Shaun Robinson flaunts Farah Khan jewellery at Emmy - India

20 sept 2011

Shaun Robinson flaunts Farah Khan jewellery at Emmy

Hollywood TV presenter Shaun Robinson sported a ring and earrings by jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali for at the 63rd Emmy awards' red carpet.

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"My Emmy jewelry was FABULOUS! thank you! Wish I didn't have to return these jewels by Farah Khan after Emmy's! They're GORG!" Robinson posted along with a picture, on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Robinson is the weekend co-host and correspondent for entertainment news show "Access Hollywood". At the Emmy awards, she was busy interviewing winners backstage, she revealed on her Facebook page.
She looked chic with her hair neatly tied in a bun, giving onlookers a good view of the stylish earrings by Ali. Her minimalistic look also highlighted a cocktail ring by the designer, who thanked Robinson for her praises.
"The pleasure was all mine. Thank you for wearing it... Aw that is so sweet. You looked beautiful as ever. Love u," tweeted Ali, who is the daughter of actor Sanjay Khan, and sister-in-law of Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.

Deep oceans mask global warming for decades - India

19 sept 2011

Deep oceans mask global warming for decades

Washington: Deep oceans may absorb enough heat to mask the effects of global warming for decades.

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A study, based on computer simulations of global climate, points to ocean layers deeper than 1,000 feet where the "missing heat" is concealed during periods such as the past decade.
"We will see global warming go through hiatus periods in the future," National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Gerald Meehl, who led the study, was quoted as saying by the journal Nature Climate Change.
"However, these periods would likely last only about a decade or so, and warming would then resume. This study illustrates one reason why global temperatures do not simply rise in a straight line," said Meehl, according to an NCAR statement.
The research by scientists at NCAR and the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia, was funded by the US National Science Foundation.
The 2000-10 was Earth's warmest decade in more than a century of weather records. However, the single-year mark for warmest global temperature, which was set in 1998, remained unmatched until 2010.
Yet emissions continued to rise during the 2000s, and satellite measurements showed that the discrepancy between incoming sunshine and outgoing radiation from Earth actually increased.
This implied that heat was building up somewhere on Earth, according to a 2010 study published in Science by NCAR researchers Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo.

Facing facts: Police not ready to fight terror - India

18 sept 2011

Facing facts: Police not ready to fight terror

Delhi, Mumbai blasts have shown yet again that, riven by corruption, Indian Police is unprepared to tackle modern terror and other threats. How long will it take before they get their act together?

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An infographic on the state of Indian police

One week after a blast ripped through the Delhi High Court premises killing 17 people, sleuths from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the National Security Guard are yet to decide on the type of explosive used. Forensic laboratories in Delhi, Chandigarh and Hyderabad gave three different reports on the bomb component. The Union home ministry has now sent the reports to a fourth laboratory at Gandhinagar to 'reconcile' the findings.
Barely had the smoke cleared when the Delhi Police released sketches of suspects that were so laughably obscure that if taken seriously, could have led to the detention of large numbers of the city's adult male population. If that wasn't enough, a frenetic blame game began between the home minister and the Lt Governor, both of whom control the city police. P. Chidambaram insisted Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna had been warned of an impending attack. Khanna denied having received any warning. The NIA swung in and arrested four persons from Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir for sending a threatening email soon after the blast from a cybercafe. It turned out that they were schoolboys from a nearby higher secondary school. This was the scene in the capital, which got a shot in the arm with a Rs 1,350-crore police modernisation grant in 2009 ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
The situation is no different in Mumbai. In the July 13 blast that killed 26 persons, forensic teams were unable to even reconstruct the bomb because at least two agencies walked away with fragments. Both unsolved blasts have left the police groping in the dark and citizens wounded.
India's police force is in disarray. Years of accumulated neglect have resulted in a force barely able to respond to a 10.9 per cent increase in crime each decade. It is incapable of an effective response to threats like terrorism. Six bomb attacks in 18 months still remain unsolved. The 20 lakh-strong force is short of nearly 5 lakh policemen. It will take another decade to make up this shortfall. India already has among the world's worst police to public ratios. Just 128 policemen per 100,000 population (the UN mandates a minimum of 222 policemen). Yet as internal security expert Ajai Sahni points out, a manpower surge may not be enough. "Police need to transform their profile through better training, equipment, orientation and deployment."

Meet the Pakistan jails spies - India

17 sept 2011

Meet the Pakistan jails spies

Here's an account of the unsung group of people which works behind enemy lines to protect the nation's interests.

New Delhi: For years they have served the country, silently and without question. They are the denizens of a shadowy world where success takes years to achieve and failure often means death. Meet the spies, the unsung group of people which works behind enemy lines to protect the nation's interests.

Many of them are languishing in Pakistan prisons and now a group of former prisoners has moved the Delhi High Court seeking adequate compensation from the government.

Buta Ram(48) is one of the applicants. Before he was caught at the Pakistan border, Ram, who claims to be a former RAW agent, had a wife and two children at home. Having spent 14 years in a Pakistan jail, Ram now wants to be compensated for all that he has lost.

"In the prison, we all felt terribly disowned," Ram said.

Police hunt for source of millions seized in Andhra - India

16 sept 2011

Police hunt for source of millions seized in Andhra

Bangalore: Karnataka police were Friday quizzing a number of people in Bellary to find out whether the millions of rupees seized by police in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh belong to arrested mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy.

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"We are questioning several people but have not got any definite clues to the source of the money," a Bellary police spokesperson told IANS on the phone. He said no one has been detained in Bellary, the iron-ore rich district and Reddy's political base.
Bellary is about 300 kms from Bangalore. A truck said to have started from there was intercepted late Thursday near Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh and around Rs.5 crore was seized from it.
The only occupants of the truck were its driver and cleaner, both of whom have been arrested by Andhra Pradesh police.

Man who extorted money from filmmaker Rakesh Roshan gets bail - India

15 sept 2011

Man who extorted money from filmmaker Rakesh Roshan gets bail

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Mumbai:  A Sessions court on Thursday released on bail a man who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of extorting money from filmmaker Rakesh Roshan.

Rajesh Ranjan was released on bond of Rs. one lakh and surety of the same amount. The court warned him not to tamper with evidence. The court enlarged him on the ground that the probe was over and his police custody was not required further.

CBI prosecutor Bharat Badami opposed his bail, saying he might tamper with evidence if released. However, Ranjan's lawyer argued that his client will cooperate with the probe.

Along with Ranjan, his accomplice Ashwini Kumar was also arrested and he is still in CBI custody. He too has applied for bail and arguments on his plea are still on.

Kumar allegedly impersonated as an officer of the Central probe agency and extorted money from Roshan. He (Kumar) was introduced as a CBI officer to Roshan by Ranjan.

Ranjan had approached Roshan saying CBI has registered a case against him and could issue an arrest warrant. Ranjan also told the filmmaker that Kumar was a senior officer.

Kumar had claimed that Ranjan and Bina Shah, who own Spectrum Entertainment, have filed a case against Roshan in connection with his 2010 Hindi film 'Kites'.

Though the suit was earlier dismissed, Roshan thought a fresh case has been filed. Kumar demanded money from the filmmaker and threatened that if his demand was not met, his entire family, including actor-son Hrithik and the latter's wife Suzanne, would be arrested, CBI told the court.

According to CBI, on June 13, Rakesh paid a "huge amount" of money to Ranjan. Suspecting something fishy, Roshan approached CBI on August 20. CBI then nabbed Ranjan after which Kumar's phone was put under surveillance and he was traced to Panipat from where he was arrested.

Chinese troops enter Indian territory; dismantle old bunkers - India

14 sept 2011

Chinese troops enter Indian territory; dismantle old bunkers

Leh: Chinese troops are reported to have entered into Indian territory and destroyed some old Army bunkers and tents in Chumar division of Nyoma sector, about 300 kilometres from here.

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While some reports suggested that the Chinese troops in helicopters entered one-and-a-half kilometres into Indian airspace, other reports said that the helicopters landed in Chinese territory and then the troops marched into the area to dismantle the bunkers, a move aimed at displaying that the area belonged to them.
The Army denied that any such incident had taken place. But sources in the know said that two Chinese helicopters had entered into air space and landed one-and-half kilometres into the Indian territory at Chumar in Chingthang area of Tehsil Nyoma.
The Chinese troops attempted to dismantle an old army bunker, which was not used by the troops for long, the sources said. Another version quoted to eyewitnesses, who are often the grazers, said that Chinese helicopters landed near the Line of Actual Control and then marched in to destroy old bunkers of the army and tents of ITBP.