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"The Yemeni-American cooperation, including the use of friendly aircraft, will continue," Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi told reporters in Sanaa."Yemen is one of the countries that joined the international alliance to combat terrorism after the September 11," 2001 attacks on the United States, he said.
Washington has been stepping up its support for Yemen's battle against militants of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which it regards as the most active and deadliest franchise of the global jihadist network.
"The Yemeni-American cooperation, including the use of friendly aircraft, will continue," Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi told reporters in Sanaa.
"Yemen is one of the countries that joined the international alliance to combat terrorism after the September 11," 2001 attacks on the United States, he said.
Washington has been stepping up its support for Yemen's battle against militants of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which it regards as the most active and deadliest franchise of the global jihadist network.
He was 62. His agent, Philippa Brophy, says Cramer died yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications of lung cancer. He lived with his wife, Joan, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The victim told the police that she had come here to attend hearing in a case in the Gujarat High Court on November 1, 2012. As she knew no one in the city, she came in contact with Qureshi, posted as a security officer at the HC.
He said sparrow is a bird which lives near human habitations and not in jungle and makes their dwellings in urban homes.
Kumar said increase in pollution, rising number of mobile towers and pesticides in food-grains were contributing to dwindling population of the winged beings.
"The third accused Udeyveer was arrested last night," a senior police officer said today. The accused, who was presented before the district court later in the day, was sent to 14 days judicial custody. According to the officer, initial medical report of the woman did not confirm rape and police are now waiting for the final report.
"Her body, however, showed signs that a rape attempt was made," he said.
Farhan's wife and Bollywood actress Ayesha Takia tweeted: Im an individual n have my own mentality which doesn't match any regressive way of thinking at all! Comments made by anyone,even sumone close to me, when they r regressive,, they do not reflect my thoughts n mindset.
The Indian Army had said in a release earlier, "A group of their (Pakistan's) regular soldiers intruded across the LoC in the Mendhar Sector on January 8. A firefight broke out between the two sides, and continued for approximately half an hour after which the intruders retreated towards their side of the LoC. Two soldiers -- Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh-- laid down their lives."
The firing started at 8.45 pm.
More details are awaited.
The weapons and other material carried by the dead and injured jawans were taken away by the Pakistani troops, the sources added
CNN IBN says that the bodies may have been mutilated, but there is no confirmation from the northern command.
And it's time to play cricket again.
The Pakistani personnel were wearing black headgear.
Devang Aman ki aasha!!! Aur karo goverment of india: Pak army violates ceasefire again, kills two Indian soldiers"
Pawan Durani: Aman screws Asha again RT @timesnow: #BreakingNow - Pak provokes again: Pak soldiers kill 2 Indian Army jawans in unprovoked violence in LOC
RockyandMayur: MEA's response to Indian Army soldiers killing across the LOC. Dear Pakistan - dont do it again, its important for us. SHAME SHAME SHAME
Anuj Tela: Pak army violates ceasefire again, kills two Indian soldiers. TheekHai says Mannu..
He was speaking after paying tribute to the Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia bought by an Indian businessman at the International Airport. Former Army chief V K Singh was also present on the occasion.
Hazare added that it was also important that family members should inculcate strong values in children. He, however, declined to comment on the recent remarks made by spiritual leader Asaram Bapu and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in connection with the Delhi gang rape.
So much for Aman ki Asha.
Section 295 A: Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.
Section 298, IPC: Uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings.
Section 153 A: Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony.
Section 121: Waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against the Government of India -- Firstpost.com
He added that Owaisi had requested the police to allow him to go home and pick up his toileteries and grab a bite, but he was not allowed to do so.
"He has not even eaten breakfast today since he had to undergo medical tests. . We have not been given a copy of the medical report. But we know that he is not in a fit state of health. My client has never wanted to evade the law. He has acute pain because of his hernia; he is suffering. He will collapse if he takes pain His sciatica nerve is giving him intense pain, but he cannot take pain killers as he will collapse," said Khan. .
So the wind has been knocked out of Owaisi's sail, at least for now.
Also read: Akbaruddin Owaisi's journey to national 'notoriety'
The police are likely to keep him under medical supervision. Although the medical report cited three problems, the police said that it was not good enough to evade arrest. The cases are non-bailable and he will therefore be in police custody.
His medical report says that he has hernia and abdominal problems and that he also has a bullet lodged in his right leg. The MIM leader avoided arrest yesterday citing medical reasons and had sought four days time to appear before the police. The medical test will determine whether Owaisi is fit for further questioning. Owaisi who has been detained for a series of hate speeches against Hindus Details awaited.
Lalita Singh: Vulgarity,fashion & nudity r causes for violence against women. U think 2 yr olds trying to be fashion babes too?
Stereotypewriter: Revered Asaram Bapu has just passed the baton to respectable Abu Azmi in this never-ending crap-talk relay. Please clap.
sharmishtha sheth: Funny how the sound of the first two letters of their names is common for ASaram Bapu and Abu AZmi. Explains a few things.
Hersh Lulla And one more to the list. Abu Asim Azmi. And India is supposedly a secular, sensible democracy. Not while they breathe...
Wonder what his daughter-in-law Ayesha Takia has to say on this.
The MIM leader avoided arrest yesterday citing medical reasons and had sought four days time to appear before the police. The medical test will determine whether Owaisi is fit for further questioning. Owaisi who has been detained for a series of hate speeches against Hindus
Obviously, Asaram calls himself an elephant, and his critics, dogs. Asaram had said that the Delhi gang rape victim was equally to blame for the rape. He said she should have begged and pleaded before the six drunk men to let her go and called them her 'brothers'. He had also said that had the girl chanted the Saraswati mantra she would not have got into the bus or gone out for a movie with her friend.
Left sources also claimed that three persons received bullet injuries and were admitted to hospital. TMC leader Arabul Islam, accused by the CPI(M) of of leading the attack against Mollah on Sunday, counter claimed that his car was fired on allegedly by Marxist workers who tried to kill him as a result of which he fell off and was rescued by party workers. Superintendent of Police Pravin Tripathi, when asked, admitted that some incidents had take place, but could not give details immediately.
He felt this will help expedite conviction in rape cases. "The victim can seek legal assistance even from private lawyers and the fees will be borne by the state government. They will be appointed as special public prosecutors," Patil said.
"The big picture challenge is that the (business) environment is going to be tougher and more complex than it was in 1991. In 1991, there were less people aspiring to succeed in this newly opened economy. Today there are many," he said in an interview published by Time magazine.
The new women police constables have been trained in arms and will be posted in women police stations across the state, he said. Additional Director General of Police, Headquarters, Ravinder Kumar said there are 1500 police women, officer as well constables, in the state at present.
Women police stations were set up in all 40 police districts in the state in 2012 for effective hearing of crimes pertaining to dowry and other family disputes. Out of 40 women police stations in the state, 33 have women station house officers, while 7 others are run by male SHOs due to shortage of women staff.
Radia become a household name ever since a news magazine published taped conversations from her phone over a six-month period in 2009. The 5,800 tapes have revealed, among other things, how key portfolios were allocated when the Union Cabinet was formed after the victory of the Congress-led UPA in May 2009, with the lobbyist, who counts the Tatas and Ambanis among her clients, in the thick of it.
"We had immense respect for Asaram Bapu and also have many books related to him, but as soon as we get back to Delhi we would put them on fire," the brother of the deceased said terming the statement as "very cheap"
"Godman or saints can never say anything of this sort... It only exposes his mentality," the family said. Asaram Bapu had yesterday said that the rape and murder would not have happened if the victim had called the rapist killers her brothers. Referring to the growing incidents of rape, the family said that strict laws were necessary to check the crime against women and also for changing the attitude of the people.
Incidentally, the Ramkrishna Math and Mission have been entirely silent on the remarks made by Asaram Bapu blaming the rape victim for the incident.
The buzz is that since FDI in retail was approved by the Parliament -- the leader of the Indian delegation should have been Finance Minister P Chidambaram or Commerce Minister Anand Sharma. On the other hand, Chidambaram is expected to be busy with the 2013 Budget preparations, which means Kamal Nath is a certainty to head the delegation to Davos.
The Prime Minister did not speak a word [we are hardly surprised], but another senior minister said the since VK SIngh hared a dais with Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev -- he should be treated like Ramdev.
A union minister who recently got a position in the CCS after his elevation to Raisina Hills agreed to withdraw not only the security, but also the facilities provided to VK Singh like free phones and army cars.
It created a stir in the women's movement -- and in my family -- and then it quietly disappeared. Then, last week, I looked at my e-mail and there it was. As part of the outpouring of public rage after a young woman's rape and death in Delhi, somebody posted the article online and it went viral. Since then, I have received a deluge of messages from people expressing their support. Read
"Issue notice (to Delhi Police). You file your counter within two weeks as to how the government can delegate the power to invoke section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrpC) for a period extending up to six months. "You can't uniformly, just like that, extend the operation of section 144 as it is in contrast with the fundamental rights of the citizens," said a bench headed by Chief Justice D Murugesan.
The court, which had fixed the matter for today for issuing directions on a plea for framing guidelines for imposing prohibitory orders under the CrPC, issued the notice to Delhi police and asked it to file a detailed reply. The court slated the matter for further hearing on February 6.
Arunabhash returned to India on 24th April with the children and has since then been taking care of them at his home at Kulti in Burdwan district where he lives with his parents.
In June, Sagarika applied to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Burdwan to intervene in the matter and have the children handed back to her. The CWC has now decided that the mother should get the custody of the kids.
"Somewhere, the Andhra Pradesh Government and the Owaisi clan, they are mixed up. It is a fixed match,' Punj said.
"Owaisi has made a highly criminal and an anti-national speech. Any serious government would arrest right at the time he stepped out of aircraft and would not have allowed the crowd there," he added.
"We have no answer to this rising spate of crimes against women. Star are not in position," Kanwar said. "Harm can come on a person if the stars are in adverse positions...We have no answer to this, only an astrologer can predict," the state Home Minister said.
Kanwar's remarks yesterday came after opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh demanded the dismissal of the BJP government over the issue of the alleged rape on minor inmates of a government-run residential school for tribal girls in Kanker district. Chief Minister Raman Singh today quipped, "Now, what do I say on this." Two persons, including a teacher, have been arrested for allegedly raping the minor inmates of the government-run residential school.
"Wake up, wake up," she told him. "It's already very late1 o'clock."
The two agreed to meet. And so began an innocent outing that set in motion a killing that would horrify the world. More
According to most of the English press, Bhagwat, a chauvinistic prig, had the temerity to make a public speech stating that women are bound to look after their husbands by contract, and if they didn't fulfil their duties, their husbands could and should leave them.
And that a woman's place is in the kitchen doing household chores. Many news channels ran with the story. And their public school educated reporters and editors tweeted and retweeted gleefuly with gay abandon, exposing the shakha-types.
Only problem, Bhagwat -- whose main sin appears to be that he wears khaki bermudas despite the effect the vision might have on unsuspecting viewers '" has been misquoted. Read
While expressing his shock over the incident on the sidelines of a function that he was attending here, General Singh said: "I neither blame the officer, nor do I blame the Army for this. But, I blame those, who directed him to do that. Maybe, he was ordered in such a way that he had to do that work.
"So, in this case, what is important to know is that who has ordered him to do that and why because such things are not part of the army's protocol, as it has basic protocol and courtesy.'
Earlier, this morning the Nirmal rural police at Adilabad district issued a notice to Akbaruddin to make himself present for the medical examination.
Investigating officer A Raghu had found Akbaruddin fit enough to face police inquiry in connection with the case filed against him for the alleged provocative speech.
However, the MIM legislator had informed that he was suffering from pain and had sought four days time to appear before the Nirmal police for questioning. After this, the police had last night decided that he will be subjected to medical examination today.
"In view of his medical examination police issued a notice to him to come to the Gandhi Hospital where government doctors will carry out his medical examination. Once the medical test is complete, a certificate will be issued and based on it further course of action will be taken," another senior police officer said.
Organising a DJ party is out of bounds and a complete prohibition on liquor has also been issued.
The decision was taken by the panchayat at Khedar village. Sarpanch Shamsher Singh said, "We have decided to ban alcohol as it is the main reason behind rapes. We have also banned jeans and T-shirts for girl students as it is not a proper dress." More on the TOI.
The minimum was registered at 2.4 degrees Celsius yesterday, five notches below normal while the maximum stayed seven degrees below normal at 13.4 degree Celsius. The weatherman had predicted mainly clear skies for today with the maximum hovering around 13 degrees Celsius.
But the Bhagalpur Garib Rath that he boarded had not arrived in Delhi till Monday morning. The railway websites aid the train was 48 hours behind schedule. Like Kumar, the schedules of thousands of passengers have been thrown totally off-track across fog-hit north India and beyond. The delays this season have been more severe then previous years, exposing the railways' inability to deal with the situation. Moreon the TOI
The US is safer and more secure than it was four years ago, and has reached a turning point after more than a decade of war, the outgoing Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.
"Because of the outstanding dedication of our intelligence and military professionals, America is safer and more secure than it was four years ago, and we have reached a turning point after more than a decade of war," Panetta said in his remarks at the White House.
US President Barack Obama Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, the former Republican Senator from Nebraska, as his next defence secretary to replace Panetta and John Brennan as his next CIA director.
"And on that, as we've reached that turning point, we've developed a new defence strategy for the 21st century. We have, with John's leadership, decimated Al Qaeda's leadership and weakened their effort to attack this country," Panetta said in his statement.
"We have brought wars in Iraq and we will bring the war in Afghanistan to an honorable conclusion. We've opened up opportunities for all Americans to serve in our military. And we continue to strongly support our forces, their families, and our wounded warriors. These are some of the achievements that I am proud of," he said.
Panetta said after being in public life for five decades he would return to private life and to his home in California.
AFP: The alleged gunman behind the Colorado theatre shooting was "relaxed" and compliant when arrested after the massacre which killed 12 people, an officer told a court hearing Monday.
James Holmes, who was wearing body armour and a mask, told police his name and volunteered that there were improvised explosive devices rigged up in his apartment, when detained after the shooting last July in Aurora, Colorado.
Holmes, sporting dark brown hair and a full beard, was led into court in handcuffs at the start of a week-long hearing expected to hear more details about the shooting, which revived America's perennial debate over gun control.
Clad in dark red prison scrubs, Holmes -- who had bright orange hair when he first appeared in court last July -- stared straight ahead and talked to no-one in the courtroom, as relatives of the victims looked on.
Aurora policeman Jason Oviatt told the court how he at first thought Holmes was another officer when he arrived with dozens of other police, in response to 911 calls about the midnight shooting at a screening of the new Batman film.
Image: Police photograph of James Holmes | Photograph: Reuters
The Taliban Monday claimed it had not received a "serious response" from the Pakistan government to its offer for peace talks, which could be jeopardised by the stance adopted by the army.
The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan clarified its position on the proposed peace talks in an email sent to journalists by spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan, who said the group had not got "any serious response on our offer for talks". The Taliban "do not have any trust in (the) army for talks being successful, so we need some surety about (the) army", Ihsan said.
Current steps towards talks "are in danger (because of) the mood of the army", he claimed.
Much before the US carried out the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden without informing Pakistan, the Bill Clinton administration had little faith in Islamabad when it came to sharing important intelligence information, a former top American general said today.
Gen (rtd) Stanley McChrystal in his book, "My Share of the Task: A Memoir" which hit the stands today, says that as a result of the lack of trust with the Pakistani leadership, the latter were given just 10 minutes notice when the Clinton administration launched a barrage of missiles in August, 1998, entering the Pakistani airspace.
"So they gave the Pakistanis notice, but just barely: Over a late-night chicken tikka dinner in Islamabad on the night of August 20 (1998), Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Ralston told the head of the Pakistani army, General Jehangir Karamat, that in ten minutes, missiles would be entering Pakistani airspace," McChrystal wrote.
The US today asked India and Pakistan to take steps to end the exchange of fire and resume normal trade and travel across the Line of Control.
"We urge both sides to take steps to end exchanges of fire and to resume normal trade and travel across the line of control," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters.
Nuland was responding to questions on news reports of firing by the Pakistani forces across the LoC on Indian posts. India said its troops retaliated after unprovoked shelling by Pakistan destroyed a home.
Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has been awarded the Ballon d'Or for the fourth season in a row. Messi, 25, hit 91 goals during 2012 and beat club team-mate Andres Iniesta and Real Madrid's Ronaldo to the trophy.
Despite his goals, the Catalan giants failed to win either the Spanish league title or Champions League last year.
US President Barack Obama has named a maverick former Republican senator as defence secretary, despite a political backlash over the nomination. Chuck Hagel would replace Leon Panetta at the Pentagon, but Mr Hagel's fellow Republicans have questioned the Nebraskan's views towards Israel.
Mr Obama has also picked his counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan as director of the CIA. Both appointments must be confirmed by the Senate.
Mr Obama, who has just returned from a family holiday in Hawaii, said at a White House press conference that Mr Hagel was "the leader our troops deserve".
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