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By Rajul Nigam
 
Amethi, Sep 3 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi who is on a three-day visit to his Amethi constituency, expressed his anger with the local police for not investigating a murder case properly.
 
Rahul Gandhi got angry when Shahin Bano informed him that police officers of the Rudouli police station were not handling her sister’’s murder case properly.
 
Bano told Gandhi that her sister, Yasmin Bano, whose body was found in the Rudouli area, was kidnapped and murdered by eight persons to grab her land.
 
Bano recounted how Rahul Gandhi to Read the rest of this entry »

 
London, Sep 3 (ANI): England skipper Steven Gerrard has said that FA should back coach Fabio Capello, as team set off for the Euro 2012.
 
Gerrard, who leads the Three Lions in Friday’’s opening qualifier against Bulgaria at Wembley, fiercely disagreed with the fellow striker Jamie Carragher’’s view that an English manager should take charge from Capello. He insisted that no Englishman had a
track record to challenge the Italian’’s.
 
Gerrard said it would be been silly to ditch Capello, as it was the players who had under-performed.
 
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New Delhi, Se3p 3 (ANI): Sonia Gandhi has been re-elected Congress party chief unopposed for a record fourth time on Friday.
 
Gandhi has created a record for the longest tenure as Congress chief by leading the party since April 1998 when she replaced the late Sitaram Kesri.
 
Her name was announced at a ceremony at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Friday.
 
She had to contest election for party chief post only once when senior leader Jitendra Prasada decide to contest against her a decade back, but was defeated by her.
 
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London, Sep.3 (ANI): A senior US general has claimed that the Taliban is facing a “financial crisis”.
 
Major General Richard Mills, who leads coalition troops in Afghanistan’’s southern Helmand province, a key poppy-growing region for the Taliban, said that with supply routes being blocked, the Taliban is facing a financial crisis.
 
“We believe that the local insurgency here within the province has less than one half of what they had last year in operating funds,” The Telegraph quoted Major General Mills, as saying citing “sensitive intelligence” reports.
 
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New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): Maharashtra’’s Chief Minister Ashok Chavan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the development of a new airport in Navi Mumbai, on Friday.
 
Chavan said that the Prime Minister has assured that nothing would come in the way of Mumbai’’s development.
 
“The Prime Minister, after we called on him today, has categorically said that, ”I will personally look into the matter, Mumbai’’s development is of paramount importance to the country.” I appreciate that the airport at Navi Mumbai is a necessity. I had helped that earlier also by amending the CR Read the rest of this entry »

 
New Delhi/Bihar, Sep 3 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Friday dispatched another helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to assist the cops in locating the three policemen, who are still in the Maoists” custody.
 
The Bihar Government had sought 4,000 additional paramilitary forces from the Central Government to deal with the rising Maoist violence.
 
It has been reported that a comprehensive plan is being worked out to launch a joint operation along the Bihar-Jharkhand border to get hold of the Naxals.
 
Earlier today, the body of police co Read the rest of this entry »

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): To strengthen bilateral military ties with Sri Lanka, Army Chief General VK Singh will embark on a three day visit to the island nation on Sunday.
 
During this trip, General Singh will have discussions with Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, and Prime Minister DM Jayaratne. 
 
The Army Chief will also hold talks with all three-service chiefs of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in Colombo. 
 
The Army Chief will also visit training institutions, service headquarters and various operational units to give boost to defence cooperation between I Read the rest of this entry »

 
London, Sep.3 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has indicated that he is willing to take up another post, saying that he is a public service guy.
 
Insisting that he had to quit Parliament to avoid being seen as a backseat driver to successor Gordon Brown, he writes: “I decided I had little option but to leave the UK political scene, at least for now.”
 
In an interview for BBC Radio 5 Live, Blair said he would have taken the role of President of the European Commission if it had been offered.
 
The Mirror quoted him as saying: “I”m basically a publi Read the rest of this entry »

 
London, Sep.3 (ANI): Pakistan’’s High Commissioner to Britain has attacked the International Cricket Council (ICC) for suspending three Pakistan cricket team players, who are at the center of spot-fixing allegations.
 
High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan said that the suspension of cricketers Mohammad Amir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif exposed the ICC’’s “playing to the public gallery”, and said the council had “no business” taking action while a police investigation was on.
 
Speaking on Radio 4′’s Today programme, Hasan said: “They (the ICC) have done the wrong thin Read the rest of this entry »

 
Karachi, Sep 3 (ANI): Pakistan has called batsman Asad Shafiq and fast bowler Mohammad Irfan to replace the suspended Test skipper Salman Butt, fast bowlers Mohammad Amir, and Mohammad Asif.
 
Pakistan had dropped Butt, Asif and Aamir from the Twenty20 and one-day series against England under pressure from the ICC and the England Cricket Board.
 
The Pakistan cricket team is in the midst of a betting scam, where fast bowlers Aamir and Asif are alleged to have bowled pre-arranged no-balls in the Lord’’s Test against England.
 
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