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Star batsman Virat Kohli feels that one quality that he wishes to imbibe from his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the art of "staying calm" in pressure situations.
"One thing I like about him (Dhoni) is his calmness. I wish I could have some of it. He is someone who doesn't disclose too much which would let opposition know about what's going on in his mind. Wish I could get some of it," Kohli said. Growing up in the era of Sachin Tendulkar, Kohli found it difficult to imagine an Indian team without the senior batsman.
"For 23 years, he has taught us how to perform with so many people expecting you to score a century everyday. It is unbelievable. Growing up, I could never imagine a team without Tendulkar but someday, one needs to take that (retirement) decision," the 23-year-old batsman told NDTV.
Twelve persons were killed and four others were injured today when the jeep they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a gorge near Sankri in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district.
The vehicle slipped off the Mori-Jakholi road, which had become slippery after snowfall and fell into a deep gorge killing six persons on the spot, Purola sub-divisional magistrate Rajkumar Pandey said.
Among the injured admitted at a nearby hospital, six of them succumbed to their injuries, Pandey said. The remaining injured are still undergoing treatment at the hospital, he said.
Questioning the 'UA' certificate issued to Kamal Haasan's controversial film Vishwaroopam,Tamil Nadu government today alleged in the Madras high court that certification of films itself was a "very big scam" and sought a probe into it by a law enforcing agency.
Arguing before Justice K Venkataraman, Advocate General A Navaneethakrishnan said the "UA" certificate to Vishwaroopam was not issued by the Censor Board, but only by an Examining Committee not mandated by provisions of the Constitution.
Rejecting the charge, Additional Solicitor General Wilson said the certification was done by procedure. The application for certification came to the Censor Board on Oct 4, 2012, the film was viewed on Oct 8 and a show cause notice to cut certain scenes sent on October 10, he said. The cuts were accepted and removed and the final certification given on October 17. Scenes to a running time of 1.08 minutes were cut, he said.
The tossing of names of party leaders as BJP prime ministerial candidate for the next Lok Sabha polls were individual opinions and the nominee would be decided by BJP parliamentary board, senior party leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain today said.
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha had yesterday openly pitched for Modi, which attracted adverse reaction from JD(U) leaders, and today Shiv Sena voiced its support for Sushma Swaraj.
Asked for his comment on ties with NDA ally JD(U), which is against Narendra Modi's candidacy for prime ministership, Hussain told reporters "The relation (with JD(U)) is unbreakable and will remain intact."
Taking a critical view of the Centre's "dilly-dallying tactics" on formation of Telangana, BJP today said the government should stop playing with the sentiments of the local people and immediately form the separate state. "BJP condemns UPA government's dilly-dallying tactics on the issue of formation of a separate state of Telangana.
Government has gone back on its latest promise to take a final decision on the formation of Telangana by January 28, 2013," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
He maintained that the promise made by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in December after an all-party meeting on the issue has not been kept by the government. "This is yet another betrayal of the people of Telangana, which is unacceptable... The Centre is playing with the sentiments of the people," he said.
Resuming the construction of new nuclear plants in a big way after Fukushima disaster in Japan, China is on course to complete its first ever third-generation atomic power station.
The technology at the core of the plant is known is AP1000. The "third generation" energy project in Sanmen in east China's Zhejiang province is the largest ever joint China-US energy project, state-run CCTV reported. The construction is nearing completion as a 800 tonne steel structure is being put on top of the reactor chamber of the nuclear power unit.
It marks the completion of the main structure housing the reactor itself. The plant officials said that all the safety issues arising out of the Fukushmia disaster have been addressed.
Ting Qian, Sanmen AP1000 Deputy Manager of Westinghouse Industrial Products, said, "The risk is 100 times lower. It can work without power, the gravity and natural circulation will keep the vessel in water condition."
A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped and pushed into a well by two youth in Rajasthan's Dausa district, police said today. The duo, who were in an inebriated state, barged into the house of the 16-year-old victim last night and raped her, SHO, Nangal Rajawatan police station, Laxmikant Sharma said.
Later, when the victim raised an alarm, the accused threw her into a well near the house. After she was rescued from the well, the victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors referred her to Sawai Man Singh government hospital here for further treatment, Sharma said.
The accused, identified as Udai Meena and Anand Rajput, both aged around 25 years, have been detained and the matter is being probed, the SHO added.
Ruling Congress MLA Mateen Ahmed and his associate were today sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for rioting and obstructing government officials in their duty when they were closing down polluting industries in 2001 on Supreme Court orders.
Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Rana held the MLA from Seelampur and ex-councillor Jameer Ahmed guilty of charges of roiting, assaulting and causing hurt to deter public servants from discharge of their duty, saying they are "insouciant" members of the legislative assembly and municipal corporation.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on each of the two 55-year-old convicts whose sentences were suspended for a month to enable them to file an appeal against the judgement. They were granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 each with one surety till then.
AFP: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its nationals today after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced in a statement. Musaed al-Ruweili was arrested as he tried to smuggle "a large number of narcotic pills into the kingdom," said the statement, cited by the official SPA news agency.
He was beheaded by the sword in the northern Al-Jawf province. The execution brings to seven the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia so far this year.
The Jaipur police said they have issued a notice to Nandy asking him to appear before it in connection with his controversial remarks against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
"We served summons to the organiser but he was busy with the event so he could not turn up yesterday but has been called for further investigation," a police officer said.
"Vishwaroopam has been released in 40 theatres across the state, including 17 in Bangalore from the matinee show today. All 17 theatres screening the film are already going housefull," sole distributor of the film in Karnataka, H D Gangaraju told PTI.
He said the state police had assured it would provide security for peaceful screening of the film.
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A 37-year-old woman, who is a mother of two, was allegedly raped at gunpoint in a moving car on February 5, 2012. The woman claimed that she was offered a lift by four men, whom she befriended at a nightclub the same night.
"Twenty people were on board -- five crew members and 15 passengers," the airline said in a statement quoted by the Interfax news agency.
The plane was flying to Almaty from the northern city of Kokshetau
Congress MPs are bearing the brunt of anger at the Centre's failure to deliver on the promise that it would take a decision on statehood for Telangana by January 28, yesterday.
On Sunday, a day before the deadline that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had set last month, senior minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the government would need more consultations on the politically and emotionally sensitive issue.
He was unhappy because the police did not file an affidavit while explaining its stand on whether a CBI investigation should be held on the death of constable Subhash Tomar, who died from the injuries he received at India Gate when protests against the gang rape on a bus turned violent.
Castigating the police, the judge said, "On the last day you did not file a status report, it seems you are not taking the court seriously."
"People are spreading false information about him," he added.
The also said that the BJP must announce their PM candidate for the 2014 general elections.
The MLAs', who are B S Yeddyurappa loyalists, met with the Speaker a while ago and submitted their resignations. They had decided to do so last week, but had to wait as he was out of town.
Meanwhile the BJP has also filed a petition seeking the disqualification of the 13 MLAs. It is now up to the speaker to take a decision on the issue.
More details are awaited.
Days before the date that Ensler, activist and author of The Vagina Monologues, designated the "day to rise", she tells The Guardian: I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime. It is something that has gone across class, social group and religion.
One in three women around the world are subject to violence at some point in their life, a statistic that prompted Ensler, who wrote the Monologues in 1996, to set up One Billion Rising.
Local protests range from the first ever flashmob in Mogadishu, Somalia, to the town square in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and encompass Maori women in New Zealand and an estimated 25m protesters in Bangladesh.
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Singh further asked Malik to look after the security of Pakistani citizens and not to worry about Shah Rukh Khan.
"We are capable of looking at the security of our own citizens. Let him (Rehman Malik) worry about his own," Singh told ANI.
The 92-year-old Bollywood legend was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra on December 25 and continues to be there.
"He is still in the hospital. He is improving...he is much better now," his son Sunil told PTI.
The RBI had last cut its repo rate on April 17, 2012, by 50 basis points.
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The accused has been recognised as an under-18 and he will be tried separately from the five other men, who are accused of gang rape and murder.
"Right now it's like we've been given an electric shock; but we can't allow an electric shock to kill us. It will be a crime to let a man who committed such a heinous crime go scot free. We will go to court and appeal. We will do whatever we have to," said the father.
Family friend Rudra Roy said that Souvik's father Santanu Pal will accompany the coffin.
Souvik, a product design student of Manchester Metropolitan University, went missing from a nightclub on New Year's Eve, triggering a much-publicised search. The body was recovered on January 22.
Police sources said all options were open for appeal in higher courts.
The Juvenile Justice Board on Monday accepted the 6th accused as a minor. It accepted as authentic a school certificate that declares his age is 17 years and six months.
The police gas described him as "an equal participant in the crime" in its report submitted to the Juvenile Board.
Two are club owners and the other two members of the band that was performing, it said.
The detainees will be held initially for five days while authorities investigate Sunday's blaze in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, according to Marcos Viana, a police official who spoke with state-run Agencia Brasil. The five-day period can be extended for five more days, the news agency said.
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The festival's producer, Sanjoy Roy, is also likely to be questioned today by the police.
Last week, in a panel discussion at the festival, Nandy said, "Most corrupt people come from Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes."
He later issued a clarification saying he was trying to make the point that corruption among Dalits was noticeable, while that of the rich was not.
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Yesterday, reports emerged that Haasan has been asked to edit his mega-budget thriller by nearly an hour to ensure it releases in theatres. However, sources say the actor is unlikely to agree.
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