Medical experts doubt Pinki Pramanik can rape

KOLKATA: Medical experts on Tuesday questioned the police move to slap rape charges on Pinki Pramanik after the former Asian Games gold medallist was declared a male on the basis of a DNA test report.

Pinki's medical report, they pointed out, says that the athlete suffers from Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD). A DSD patient, say experts, cannot be termed a male - despite an XY chromosome combination, as Pinki's DNA report has confirmed-because such

MP's arrest: Violence hits bus services to Belgaum district

BELGAUM: The arrest of Swabhiman Shetkari Sanghatan (SSS) leader Raju Shetty, MP, in Maharashtra on Monday has had a rippling effect in Belgaum district.

All bus services from Maharashtra to Karnataka have been suspended, while a few state buses are plying to Maharashtra.

Five KSRTC buses were stoned in Maharashtra, while a tempo was set afire near Borgaon.

Shetty was arrested when the agitation by sugarcane farmers there for higher prices for their crop turned violent on Monday.

Since Shetty has several supporters in Belgaum district, especially in border taluks of Chikkodi, Athani and Raibag, thousands of farmers gathered at Bedkihal Circle on

Police say Pinki Pramanik is male, doctors contest claim

Sharp differences emerged between the police and members of the medical board after the former submitted a chargesheet declaring decorated athlete Pinki Pramanik as being a male and proceeding to accuse the person of raping a woman while the doctors told Hindustan Times Pramanik was not a male but a “male pseudo hermaphrodite”.

On June 14, a 32 year-old woman lodged a complaint with the Baguihati police here against Pramanik, saying ‘he’ had raped her with the promise of marriage.

Pramanik had also grabbed her properties, the woman alleged in the complaint, on the basis of which Pramanik was arrested and produced before a court the same day.

A gender determination test followed. Pramanik told Hindustan Times, “The chargesheet is incorrect. The medical report is different.”Defending the police version Shantomay Basu, additional public

UPA readies for life after Didi

NEW DELHI: The Congress-Trinamool divorce seems complete with the government ruling out any rollback of fuel hikes and FDI in retail and Mamata Banerjeeinsisting there was no room for negotiation.

Within minutes of finance minister P Chidambarammaking an emphatic "no rollback" statement on Wednesday, Banerjee said TMC ministers at the Centre would quit on Friday. The CM's charge that the government was "distorting facts" in claiming that the PM tried to reach her only increased the acrimony. Her demand that the number of cheap cooking gas

Bharat Bandh to hit major cities; SP, BJP, JD(U) workers stop trains

New Delhi: The nationwide protests on Wednesday against fuel price hike and FDI in retail are likely to bring life to a stand-still in major cities. The strike call has been given by both the NDA and the Third front parties.

Shiv Sena, though, has opted out of it. BJP leaders have fanned out to all major cities to lead the protest. Sushma Swaraj will be in Bhopal, Nitin Gadkari in Delhi, Rajnath Singh in Lucknow and Venkaiah Naidu in Hyderabad. Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party

One killed, 12 hurt in Guwahati blast

GUWAHATI: One CRPF jawan was killed and twelve others injured in a grenade blast at the crowded Paltan Bazar of the city on Saturday evening. The injured include three CRPF personnel and nine civilians.

The deceased was identified as Bhabani Singh (35), a CRPF jawan from Rajasthan. Hospital sources said another injured, a woman, is also critical. All injured are undergoing treatment at Gauhati Medical College Hospital. Police officials

Captive US soldier safe: Haqqani commander

A US soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed despite the Obama administration's decision to declare his alleged captors a terrorist group, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday. However, the United States and NATO can expect stepped up attacks, he said.

The commander, who spoke by telephone from an undisclosed location, denied that the Haqqanis held the only American prisoner of war of the

Delhi: 1 dead, 2 injured as mob clashes with police in Mayur Vihar

New Delhi: One person died and two others were injured as clashed erupted between locals and police in East Delhi. Though police have denied firing at the mob and have claimed that they only used tear gas to disperse the crowd, bullet injuries have reportedly been found on the body of the dead and those injured. 

The incident was reported at 8 pm from Mayur Vihar Phase-III. Heavy police force has been deployed in the area.

Fifteen police personnel were also injured in the incident and about six to seven locals are

Questions on coal removed from Parliament website, alleges BJP

Jaipur: Alleging that all questions related to coal department have been removed from Parliament website, BJP today accused Congress of trying to hide the truth about the “coal scam” said said it will lodge a complaint with Rajya Sabha Chairman.

“Congress party is now trying to hide the truth about coal scam and have removed all questions related to coal department from Parliament website, this shows their

5 SMS per day limit comes into effect

NEW DELHI: To check spread of rumours which has led to exodus of northeastern peoplefrom certain states, government banned from today bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days across the country.

"We have banned bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told PTI.

The decision was taken after reports of widespread circulation of SMSes and MMSes containing misleading information about Assam violence, threats to

New system can predict solar flares, give advance warning

Scientists have developed a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentially dangerous radiation.

Researchers from the US have developed a system which works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements "decay" or lose energy.

The new detection technique is based on a hypothesis that radioactive decay rates are influenced by solar activity, possibly streams of subatomic parti

Rs1 crore reward for Olympic silver medalist Sushil Kumar

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday announced a reward of Rs1 crore for wrestler Sushil Kumar, who created history by winning silver medal in London Olympics.

"I on behalf of every Delhiite congratulate Sushil Kumar for creating history by winning the silver medal. The whole country is proud of him for through his dedication and hardwork. He has brought laurels for the country," she said.

He is the first Indian wrestler to strike silver in wrestling competitions at Olympics.

"Every Indian is proud of his most ambitious feat. His dedication, hard work and apt training yielded good result. Sushil has brought laurels for

UN staffer shot dead in Sudan's South Kordofan

KHARTOUM — A Sudanese driver for the World Food Programme has been shot dead in war-torn South Kordofan state, the UN agency said on Sunday, in the second attack against it in two days.

The killing came as officials announced an agreement on aid access to South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where the UN has described a worsening humanitarian crisis but has been severely restricted in its movement.

"Our driver was killed yesterday in an armed attack in an area some 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Kadugli," WFP spokeswoman Amor Almagro told AFP.

Jamal Al Fadil Farag Allah, married with five children, is the first WFP employee to be killed in Sudan, she said.

"He was driving fellow staff member Saad Yousif when their vehicle was attacked by two unknown assailants," Almagro said.

They were travelling in a marked UN vehicle on official business, she added.

Yousif was wounded but survived and was to be airlifted to Khartoum later on Sunday.

More than 200,000 refugees have fled a worsening humanitarian situation in South Kordofan and nearby Blue Nile states since fighting between government and rebel forces from the

Assam riots: Clashes continue for 7th day; toll rises to 44

Clashes between Bodos and minority immigrants in four Assam districts continued for the seventh day today, leaving 44 people dead even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi insisted the situation was "improving" and rapped the media for portraying the state as "burning".

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would visit Assam on Saturday to take stock of the situation and the

PA Sangma harps on history to support victory claim

BHUBANESWAR: Presidential nominee PA Sangma on Sunday claimed that he would win the race to Raisina Hill by drawing parallels with the polls in 1969. "This fight is going to be like the one in 1969 when V V Giri defeated the official Congress candidate, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy," he told MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJD.

The former Lok Sabha speaker was in Bhubaneswar to canvass for the July 19 polls. He also addressed a separate meeting of BJP legislators.

He said the 2012 polls had another similarity with the contest between Giri and Reddy. "In the past, people did not know about what was going on in the

Germany 1-2 Italy: Balotelli double sets up Spain final

The enigmatic striker has come through on the big stage, with two well-taken first half goals leading the Azzurri into the Euro final for the first time since 2000

A brilliant performance from Mario Balotelli has driven Italy into the Euro 2012 final, after a 2-1 win over Germany at the National Stadium in Warsaw on Thursday. 

The Manchester City forward has hit the headlines for all the right reasons, opening the scoring with a powerful header before smashing home an emphatic second to

Pakistan Appoints a Prime Minister

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ousted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his cabinet for failure to comply with an earlier court ruling demanding a corruption probe into President Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the PPP.

Another court on Thursday then blocked the PPP's first selection to succeed Mr. Gilani by issuing an arrest warrant against the new candidate for drug-related charges. The court also issued a

Yeddyurappa gets advance bail in illegal mining case

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted conditional anticipatory bail to former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and three of his family members in an illegal mining case holding that the allegations in the Central Bureau of Investigation FIR are “not something new”.

Besides Mr. Yeddyurappa, his sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijendra, and son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar secured relief after a CBI court rejected their bail plea on June 13, 2012.

In his order, Justice Subash B. Adi said the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) report on illegal mining on the basis of which the

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Gas crisis boosts sales of infrared, charcoal stoves in Mizoram

AIZAWL: Acute scarcity of cooking gas has hit Mizoram extremely hard as people are struggling to cook a day's meal. Alternative cooking devices have started selling like hot cakes with the perpetual scarcity of cooking gas.

Theft of LPG cylinders have become more common than theft of mobile handsets and laptops and with the value of cooking gas increasing, theft cases have also increased, police said.

A number of restaurants had to close down due to cooking gas shortage while some private hospitals, including the Greenwood Hospital, were forced to

Mizoram Presbyterian church snaps US ties over gay stand

AIZAWL: The Presbyterian Church of Mizoram, the largest church denomination in the Christian-dominated state, has decided to snap ties with the Presbyterian Church of theUnited States of America due to a conflict on the issue of homosexuality. A meeting of the Synod Executive Committee (SEC), the second-highest decision-making body of the Presbyterian Church, made the decision on Friday after the Presbyterian Church of USA allowed ordination of gays as priests.

D P Biakkhuma, a church elder and secretary of the SEC, told TOI on Monday that the two Presbyterian churches have maintained cordial relations for more than a decade, but the Mizoram chapter was compelled to sever ties due to differences on

Muslim girl can marry at 15 if she attains puberty: Delhi Court

New Delhi: Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her matrimonial house.

"This Court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl can marry without the consent of her parents once she attains the age of puberty and she has the right to

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Meeting-ah hian Chief Minister Pu Lal Thanhawla chuan State dang Chief Minister te rualin Mizoramin sum lama harsatna a neih te leh mamawh a neihte a sawichhuak a. Mizoramin sum harsatna a tawh mekte hi Finance Commission thar apiangin harsatna dik tak kan thlen thin te a haider luih zel thin vang a ni a ti a. Hei hian Non Plan Sector ah harsatna

Mother of three self-immolates in Tibet

A young Tibetan woman died after setting herself afire in western China in the latest incident of pro-democracy protesters self-immolating, a rights group has said. The latest incident coincided with reports claiming that many Tibetans were detained in Lhasa following the case where two Tibetans self-immolated in front of a famous temple in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) earlier this week.

More than 30 monks and civilians have self-immolated in the last one year.

London-based Free Tibet identified the latest protester as 30-year-old Rechok, mother of three children. The incident took place front of the

German teen Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton

A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.

Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.

The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.

Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to "curiosity and

‘India capable of making missiles with 8,000 km range’

Bangalore: India is capable of developing missiles that can hit targets located at more than 8,000 km away, a top official on Wednesday said. 

"We will develop it as and when we see a need to develop a missile longer in range than Agni-V. We have the capability to do it," Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister V K Saraswat told reporters here. 

Since DRDO had already crossed the 'threshold' of making a system with longer capability and developing its sub- systems, making a longer version of Agni-V would be

Drogba confirms exit from Chelsea by June end

London: Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba confirmed on Tuesday he will leave newly-crowned European champions Chelsea when his contract expires at the end of June.

Drogba has been at the Premier League club since 2004, joining from French side Marseille, and has scored 157 goals in 341 appearances helping the Blues win ten trophies.

The 34-year-old leaves the London club on a high after scoring a late equaliser against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final on

I was angry, not drunk... they started it: Shah Rukh

Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan on Thursday refuted allegations that he was drunk during the alleged scuffle between him and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials after the IPL match between the Kolkata and Mumbai teams at the Wankhede Stadium the previous night. Instead, Khan blamed the MCA officials, saying they were “aggressive and rude”.

Police today registered a non-cognizable offence against the actor and three others for the incident during which Khan allegedly pushed and

Viruses used to power tiny device

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Scientists in the US have developed a way to generate electricity using viruses.

The researchers built a generator with a postage stamp-sized electrode and based on a small film of specially engineered viruses.

When a finger tapped the electrode, the viruses converted the mechanical energy into electricity.

The research by a team in California has been published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Materials that can convert mechanical energy into electricity are known as "piezoelectric".

"More research is needed, but our work is a promising first step toward the development of personal power generators, actuators for

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Ni 3 chhung awh tur, India Hmarchhaka a hmasa ber, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) leh Mizoram sorkar Education Department, Development of North Eastern Region(DONER) leh National Skills Development Corporation(NSDC) te tangkawpin an buatsaih, Oil India Limited in a a bultum, North East Career & Skills Expo 2012 chu vawiin khan Aijal Club-ah Chief Minister Pu Lal

Bomb hits convoy carrying UN observers in Syria

A roadside bomb hit a Syrian military truck Wednesday just seconds after the head of the UN observer team drove by in a convoy, demonstrating the fragility of the international plan to end the country’s bloodshed.

In Washington, meanwhile, President Barack Obama took steps to extend sanctions against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, saying Syria poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security and diplomatic goals.

The attack, which the regime said wounded 10 Syrian soldiers, emphasized the limits of the international community’s plan to

Atletico win the Europa League

Radamel Falcao justified his golden boot billing by firing Atletico Madrid to a 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao to earn Europa League glory.

The Colombia striker produced two moments of magic in the first half before Diego's late goal put the seal on Atletico's second title in three years.

Diego Simeone's side were vastly superior in their eagerly awaited all-Spanish final against Athletic Bilbao as Marcelo Bielsa's men froze on the big occasion.

Falcao's 11th and 12th goals of the tournament not only earned him the top scorer prize ahead of Schalke's Klaas Jan Huntelaar but took his

Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda survives helicopter crash at Ranchi airport

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and five others including his wife Meera miraculously survived when their helicopter crashed at Ranchi's Birsa Munda Airport on Wednesday. The helicopter, Agusta AW 109 with twin engines, crash landed at the Birsa Munda Airport at 12:30 pm while trying to make an emergency landing following a technical snag.

Senior Jharkhand Police officials and the doctors of Apollo Hospital where the injured have been admitted said that all the

Dazzling Venus to be at its brightest this week

This week, step outside any night about an hour after sunset and you will get to see the brilliant planet Venus at the western sky. And if you look a little more closely and you’ll see that the planet is surrounded by bright stars. Although Venus is always one of the brightest objects in the sky, this week it is at its brightest, Discovery News reported.

That’s because of a combination of circumstances.

The solar system’s two innermost planets, Mercury and Venus, go through a series of phases similar to the moon, as they are lit from the side at different

Assam boat tragedy: Search on for hundreds still missing

Dhubri, Assam:  Search operations are on for more than 100 people who are still missing after a over packed steamer carrying at least 250 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught in a severe storm. Nearly 24 hours after the tragedy just 17 bodies have been found with authorities saying that most of the bodies may have got swept away making it even more difficult to estimate how many may have actually been on board. 
 
Yesterday, Deputy Commissioner Kumud Chandra Kalita had said that at least 25 people swam ashore after the boat

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North Korea missiles put on parade are fakes, experts say

Several experts believe missiles that North Korea paraded this month in Pyongyang are fakes because a closer study of photographs of the weapons reveals odd inconsistencies in their design.

The missiles were shown as part of birthday celebrations for the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, just days after a failed rocket launch that embarrassed the reclusive regime. The country has continually touted its military heft in an escalating war of words with South Korea since then.

"Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists, and the era of enemies using atomic bombs to threaten and blackmail us is

Bangalore: Student dies after fight over TV remote

Bangalore: There is a controversy over the death of a student from Manipur at Bangalore's Acharya Institute of Architecture on April 17. Richard Loitam died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep hours after he got into a brawl with a fellow student over the remote control while watching an IPL match.

He had reportedly been punched in the head by a fellow hostelmate after a brawl over the TV remote just hours before he died. Despite massive bleeding his roommates claim they heard nothing. The authorities were not alerted until the next day.

Richard Loitam's friend Syed Raza said, "He had a fight and

Piaggio's iconic Vespa returns to India

MUMBAI — Italy's iconic Vespa scooter, a rage with the Indian middle-class in its heyday, re-entered the country on Thursday after a 13-year hiatus as scooters come back in vogue.

Auto-making giant Piaggio has brought to India the LX125, a high-tech, gearless scooter, to take on competition from rivals such as Honda, TVS, Suzuki and Yamaha in the fast-growing market.

"Piaggio begins a new chapter in India with the Vespa LX125. There is no better time to be in the Indian two-wheeler scooter

Jupiter's moons may hold clues for life beyond Earth

Washington: Researchers are keen on exploring Jupiter’s icy moons, which may resemble some of the planets found orbiting stars beyond our solar system, to assess their suitability for life. 

Europa, Callisto and Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, are all believed to have liquid oceans beneath their icy shells, as well as organic chemistry and possible sources of energy beyond the dim amount of sunlight that reaches their distant surfaces. 

These are all conditions that may be required for life in much more distant planetary bodies. 

“We thought for quite some time these were dead icy bodies, but we have recently actually discovered a fabulous collection of very geologically

Pakistani plane with 127 on board crashes, no survivors

Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) A passenger plane carrying 127 people crashed in stormy weather and burst into flames while approachingPakistan's Islamabad airport Friday evening. There were no reports of survivors.

The commercial airliner, Bhoja Air 737, on its maiden flight, was descending for landing when it crashed a few miles from Islamabad airport, near Chaklala

Suu Kyi clashes with govt over oath of office

Aung San Suu Kyi's planned debut in Burma's parliament next week could be shelved amid a standoff between her party and the government over one word used in the swearing-in oath for new lawmakers. Newly-elected MPs from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party see the oath in its as a potential hurdle in plans to make an impact in a legislature dominated by the military, and refuse to sit in the chambers until it is changed.

Top NLD official Nyan Win travelled to the administrative capital, Naypyidaw, on Thursday to try to convince election

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India successfully test fires Agni-V, takes a giant stride

India on Thursday conducted the maiden test of its indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-V ballistic missile with a strike range of over 5,000 km, from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

The three stage, solid propellant missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 8:05am, defence sources said.

Soon after the maiden launch took place, Agni-V witnessed a smooth and perfect vertical lift-off from the launcher and analysis was done to assess its health parameters after retrieval of date

Agni-V, India's first ICBM, to be test-fired shortly

New Delhi:  Agni-V, India's first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), is expected to be test-fired from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast in a short while from now. The test launch was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed due to bad weather.

Designed and developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists, Agni-V has a range of 5,000 kilometres. The three-stage missile, once validated and

Govt-Army tension affecting internal security: Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: Slamming the centre for recent controversies with Army, Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi on Monday said tensions between the civil and military wings are bound to adversly impact the internal security of the country.

Speaking at the chief ministers' conference on internal security, Modi said, "It is unfortunate that the present Union government has failed to instill faith and confidence about our defence preparedness in the common man".

Modi said the internal security of the country cannot be viewed in isolation as it is intertwined with the external security scenario and the armed forces play an

Beef festival turns Osmania into battlefied

Hyderabad: A student of the Osmania University here was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing "food fascism" in hostels, police said Monday. The beef festival saw clashes, which saw five students being injured, and even led to vehicles being burnt. 

The situation in the university was tense as violence continued in the campus past midnight with a group of students attacking the 'C' hostel and stabbing a student for supporting the

'222 dead' in Qaida battle for Yemen's Loder

ADEN: At least 222 people, including 183 militants, have been killed in five days of clashes around the strategic southern town of Loder that al-Qaida is trying to seize, Yemeni security sources said on Saturday.

In the southern port city of Aden, also southern Yemen, an attack on a checkpoint by al-Qaida-linked fighters and a subsequent gunbattle left eight of the assailants and four policemen killed, police said.

Thirty-seven people were killed in Loder on Friday, the sources said, among them a child of 12 killed by a shell burst inside the town. The rest were

North Korea rocket launch raises questions about Kim Jong Un’s leadership

April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Kim Jong Un suffered a public humiliation as North Korea’s third-generation leader unlike any his father or grandfather faced after the totalitarian state admitted a long-range rocket failed shortly after liftoff.

The launch was meant to mark the April 15 centennial of grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung and further cement the younger Kim’s assumption of the family mantle, which the government has been burnishing since