Washington: Cancer-stricken Jade Goody has begged doctors to allow her to go home so that she could spend her final days with her beloved sons. The former Big Brother star has requested doctors at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital to let her return to Freddie, four, and five-year-old Bobby. “She will be coming home tomorrow - but only if nurses are able to keep her pain at bay,” the Sun quoted Goody’s spokesman Max Clifford, as...

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New York: Private equity company Blackstone Group LP CEO Stephen Schwarzman said on Tuesday that up to 45 percent of the world’s wealth has been destroyed by the global credit crisis. “Between 40 and 45 percent of the world’s wealth has been destroyed in little less than a year and a half,” Schwarzman told an audience at the Japan Society. “This is absolutely unprecedented in our lifetime.” But the U.S. government is committed...

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Hamilton: They rightly say records are meant to be broken. When Mohammad Azharuddin slammed a ton off just 62 deliveries, it was there to stay, but not forever. Sehwag, the Delhi dasher, tore apart the New Zealand bowling to become India’s fastest centurion of all times. He scored his third ton against New Zealand off just 60 odd balls. India were declared the winners by 84 runs (D/L method) and they now have an unassailable lead...

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The stage is set and it’s time to conquer the World, the Universe and the Earth as well! The 20 Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2009 finalists are ready to set the stage on fire. Confident, fun loving, graceful yet flamboyant — the girls are here to make their mark. The 20 finalists who were unveiled in Mumbai on Monday (March 9), surely seem to be having a lot of fun but there’s a lot of hardwork and training coming their way for...

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Islamabad: Amidst a political showdown between the government and the Opposition, Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and discussed the political and security situation in the country. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari, who is on a visit to Iran, is believed to have been asked not to return. The two leaders met at a time when President Asif Ali Zardari is out of the...

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NEW DELHI: India will pass on DNA samples of the lone surviving Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab and his nine dead accomplices to Interpol and Pakistan in current week, Indian newspaper report said. Home secretary Madhukar Gupta discussed the matter with CBI director Ashwani Kumar — who heads India, Interpol — in a meeting. The discussion centred around what India could share with Interpol at this juncture. The meeting was held a day...

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NEW DELHI: India will pass on DNA samples of the lone surviving Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab and his nine dead accomplices to Interpol and Pakistan in current week, Indian newspaper report said. Home secretary Madhukar Gupta discussed the matter with CBI director Ashwani Kumar — who heads India, Interpol — in a meeting. The discussion centred around what India could share with Interpol at this juncture. The meeting was held a day...

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GURGAON: A shocked family of the teenaged medical student, who was ragged and beaten to death allegedly by his seniors in Himachal Pradesh, today said the boy was subjected to immense violence and demanded action against the medical college where he was studying. Aman Satya Kachroo (19), a first year student of Dr Rajendra Prasad medical college in Kangra, breathed his last on Sunday night in a hospital after being beaten up allegedly...

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TANDA: The Himachal Pradesh police on Tuesday booked four senior medical students for causing the death of a first semester student on Sunday by ragging and severely beating him up in a government medical college in the hill state’s Kangra district. The victim, 19-year-old Aman Kachroo, died on Sunday - a few hours after being ragged late Saturday by four final year students of the Rajindra Prasad medical college at Tanda town,...

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DHARAMSALA: A Delhi Public School student who had taken admission in a medical school in Himachal Pradesh last year met with a horrible death at the hands of seniors who are training to be doctors.Aman Kachroo (19), who passed out of DPS International in Saket and enrolled at the Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Tanda, in Kangra last August had repeatedly complained to his parents about the brutal ragging that took place on...

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COLOMBO: At least eight persons were killed and 20 including a Sri Lankan minister were wounded in suicide attack in a mosque in Sri Lankan south, police said. Sri Lankan Minister of Communication Mohinda Vijaysekera was also wounded in the attack, sources said. A religious ceremony was being held in the mosque and local political leaders were also present in the mosque when a suicide bomber blown up, sources said.Source: ww...

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has zeroed in on the alleged mastermind of last week’s terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a media report said on Monday. “The Lahore police have named the mastermind as Mohammad Aqeel. A raid was conducted on his hideout but he managed to escape,” Geo TV said. “His accomplice Talat has been arrested,” the channel added. Eight Pakistanis, including six security personnel, were killed and...

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Mumbai: Satyam Computer Services has begun the procedure of selecting an investor by inviting expressions of interest from bidders. SEBI has recently authorized Satyam to sell up to 51 percent stake. Under the process that started on Monday, the bidders will have to submit detailed EoIs, along with proof of availability of funds of at least 1,500 crore rupees by March 20, Satyam said in a statement. On Monday, the company issued...

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WELLINGTON: Captain Daniel Vettori will return to the New Zealand team and paceman Tim Southee has been dropped as the home side attempt to stop rampant India from sealing a one-day series victory. Sachin Tendulkar’s brilliant unbeaten 163 led India to a 58-run win and a 2-0 series lead in Christchurch on Sunday, with two games left to play.WATCH LIVE CRICKET MATCHVettori was missing from that game as he joined his wife, Mary,...

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Dhaka: As agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived here to help probe last week’s mutiny, Right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party on Sunday accused India of being behind the killings inside the Bangladesh border guards’ headquarters. “The killing mission was executed from Indian intelligence headquarters through close monitoring,” Matiur Rahman Nizami, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, said while addressing a meeting...

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Jerusalem: Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav will be charged with several serious sexual offenses including rape, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has announced. Mazuz is ready to indict Moshe Katsav on charges stemming from sexual offenses, including rape, allegedly committed while he was President and Tourism Minister. The Justice Ministry has been plagued by complications in the case since it first broke in July 2006, including...

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New Delhi: Pakistani government should cooperate in the Mumbai attacks case and those behind it should be punished, former President Pervez Musharraf has said even as he criticised India for “creating war hysteria” over the issue. “It was most unfortunate. It was a terrorist act. Terrorists have no nationality,” Musharraf said at a seminar when asked for his comment on the Mumbai attacks which was different from earlier terror...

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Islamabad: Indicative of the growing clout of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) despite an apparent crackdown by the Pakistani authorities, US security experts believe that the terror group and not Al Qaeda has emerged as the main threat and could well stage the next major attack on the American mainland. “We are and should be concerned about the threat LeT poses, given its global network,” Juan Zarate, deputy national security adviser...

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NEW DELHI: The army in Pakistan has begun to flex its muscle. Pakistan’s army chief general Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, who has so far kept a low profile, has asked President Asif Ali Zardari to ‘clean up the mess’ soon. Well-placed military sources in Islamabad said Kiyani has been asked by the United States to bring some order in the region. After his recent visit to Washington, Kiyani held a meeting with top Pakistani army commanders...

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Jaipur: Riding on the wave of support from the Rajasthan government and prevailing anti-Modi sentiments, IAS officer Sanjay Dixit defeated IPL commissioner Lalit Modi for the top job in the RCA election by five votes on Sunday. The AGM of RCA began at 10.00 am with 32 district units voting at the future cricket academy from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm. While Dixit polled 18 votes, Modi got just 13. Dixit acknowledged that it was a tough...

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MUMBAI: After a whopping loss of over Rs 40,00,000 crore in 2008, the stock market is continuing its free-fall and investors have lost an average of Rs 100 crore in every five minutes of trade in first two months of 2009. Cumulatively, the total investors’ wealth has got eroded by about Rs 2,82,000 crore so far this year. However, the meltdown has been less severe so far this year, as compared to 2008 when an average of Rs 100...

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Mumbai: The Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Toiba, had plans to set up an operational base in a rented accommodation in posh Colaba in south Mumbai in early 2008 to coordinate the 26/11 terror plan, according to investigators. The plan could not materialize because of some reasons, and finally, the ‘operational base’ was set up in Room No.14, Batatawala Chawl, Nagpada, also in south Mumbai. Incidentally, Badhwar Park in...

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Singapore: Three Indian workers were killed and two others badly injured in a toxic spill at a chemical plant in Singapore, officials said on Sunday. The workers suffered severe burns on Friday when nitric acid leaked from a heat exchange unit of the Chemic Industries plant located in Tuas, an industrial zone in the southwest of Singapore. Officials said two workers were killed instantaneously when the leak occurred, while another...

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New Delhi: At a staggering Rs 10,000 crore, the Lok Sabha polls this summer would cost more than what Barack Obama and others spent in the US Presidential race. According to information available with the US Federal Election Commission, Obama and other candidates collectively spent close to USD 1.8 billion (nearly Rs 8,000 crore) in the 2007-08 Presidential Elections. A survey conducted by Centre for Media Studies (CMS) back home...

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New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Sunday rejected Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami’s recommendation for removal of Naveen Chawla as EC. In the first month of this year, Gopalaswami had forwarded a suo moto request to Patil demanding the removal of Chawla from the post, accusing him of partisanship. A Rashtrapati Bhawan communique said President Pratibha Patil has accepted the government recommendation for...

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