India News http://indiadays.com News , Views and much more... Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:21:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Sania Mirza loses Pilot Pen tournament but reached in women’s double http://indiadays.com/20070825/18/sania-mirza-loses-pilot-pen-tournament-but-reached-in-women%e2%80%99s-double/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/18/sania-mirza-loses-pilot-pen-tournament-but-reached-in-women%e2%80%99s-double/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:18:15 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/18/sania-mirza-loses-pilot-pen-tournament-but-reached-in-women%e2%80%99s-double/ Sania MirzaAfter the impressive performances in US open now Sania Mirza added one more diamond in his crown. She has become the first Indian Woman to be seeded in the season’s last Grand Slam. The 20 year old Sania has been seeded 26th at the championship. This gets her the way at the flushing Meadows in New York from August 27. Last week she reached on top of her career i.e. WTA ranking of 28.

On the other hand she loses Pilot Pen tournament in the second round to the 23rd ranked player Alona Bondarenko at New Haven. 28th ranked Mirza did show some resistance in the second set without losing a single game, but the 24 year old Ukrainian tamed the Indian 6-3, 0-6, 6-3 to move into the third round.

Sania showed hard work during the match that lasted about one and half hours and She did not drop a single game in the second set, eventually crashed out with a 3-6, 6-0, 3-6 defeat.

Meanwhile, though her singles hopes are over, Sania and her Italian partner Mara Santagelo reached the quarterfinals in women’s doubles after they downed the American pair of Corina Morariu and Meghann Shaughnessy 6-4, 7-5.

After achieving her aim to be in the top 30, Sania would now be keep up her good form and improve further as a player. “As long as I keep improving and play good tennis, I feel that in the long run, the rankings will take care of themselves,” she had said after regaining her career high ranking after a gap of two years.

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Heyy Babyy, Good opening of movie http://indiadays.com/20070825/16/heyy-babyy-good-opening-of-movie/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/16/heyy-babyy-good-opening-of-movie/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:14:38 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/16/heyy-babyy-good-opening-of-movie/ Heyy Babby is movie little bit inspired by a Hollywood hit of 1987 Three Men and a Baby. This movie moves around three bachelors who were living the ultimate happy life with many blonde women. House is as usual bachelor rooms stocked with old pizzas and beers. But all happiness comes to end(but actual fun starts) when they get the delivery of an eight year old baby at their door step with a note “Dog, take care of your daughter.”

Then they all try to become responsible men. They start to love baby and even apologies for all they have done with many girls. But all of the sudden everthing change when mother of baby comes up and take her baby back.

The first 40 minutes of movies is full of laughing rolercoster and then everthing ends up with emotional drama as usual in all hindi movies. But when the movie tends to become very bore Sajid gave a break of comedy again.

Manoj Desai, proprietor of Gaiety Galaxy says “The opening is bumper. It is 100% till Tuesday. Considering that the capacity of Gaiety is 1000 seats, is an indication that the film is well received by both the balcony as well as the stall audience. Sajid Khan has excelled in his directorial debut, and has got the pulse of the audience. He has balanced the comedy and emotional elements quite well. Sajid Nadiadwala has marketed the film very well, Heyy Babyy will be blockbuster”

Geerish Wankede Head PR & Corporate Communication said “The collections are very encouraging. Everyone seems to be very happy after watching the film. Well executed comedies work big time, additionally the film was well marketed and had a great buzz. The collection will be huge since Tuesday is Raksha Bandhan.”

Overall movie is just a time pass. Go with family and have fun for some time.

Movie : Comedy
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vidya Balan
Direction: Sajid Khan

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Punjab to have First University for Civil Aviation http://indiadays.com/20070825/15/punjab-to-have-first-university-for-civil-aviation/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/15/punjab-to-have-first-university-for-civil-aviation/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:51:07 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/15/punjab-to-have-first-university-for-civil-aviation/ “Punjab will be the first State in the country to have a university for Civil Aviation.” Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in his inaugural address during the day long workshop on ‘Punjab Strategy of Human Resource Development— Employment Generation and Training’ at Hotel Mountview by the Department of Employment Generation and Training, Punjab announced this. With this, Punjab would become the first state in the country to have such a university.

Badal said he will ask the services of V Mulekar, advisor of aviation services at Maharashtra Airport Development Company Limited. V Mulekar played key role in upgrading the international airport at Amritsar in 1999. Badal said that consultants and key players of the civil aviation industry will be hired to prepare the blue print of this proposed university. The ministries of civil aviation and human resource development will work upon the model and feasibilities of this university.

Badal also mentioned that there is tremendous potential in private security too. He said Punjab State Security Training Institute was being set up at Jehan Khelan in Hoshiarpur district to trained youth to be get the employment in the private security agencies as well in other security services like the CRPF and CISF. The initial intake capacity has been kept 500 which could be later on increased to 1,000

Mr. Badal announced that the State Government would make provision for creation of one lakh employment opportunities every year for the youth of the State.

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Banglore Police hold Drug Mafia with 1 crore Drug http://indiadays.com/20070825/14/banglore-police-hold-drug-mafia-with-1-crore-drug/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/14/banglore-police-hold-drug-mafia-with-1-crore-drug/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:49:09 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/14/banglore-police-hold-drug-mafia-with-1-crore-drug/ Anjani Kumar, 28 year, state level volleyball player from Madhya Pradesh was arrested by Banglore police in Karnataka along with 5 kg of brown sugar in his possession. He was arrested with one more person Eisanullah. DCP of Central Division, Bangalore. B N S Reddy said “”However, it is not clear if Bangalore was the transit point or final destination. The team is now trying to probe into the existence of drug route that passes through Bangalore or the presence of any drug cartel operating in and around the city.” The probe would examine if the drugs were brought from abroad and also the origin of payment made for the purchase.

On a tip the team of policemen raided an auto stand in the upmarket of Church Street in the city in which a rich consignment of heroin was seized. Banglore City Police Commissioner N. Achuta Rao briefed to reporters. Rao said the heroin recovered in the raid appeared to have a high level of purity and was estimated to be worth Rs60 million in the international market. He said the seized narcotics would be sent to the laboratory for tests.

This is the second narcotic seizure in the last 15 days with the police seizing drugs worth two crore rupees from the Udyan Express train on August 10. Narcotics agencies say India, wedged between two major drug-producing regions, the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand) and the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan), is a major transit point for drug smuggling to the West. According to the United Nations, Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium.

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Salman Khan arrested in Jodhpur, sent to Jail http://indiadays.com/20070825/12/salman-khan-arrested-in-jodhpur-sent-to-jail/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/12/salman-khan-arrested-in-jodhpur-sent-to-jail/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:47:03 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/12/salman-khan-arrested-in-jodhpur-sent-to-jail/ Salman Khan arrested in Jodhpur, sent to Jail

Jodhpur, Aug. 25: Bollywood star and Icon Salman Khan who was issued an arrest warrant by the lower court at Jodhpur was arrested today by Superintendent of Police Sawai Singh Godhara at the Airport. Khan had said before his departure in Mumbai that he was a law-abiding citizen and wanted to surrender. Khan was accompanied by his brother Sohail and lawyer Dipesh Mehta. He has been give five-year prison term given by a lower court.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate rejected his appeal and directed him to be lodged in the jail. Salman Khan’s lawyers now plan to file an appeal against the sessions court judgement in the Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court today itself, though it may be heard only on Monday. A huge crowd, mostly his fans, had collected before the court apparently to have a glimpse of the 41-year-old actor. Some of them had placards supporting him.

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Shibu Soren is not found guilty of Murder of his secretary Jha http://indiadays.com/20070825/13/shibu-soren-is-not-found-guilty-of-murder-of-his-secretary-jha/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/13/shibu-soren-is-not-found-guilty-of-murder-of-his-secretary-jha/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:46:49 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/13/shibu-soren-is-not-found-guilty-of-murder-of-his-secretary-jha/ Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren acquitted by the Delhi High court in the case relating to murder of his private secretary, Jha. The CBI had accused Soren of getting killed his personal secretary Shashinath Jha. The Delhi High Court has cleared former Union Minister and JMM leader Shibu Soren of charges of murdering his personal assistant Shashinath Jha 13 years ago. A bench comprising of Justices R S Sodhi and H R Malhotra said that the court’s judgment on November 28, 2006 was an error. “there is nothing on record to show that Jha fell into disgrace over any particular act of his which caused annoyance to Shibu,” the judges said.

“Neither is there any evidence to show as to when and where the conspiracy was hatched, if at all. The missing links are galore,” the order added. The order reads, “neither the family supports any of the wearing apparels found upon the skeleton as those belonging to Jha nor ds the postmortem supports the prosecution’s theory of Jha having been killed with two iron rod blows on his head,”. Jha was abducted and found dead in the forest of Piskamore, Ranchi.

The factors that led the case in Soren’s favour is that CBI miserably failed to prove that the dead body which found almost four year after the disappearance, as the body of Jha. Jha’s family not only disputed the CBI claims over the identification of the body but also they refused to conduct any DNA test. Further more the results of the DNA fingerprinting tests conducted at the instance of the trail court which, unambiguously, held that the skeleton was not that of Jha.

Shibu Soren could not be released from Dumka jail on Thursday because of certain technical glitches in the papers obtained from Jamtara court for his release. The division bench of the High Court today also acquitted four other people who had been held guilty of having killed Jha on November 28, 1994.

Soren is currently having one more case lodged in a Jharkhand jail in connection with a 1975 mass murder case in the state. But that is not as furious as the Jha’s case.

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Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is released on bail http://indiadays.com/20070825/11/bollywood-star-sanjay-dutt-is-released-on-bail/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/11/bollywood-star-sanjay-dutt-is-released-on-bail/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:21:26 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/11/bollywood-star-sanjay-dutt-is-released-on-bail/ Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is released on bail

MUMBAI August 24, 2007: Sanjay Dutt was released just after 7 am from the Yerawada prison in Pune to avoid crowds of fans that had gathered since Monday when the Supreme Court ordered his temporary release. Sanjay Dutt walked out of jail yesterday striped white shirt and black jeans, sporting a beard and a new crew cut, walked out from the main gate. A team of policemen, led by Yerawada police inspector Prasad Hasabnis, prevented mediapersons from talking to Dutt outside the jail. The vehicle, carrying Dutt to the Lohegaon Airport, was chased by mediapersons till the airport entrance, where the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel stopped them.

Amitabh Bachchan’s reaction was crisp but summed up the film fraternity’s sentiment. “We are very relieved and happy for him,” the superstar told HT. Ameesha Patel, Dutt’s co-star in Tathastu, echoed the view: “I’m very happy and hope he doesn’t have to suffer anymore.”

Dutt flew to Mumbai on a chartered flight and arrived home to a group of family and friends who blessed his return by breaking a coconut on his doorstep. He will have to surrender in less than a week’s time before the special TADA court in Mumbai. The court has fixed August 27 as the date for him to be given the judgment copy.

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Seal anything unauthorised: SC to MCD http://indiadays.com/20070825/10/seal-anything-unauthorised-sc-to-mcd/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/10/seal-anything-unauthorised-sc-to-mcd/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:12:24 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/10/seal-anything-unauthorised-sc-to-mcd/ Seal anything unauthorised: SC to MCD

New Delhi, August 24: THE Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that all unauthorised commercial structures in the Capital would have to be razed. The Supreme court rejected the plea submitted by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) of getting stay on demolition drive against illegal structures in 1500 unauthorised colonies filed by Union Urban Development Ministry and Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The appointed monitoring committee’s order dated August 14 this year had asked for sealing of unauthorized commercial establishments in the Capital.

The MCD in their Plea, stated that : As much as 40 lakhs people would be on the road if the sealing drive were not halted, but the court is firmed over this issue. A Bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice D.K. Jain issued this warning to Additional Solicitor-General Vikas Singh and Sanjiv Sen, counsel for the MCD. The Bench told counsel, “You will invite contempt. Anything which is unauthorised shall be sealed. Otherwise you will face the consequences.” “Until the policy decision translates into a law, anything that is unauthorised as per the present law has to be sealed. If not, then it is contempt of court as the sealing is being carried out on court orders.”

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1947 Limited Edition from Vertu Launched http://indiadays.com/20070825/8/1947-limited-edition-from-vertu-launched/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/8/1947-limited-edition-from-vertu-launched/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:59:18 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/8/1947-limited-edition-from-vertu-launched/ 1947 Limited Edition from Vertu Launched

Vertu, Luxury mobile phone maker has announced the launch of its limited edition Ascent Ferrari 1947 mobile phone at an event in Mumbai. To commemorate the 60th year Anniversary celebration of Ferrari, Vertu worked closely with Ferrari’s design team to develop this exclusive limited edition phone. In fact, just 1947 pieces of this particular model will ever be made. Each of the phones are numbered from 1 to 1947.

According to Vertu, the Limited Edition handset uses hand-polished Titanium for the chassis, while drawing inspiration from Ferrari GT cars. The bezel nose on the front of the phone features the Prancing Horse while, on the rear back plate, there’s a scaled-down Ferrari brake pedal in high-grade aluminum. The Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition is handbuilt in the UK. The phone is available from Vertu’s own outlets as well as more than 370 of the finest watch, jewellery and department stores across 48 countries. While the phone is available in stores pan-India, it carries a prohibitive price — Rs 3.89 lakhs.

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MTNL launches Internet telephony; introduces Re 1 ISD call http://indiadays.com/20070825/7/mtnl-launches-internet-telephony-introduces-re-1-isd-call/ http://indiadays.com/20070825/7/mtnl-launches-internet-telephony-introduces-re-1-isd-call/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:50:58 +0000 admin http://indiadays.com/20070825/7/mtnl-launches-internet-telephony-introduces-re-1-isd-call/ NEW DELHI: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), which operates in Delhi and Mumbai circles, on Friday launched Internet telephony by which customers using this service will be able to make ISD calls using a fixed line telephone without a PC. Broadband customers in Delhi and Mumbai will be able to make an ISD call to any part of the world for as low as Re 1 per minute through their fixed line phones. The best part of the offer is that one does not need to have computer at home for internet telephony.

By doing this, MTNL will become the first telecom company in the country to offer internet telephony or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) where subscribers can enjoy ultra cheap ISD calls without even having a computer at home. MTNL has tied up with Aksh Optifibre to offer Netfone, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. Aksh would manage all the back-end work for the VoIP service which would include billing, connectivity to international gateways and installing switches among others.

VoIP’s induction to MTNL’s list of services is the result of the relentless efforts to provide consumers the benefits of technology at the most affordable prices : A Senior Official of MTNL Said.\ Sources said, BSNL may also launch internet telephony through fixed line instruments in all major cities, though no time frame was given.

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