni world's most prestigious religious institution, where Egypt's most prominent cleric chided Ahmadinejad for interfering in the affairs of Sunni nations.

SINGAPORE: A 32-year old engineer from India has been killed in a construction site accident here, a media report said on Wednesday.

Dharmalingam Selvam was thrown two to three metres from the pipe inspection site following an explosion on Monday and died on the spot on Singapore's Jurong Island.

Sabarkantha (Gujarat): Fifteen people on Wednesday received burn injuries after they dipped their hands in hot oil to convince a candidate, who lost in Panchayat elections, that they had voted for him, police said on Wednesday.

AMRITSAR: Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik has ordered an inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh.

Singh, 40, had died under mysterious circumstances in Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat, Lahore.

NEW DELHI: Sahar Lotfi finds it strange that an all-girls band in Kashmir has been hounded into silence. Where she comes from, her all-women group called the Ghazal Band has been blasting out Sufi music at public performances for more than a year. Lotfi and her band members live in Tehran, the centre of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution.

DHAKA: Police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at hundreds of activists from Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party during a second day of rioting sparked by the conviction of a top opposition figure for war crimes.

'Amanat' case: Software engineer testifies against accused in court

The trial of five men accused of raping and murdering a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi began today with the student's boyfriend, a software engineer, testifying against them in court.

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued notices to 23 members of the Punjab Assembly in connection with the dual nationality issue, DawnNews reported.

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of anti-Al Qaeda fighters as they were receiving salaries north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 22 people, the second bloody attack to hit Iraq in as many days.

The software engineer who tried to stop his friend, a medical student, from being gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in December arrived in court this morning in a wheelchair.

NEW DELHI: Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm lashed the capital since Monday night, breaking all previous records of single day rainfall in the last 50 years for the month of February.

LUCKNOW: A man in Agra has been arrested for "communal and inflammatory" posts on social networking site Facebook targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, union communications minister Kapil Sibal and Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, police said on Tuesday.

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case and identified several Facebook users who had posted abusive and threatening messages on the page of the only all-girls rock band of the Valley.

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court sentenced a senior Islamist opposition official to life in prison Tuesday for mass murder and crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

Abdul Quader Molla, 64, the fourth highest ranked leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, is the first politician to be found guilty by the International Crimes Tribunal, a much-criticised domestic court based in Dhaka.

LAHORE: One person was killed and five others injured when the roof of a house collapsed in Lahore, DawnNews reported.

A man was burned to death as riots rocked Dhaka ahead of a verdict on Tuesday against a senior Islamist opposition official accused of genocide during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is due to take part in a summit in Egypt thi s week, expressed his desire on Monday to visit the neighbouring Gaza Strip Asked in an interview on the Al Mayadeen news channel whether he would visit Gaza while in Cairo next week or before his term as president expires in June, he replied: "My wish is bigger than this. I wish to pray in Jerusalem after complete liberation."

At least 22 people died and 24 others were injured on Monday when the bus they were travelling in was involved in a road smash with a lorry in the UAE city of Al Ain, police said on Monday.

ISLAMABAD - Expressing solidarity with the people of Kashmir on the occasion of Kashmir Day on February 5, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday said Pakistan remained firmly committed to finding a just and peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute.

Renowned Sindhi writer, journalist Siraj Memon dies at 79

KARACHI: Acclaimed Sindhi language novelist, story-writer, scholar, journalist, historian and literary researcher and linguist, Siraj ul-Haq Memon, died of cardiac arrest in a private hospital of Karachi in the wee hours of Saturday.

Kabul : The spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairs of Afghanistan told a press conference that three Afghans were killed in Syria.

British troops in Afghanistan are now using 10-centimeter-long 16-gram spy helicopters to survey Taliban firing spots. The UK Defense Ministry plans to buy 160 of the drones under a contract worth more than $31 million.

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday welcomed “positive” demands by Pakistani Taliban of making Sharif, Hasan and himself guarantor for holding peace talks with the government, DawnNews reported.

Police officer survives bomb attack in Karachi

KARACHI: Terrorists’ plan to target a police officer was failed in Karachi’s Hawks Bay Road area on Monday morning when a planted bomb was detonated before time, DawnNews reported.

SHO Maripur’s police vehicle was targeted on Hawks Bay Road when he was expected to appear before a court. The untimely blast did not cause any casualty, however, the police vehicle was partially damaged.

Police reports suggest that around three kilos of explosive material was used in the attack. According to police officials they were being targeted for taking actions against “target killers.”

The incident spread fear among residents of the area.

Meanwhile, an absconder, involved in attacking president of the Malir Bar, was arrested two days after he had escaped from police custody on Friday.

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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will visit China this week to meet with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, in what Beijing said was part of its efforts to push for a political solution to end fighting in the country.

Jammu: After facing threats, Kashmir's first all girls music band is now facing a fatwa from Muslim clerics. Kashmir's Grand Mufti has condemned the rock band and issued a fatwa against them, saying music is bad for the society and women must be under a veil at all times.

The IPL 2013 auction was supposed to be a relatively quiet one where settled franchises looked to fill in a couple of holes in their squads but, as is the case every year, it had plenty of surprises. Most of the biggest earners were players barely known outside their home countries, while marquee names like Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting attracted only one bid each.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court framed charges on Monday against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, the third largest party in the Balochistan Assembly after the PML-Q and PPP, has offered its unconditional support for the ruling coalition to elect a new chief minister.

Lalu Prasad dubs Anna Hazare's Jantantra rally as 'flop show'

RJD President Lalu Prasad refused to attach any importance to the rally by anti-graft activist Anna Hazare here today and dubbed it as a 'flop show'.

"It is nothing but a flop show," he told reporters on his arrival at Patna airport.

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