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This brings us to the end of Live! news today. Before you sign out, here's a pick of the top stories today. France rages over Strauss-Khan handcuff pics WB CM-elect Mamata quits as railway minister Sonia at Varanasi: Bhatta-Parsaul shameful Raja in Time mag's 'Ignominous leaders' list...
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Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil today declined to react to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement blaming the Mumbai police for inclusion of the Mulund blast accused Wazhul Kamar Khan in the list of 50 most wanted fugitives handed over to Pakistan. Khan was found to be living in...
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On bbc.co.uk: The parading of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs by US police has caused a furore in France, which prohibits such pictures. The former IMF chief was given the so-called perp walk treatment after being arrested for alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid in New York. It has...
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The bbc.co.uk reports thatat least 35 construction workers have been shot dead and 20 injured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Eight insurgents were also killed as guards returned fire during Wednesday night's ambush. The Taliban recently declared the start of a spring offensive...
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Mamata Banerjee has resigned as the union railway minister. However, the Trinamool will hold on to the portfolio. She will be sworn in as West Bengal chief minister tomorrow. Unconfirmed reports say Mamata will head a 43-member ministry of which Congress may get seven portfolios.
17:29
Black and white images of the The Great Depression. Must see.
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Sonia Gandhi is addressing the Congress party's plenary in Varanasi. Today is the second and final day. She says, in a bit of a fire and brimstone speech that what happened in Bhatta-Parsaul was shameful and promises development work in the UP. She says the government will introduce the Land...
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Former Telecom Minister A Raja, at the centre of the 2G spectrum allocation scam, has earned the dubious distinction of figuring in the list of Time Magazine's an ignominious club of privileged leaders who stepped too far. The 2G scam is ranked No 2 in the list of scandals and scams in the...
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Chairperson of the National Award jury JP Dutta says on his pronounciation, I'm sorry I didn't do my homework. I was too tired after watching all those films.
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And now, National Awards for tweets: SonakshiSinha wins national award for the BEST FOREHEAD that can be substituted for an aircraft runway! Katrina Kaif wins national award for best sex scene with a mango National Award Badnaam Hui Dabangg Tere Liye Uday Chopra wins National Award for...
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Some others... Best Art & Culture Film: Leaving Home (Indian Ocean Film) Best Special Effects: Enthiran Best AudiographyAward: Ishqiya
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Best music direction: Vishal Bharadwaj (Ishqiya) Best lyrics: Vairamuthu Special jury award: Mee Sindhutai Sakpal Best Hindi film: Do Dooni Char Best Marathi Film: Mala aai vhhaychy Best English Film: Memories in March JP Dutta's done with stumbling through the names. All he need to have...
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JP Dutta struggles through the names as he reads out the awards. Best feature film: Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam) Best playback singer (female): Rekha Bharadwaj for Ishqiya Best playback singer (male): Suresh Wadkar Nargis Dutt Award for best feature film on national integration: Moner...
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The 58th National Film Awards are being announced in New Delhi. What we have right now... Best non-feature film: Germ Best Debut Non-feature film: Pistulia Best promo film: Ek Lopa Dhan Dabangg wins award for wholesome entertainment. Best Art and culture film: Leaving Home Best...
15:15
The intensity of solar storms is expected to peak in 2013 and may devastate critical infrastructure like satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment, a top scientist has warned. Kathryn Sullivan, assistant secretary of the US National Oceanic and...
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Love rat Arnold Schwarzenegger was last night revealed to have splashed out on a £200,000 pad for his buxom housekeeper Mildred Baena and their secret son, reports the Sun.co.uk. The four-bed retirement gift was bought 10 months ago while the Terminator star was still duping his wife Maria...
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The stand-off between Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj and Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on convening of the Legislature session from June 2 took another turn today with the BJP government threatening a state-wide stir if approval for holding it was not given by this evening. By this evening,...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid his mafia godfathers 3,00,000 pounds a year in protection money, a mobster told a court yesterday. Giovanni Brusca, known as il Porco -- the Pig, -- claimed Berlusconi handed over the cash to have things kept in order when he was a businessman. He...
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Superstar Rajinikanth's wife addresses the media outside the Chennai hospital where he is in the ICU. She says, all his organs are fine and he has been taken to the ICU to ensure he gets proper rest. She says the family wants peace and privacy at this time. She says Rajini had an infection,...
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Now, a Daily Mail (trust them to dig up the dirt) report says Dominique Strauss-Kahn who quit as IMF chief today, paid an infamous brothel madam $2,500 for escort girls. Kristin Davis, 35, claimed the IMF chief used the services of Wicked Models twice in 2006. The Frenchman, who was not in...
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Pakistan's best friend, China, has asked the United States to respect Pakistan's sovereignty, understand its problems, address its concerns and acknowledge the sacrifices rendered by it in the war against terror. The Pakistani paper Dawn reports that during a meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf...
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Sushma Swarajtweets: Here is another blunder. CBI reached Copenhagen with an expired warrant for Kim Davy. Big embarrassment for the country. Is anybody accountable in this Government?
13:32
The five-year old girl who went missing from the Marina Beach on May 11 during a family outing has been found. She has been admitted to a Chennai hospital for treatment. Details of how she went missing are still awaited. Thamana, daughter of Syed Noor Ahmed of Royapettah went missing from the...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's child with his former housekeeper continues a rich tradition of sex with domestic employees. From Jude Law to Rob Lowe, the list runs on... Read
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It is estimated that a whopping 400 million dollars at may be at stake in the divorce between Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger was a self-made movie star and Shriver was a Kennedy, who had worked in broadcasting for many years. According to the scant details...
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Imagine a tiny sparrow of a woman in a crumpled white sari, in a narrow, crowded lane inKolkata, yelling colloquially into a microphone, asking the heaving, sweating sea of people around her to go home and bathe and relax. All around her is a jubilant crescendo: conch shells blowing, drums...
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A 37-year old Afghan detainee has died at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide, the US military said today. The man, identified by one name, Inayatullah, was an admitted planner for Al Qaeda terrorist operations and arrived in Guantanamo in September 2007. Inayatullah was the eighth person...
12:51
Details of the Naxal encounter in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. A commando of an elite anti-Naxal force was killed and two policemen were injured while fighting the ultras, two of whom also died, during an exchange of fire in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district this morning. The injured have been...
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Incidentally, a fierce gun battle is on between police and Naxals in Ghadchiroli, Maharashtra. One Naxal has been killed and two cops injured.
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Asmall commercial plane crashed in an isolated part of Patagonia in southern Argentina, killing all 22 people on board. We did not find anyone alive. There were no survivors. The plane is in multiple charred fragments. Everything is burnt and smashed to pieces, said local hospital director...
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It has emerged that in 2007 French President Nicholas Sarkozy had warned Dominique Strauss-Kahn to watch his behavior when he became the chief of the IMF. Over there [US] they don't joke about this sort of thing, Sarkozy had told Strauss-Kahn. Your life will be passed under a magnifying...
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A US court will today hear the bail plea of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned today as the head of the International Monetary Fund. Strauss-Kahn has been charged with a criminal sex act while the victim has testified that there was nothing consensual about the assault. Yesterday, the alleged...
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And the final bit of smut on the Schwarzeneggers... An expert has said that Arnold Schwarzenegger's revelation that he fathered a love child with housekeeper/assistant, who worked in their home for nearly two decades, might be 'like a personal 9/11' attack for his four children. This event...
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If sources are to be believed, then Arnold Schwarzenegger's estranged wife Maria Shriver has hired a divorce lawyer. Shriver split from actor husband after 25 years of marriage amid a love-child scandal. Prominent Los Angeles family law attorney Laura Wasser is now representing California's...
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Dirt on Arnold, his wife and the mistress... It has emerged that Arnold Schwarzenegger''s mistress Mildred Patricia Baena separated from her husband just days after giving birth to the actor's love child. When Baena did file for divorce from Rogelio de Jesus Baena in 2008 in Los Angeles,...
11:45
Bollywood actress Minissha Lamba, detained by Customs officials at the international airport in Mumba for allegedly not declaring gold and diamond jewellery worth over Rs 50 lakh, was let off after 16 hours of questioning. Lamba was allowed to go at 1 am after 16 hours of questioning and...
11:41
A British spy turned arms dealer has told a Copenhagen court that Danish national Kim Davy aka Neils Holck, the prime accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, will not survive if he is extradited and forced to stand trial in India. Giving evidence in the extradition hearing of Davy, Peter...
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Just in: Tamil Nadu chief ministerJ Jayalalithaa terms as 'betrayal' the denial of berths to the AIADMK in Puducherry by Chief Minister N Rangasamy.
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In case you were planning to congratulate her... Shilpa Shetty tweets: Sick and tired of all the congratulatory msgs and calls,so for the last time I AM NOT PREGNANT.all this is so annoying..grrrrrrrrr
11:15
This is what former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn wrote in his resignation letter. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF. I think at...
11:10
US officials have said there was no evidence indicating leaders in Islamabad knew Osama Bin Laden had been hiding in Pakistan. But defence secretary Robert Gates said he believed somebody in Pakistan knew the whereabouts of the Al Qaeda chief, reports bbc.co.uk. Top military officer Adm Mike...
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Details of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation. Dominique Strauss-Kahn today resigned as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, but continued to insist he was innocent. Strauss-Kahn is locked up in a New York prison since Saturday when he was bundled out of a Paris-bound...
10:55
Citigroup awarded Chief Executive Vikram Pandit a multimillion-dollar package to keep him at the helm for at least four more years, a vote of confidence in an executive who almost was ousted in the financial crisis. The Wall Street Journal reports taht Pandit will receive a multiyear, $10...
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Superstar Rajinikanth's condition worsened on Wednesday with doctors putting him through dialysis at a Chennai hospital, two days after he underwent a procedure to drain fluid accumulated in his lungs. The Tamil superstar was also shifted to the hospital's intensive care unit from the private...
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Good morning. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as the managing director.His lawyerwill file forbail today.DSK has been accused of sexually molesting a maid at his hotel room in New York,a short distance fromRikers prison which is 'home' for now. Superstar Rajnikant is in ICU, where he...
