Delhi gang-rape: Candle-light vigils as India remembers braveheart

New Delhi: India on Sunday marks 12 months since the death of a student savagely gang-raped on a Delhi bus -- an episode that sparked nationwide protests -- with candle-light vigils and prayers.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 29 last year, nearly two weeks after being brutally attacked by a gang of six men on a moving bus as she returned home from the cinema with a male companion.

The attack and her subsequent death shook the country, shone a global spotlight on India's treatment of women and unleashed seething public anger about sexual violence and harassment of women.

The victim's family will hold a religious ceremony in their ancestral village in northern Uttar Pradesh state, away from the constant media attention they have faced since the attack, her brother said.

"We want to remember her in a quiet way, away from all the glare. We want it to be a private, family moment," the brother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told a news agency.

The family will follow traditional Hindu rituals on Sunday, with a prayer ceremony and symbolic offerings made to their ancestors, which are believed to bring peace to those who have died.
The student, who was repeatedly assaulted with an iron rod during her ordeal, has been praised for her determination to report her attackers to the police before she died of her injuries. 

Four of her attackers were convicted and given the death penalty in September after the case was fast-tracked, while a juvenile was sentenced to a detention centre. 

The sixth convict died in prison in March in an apparent suicide.

The angry and sometimes violent protests against the attack jolted India's Parliament, which this year passed tougher laws against rapists and other sex-crime offenders. 

Women's groups say some improvements have also been made in the last 12 months to India's notoriously slow, inefficient and sometimes corrupt police and judicial systems, which has encouraged some victims to report sexual crimes against them.

In the capital on Sunday, scores of students, professionals and others were slated to gather at Jantar Mantar, a protest site in the city's centre, where a makeshift memorial has been set up for the victim.

Small lamps, candles and flowers will be placed around the memorial before a peaceful vigil in the evening, one of several expected to take place across the city.

One of the organisers said women who turn up at Jantar Mantar will be encouraged to share their own experiences of violence and discuss societal changes that have taken place since the student's death.

"We need to remind the society that sex crimes won't be tolerated anymore," student Ishaan Ahmed told a news agency.

AFP

First Published: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 05:14

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புதுடெல்லி, டிச. 27-

ஹாக்கி உலக லீக் இறுதிச்சுற்று போட்டிகள் டெல்லியில் உள்ள மேஜர் தயான் சந்த் தேசிய விளையாட்டு மைதானத்தில் வரும் ஜனவரி 10-ம் தேதி முதல் 18-ம் தேதி வரை நடைபெற உள்ளன. இதில் பங்கேற்கும் இந்திய அணியின் பயிற்சி முகாம் நாளை தொடங்குகிறது.

இந்தப் போட்டியில் இந்தியா ஏ பிரிவில் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளது. இப்பிரிவில் ஒலிம்பிக் சாம்பியன் ஜெர்மனி, இங்கிலாந்து மற்றும் நியூசிலாந்து ஆகிய அணிகள் உள்ளன. பி பிரிவில் ஆஸ்திரேலியா, நெதர்லாந்து, பெல்ஜியம் மற்றும் அர்ஜென்டினா ஆகிய அணிகள் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளன.

இந்திய அணி 10-ம் தேதி தனது முதல் லீக் ஆட்டத்தில் இங்கிலாந்துடன் மோதுகிறது. பின்னர் 11-ம் தேதி நியூசிலாந்துடனும், 13-ம் தேதி ஜெர்மனியுடனும் விளையாடுகிறது.

இந்த தொடரில் இந்திய அணி, உலகின் முன்னணி அணிகளை எதிர்த்து விளையாடுவது, அடுத்த ஆண்டு மே மாதம் நெதர்லாந்தில் நடைபெற உள்ள உலக கோப்பை போட்டிக்கான சிறந்த பயிற்சியாக அமையும். 
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With the Indian government withdrawing the facility of duty-free imports of food items and liquor in retaliation to the "ill-treatment" meted out to diplomat Devyani Khobragade, the families of American diplomats will have to make "alternative arrangements" for the Christmas-New Year week.

American employees at the US embassy in Delhi and consulates in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad used to get imported food and liquor at much cheaper rates - sometimes half the market price - since they could import these items without paying taxes and duties.

The US embassy in Delhi has a full-fledged "commissary" where these items are sold to American diplomats. The consulates in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad also have a similar system for making these duty-free items available to their staff. Sources said the commissary stocks luncheon meat, cheese, cold cuts, salamis, breads, pasta, antipasti, gnochhi, chocolates and even water.

"We used to get our fill of cold cuts, cheese and wine through the commissary, but now we will have to make other arrangements," an American diplomat's wife is learnt to have told her Indian friends.

However, an American diplomat said, "India is not Afghanistan or Iraq. In India, we get everything in the shopping malls and prominent markets, like Khan Market and Defence Colony in Delhi. The only thing is that they may be a bit more expensive... but we will not let this spoil our Christmas and New Year parties."

Several European diplomats have volunteered to help out, said an American diplomat. "Even a Russian colleague told me not to worry about the duty-free provisions. I think that's very sweet on their part," said another American diplomat. When contacted, Lee McManis, acting spokes-person at the US embassy, said, "We are reviewing all requests we have received from the Government of India. The US embassy in New Delhi has provided interim responses to India's diplomatic notes." He refused to elaborate further.

Why more time to AAP asks BJP ஆட்சியமைக்க மக்களிடம் ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சி கருத்து கேட்பது நாடகம்: பா.ஜனதா தாக்கு Why more time to AAP asks BJP

புதுடெல்லி, டிச. 20-

டெல்லியில் ஆட்சியமைக்க ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சிக்கு காங்கிரஸ் ஆதரவு அளிக்க முன்வந்துள்ளது. முதலில் இதனை ஏற்க  மறுத்த ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சி, பின்னர் இதுதொடர்பாக ஆலோசனை நடத்த கூடுதல் அவகாசம் கேட்டது.  அத்துடன், கூட்டணி ஆட்சி குறித்து பொதுமக்களிடம் கருத்து கேட்டு வருகிறது. இதன் முடிவை ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமைக்குப் பிறகு அறிவிக்க உள்ள நிலையில், ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சிக்கு மத்திய அரசு கூடுதல் அவகாசம் அளிக்கப்படும் என்று உள்துறை மந்திரி ஷிண்டே தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

காங்கிரஸ் மற்றும் ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சிகளின் இந்த கூட்டணி முயற்சியை பா.ஜனதா கட்சியின் டெல்லி மாநில தலைவர் விஜய் கோயல் கடுமையாக விமர்சனம் செய்துள்ளார்.

இதுதொடர்பாக அவர் இன்று நிருபர்களிடம் கூறுகையில், "ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சி ஆட்சியமைக்க மத்திய அரசு கூடுதல் அவகாசம் அளிக்கும் என ஷிண்டே கூறியிருப்பது, இது புனிதமற்ற கூட்டணிக்கான பேச்சுவார்த்தையாக இருக்குமோ என்ற சந்தேகம் எழுகிறது.

இரண்டு கட்சிகளுக்கும் இடையில் என்ன நடக்கிறது என்பது தெரியவில்லை. ஆனால், ஆட்சியமைக்க கூடுதல் அவகாசம் எடுப்பதால் பல்வேறு கேள்விகள் எழுகின்றன. மேலும் கூட்டணி ஒப்பந்தத்தை இறுதி செய்ய முடியவில்லை என்றே தெரிகிறது. காங்கிரசுடன் இணைந்து ஆட்சியமைப்பது தொடர்பாக ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சி மக்களை அணுகுவது நாடகம்" என்றார்.

... Why more time to AAP asks BJP

Katrina Kaif has had no release in 2013. But she is gearing up for her big film Dhoom 3, which hits the screens in the art week of the year. The film that is expected to break all records. The Dhoom franchise is all about guys and bikes but still incomplete without the femme fatales and Kat is all set to wow in an ultra glam avatar. I am meeting her after a long time and in the first few moments I begin to wonder if this is the new Katrina. Softer, mellower, and with her guard down.

Yes, she is still not ready to talk about her relationship with Ranbir Kapoor but she isn't as cagey as she used to be. In between chiding me for asking personal questions, she talks about working with the three Khans in an interview that was rescheduled three times because she is so busy. Over to Kat...

Have you seen the previous Dhooms? Yes, I have seen both of them. I don't remember the first one as it was too long ago but I remember the second one very well. There is no franchise like D3 in India. It's very innovative for its time. It is the traditional cops and robbers story but the format is innovative. It was a clever idea.

What prompted you to take up this role? It was the script. They came up with a really good story and were not just relying on the Dhoom franchise. For me honestly, from a personal perspective, it was the performance and the dance sequences. For me to get the chance to experience circus performance and acrobats was fabulous! Dance in the last few years has been a big passion for me. It's an aspect of our industry which sometimes is a little under-recognised. The chance to do the kind of acts I got to do in D3 — with the straps, hoops, acrobats — is something that would not come to me again and that was where my head was at that time.

It must have required a lot of training... Everything in the film required a lot of training. It's much harder than it looks. Even in the song like Malang which is just eight-nine minutes, it looks easy...You may appreciate the sequences but doing the act on a hoop is not easy. Nor is training yourself with straps etc and it takes lot of time. I am also one of those people, especially when it comes to dance, performance and physical execution of things, who won't stop until I feel I have got it right to a certain level. I will probably do more than what I am asked of or required to do because I feel that it deserves that.

You didn't sign film because of Aamir Khan who you hadn't worked with? These things are secondary. Especially now that I have been here for a few years and have the experience. It's really about the films you leave behind... If you get a chance to work with three superstars then it's an added bonus. They are superstars, they are passionate about their work, and extremely talented so working them is great.

Who is the toughest Khan to work with? No one has been tough or bad — the three Khans are all great people but the equations I have shared with all three are different. With Salman, whom I have known for nine years, my equation is different. Shooting with him sometimes does become awkward because you know the person so well. Like during the Mashallah song in Ek Tha Tiger, he kept laughing when I was singing the romantic lines. When Kabir would come and say, 'Salman we have to shoot the song', he would just brush him off and laugh. What is so funny? Nobody else in the country finds it so funny! (laughs) But with Shah Rukh and Aamir... there are two actors, two people who don't know each other so well so it's more about the work.

All the Dhoom girls from Esha to Aishwarya are known for the glamour factor. Have you upped it for this film to keep pace? I don't know. I don't think there are people who go to work and say, 'Today let me just chill out and let not try hard and do much.' I have done my best too. Upping the glamour quotient has been done within the script parameters and what was defined for me. I went into the film with the intention of doing what written and given to me – the songs and performance and doing the best of what I can and pushing myself as much as I can. In my capacity I have given everything that is possible for me to give.

All Dhoom girls have worn bikinis. Have you? No, I have not worn any bikini. If I had worn one, don't you think it would be in the promos by now? I don't think in any part of the world what I have worn in the poster will be considered as a bikini considering my bikini experiences this year! (laughs)

So have you sworn off them completely in real life? No. I have not sworn off wearing anything. I am not that childish. If you are asking if I will stop wearing bikinis in my personal life, while on holidays then no, I won't. The pictures came as a shock. It didn't happen in year one of my career but in year 10. In that moment when one is hurt or upset one will react on impulse and that [writing an open letter to the media to not invade her private space] was my impulsive reaction. Some people told me I should have reacted and some said I shouldn't have reacted at all. Both opinions were right.

Don't you think paparazzi invasion comes with the territory? At that moment I felt it was unnecessary. It was very unlike what happens here in India. It's been happening in the USA for many years. Have I seen it happen here before? No. Now will one see it happen more often? Perhaps. It will become a norm but at the time it happened it wasn't the norm, not in our film industry.

Your colleagues say you come across as cold. Comment? (Smiles wryly) With all due respect to anybody who made the statement that I am cold, it's probably the most ignorant statement that one could ever make! People like me (Cancerians) always put up a front or wall around us... In fact, even now I am hating answering this question because I hate explaining my personality to people who can't understand me.

Please continue... If they don't see the truth, they don't have to know the truth. That's what I believe. You build a wall to protect yourself. I think I am the most sensitive person that you will probably ever meet. I feel hurt not in a normal way, like most people do. My hurt is multiplied by a 100. The highs and lows I feel are extreme — when I feel low it is painful. And those lows are only brought by things in your personal life. So do I hurt? Yes! Am I a closed and guarded person? Yes! But I have been that even as a child. I'm a very emotional personal but I know that there's a place and time for it and I keep that side of me where it needs to be and don't carry it with me to work on a film set. Also often there are times you are in a very vulnerable space and you are finding it hard to keep up appearances with your emotions scattered all over the place, but you keep up a professional front or face.

What really bothers you? So many things can hurt you... We feel the impact of so many things... Life is going alongside work. There's the thought of the future, of what are you doing today, about the the people in your life who are supporting you and are alongside you... You have things in your life that are meaningful and worthwhile, there's the responsibility of your family, there are two million things going on inside your head and they are very least of the stress is about work really.

Going by your calm façade one would never imagine that… What do you benefit from putting your emotions and vulnerabilities on display to people who may not have your best interest at heart or who may not be able to help you or use it in the right way? So I don't choose to do it.

There have been rumours of an impending wedding. Fact or fiction? Complete fiction. There's no thought or plan in my mind about marriage right now. Why are people talking of my wedding and putting us out there when the thought or conversation is not even there? Maybe this started after Kareena came on KWK but I wasn't on that show and that's unfortunate for me and if I am not mistaken Ranbir also didn't say anything about marriage. The comments were made in jest. That's all.

Many thought she was getting you 'married off' to snuff out competition. That's a very layered and complex way of seeing it (laughs) and I wouldn't even go down that road! Why make life full of complexities? I see the comments she made as a joke to her cousin. But on the flip side of it is there is no truth to it because firstly I am not getting married and secondly no one has asked me to marry him.

No one has proposed! Nobody! And this realisation hit me last week when I was on the way home after a press conference. Everywhere I have been asked, I have been saying I won't get married for the next five-ten years, but the fact is: Nobody has asked me even yet! (her eyes twinkle)

You seem to be the only one not talking about Ranbir. Why? Is Ranbir talking about me? Is the other person involved talking about me? No. Am I talking about it? No. Which means the two people who are the topic of this conversation are not talking about it. My stance won't change. I don't feel the need or want to talk about my personal life.

Reportedly Ranbir proposed to you on his birthday… Where do these nice stories about my marriage proposal come from? That's not where my life is at the moment. Marriage is not happening anytime soon but I promise you that the day someone proposes to me and I say yes, and we are engaged, I will never hide it. I will never prolong the time between the proposal and engagement to marriage. There is no reason to hide or be discreet about something like that.

But in love one has to be discreet? Being in love and being in a relationship are two different things. A relationship which is not fully committed to, or which has not yet reached a culmination is something I believe you should be discreet about. And I have always tried to be discreet about what's in my life.

Why is that? Because that's my nature. It is my nature. I guard what's close to me and I guard my feelings. And you are talking about my feelings? A relationship is also about half of your feelings and half of somebody else's. Why do I need to talk about somebody else? I have developed this guardedness about my personal life from the beginning and also it was an advice that was instilled in me early, when I started out perhaps, and then later it became a part of me…

By Salman? He is known to do that. By who it's not important. It just came about and now it has become a part of me and something I don't think I should change.

You never spoke about Salman also when you broke up... No. I never spoke about Salman ever. Why should I? As an actor, there are many complications and speculations... Why add to it and put it out there for opinions? And it is out there. I am not dumb to not see that. But to that extent it is okay. It doesn't need to be dissected upon anymore until the time one is 100 per cent sure where this relationship is going to culminate.

Are you in love? Yes or no? (Grins naughtily) I won't answer that as it will add fodder to more speculation. It's a something that people in my life and the person in my life or the people I am hanging out to know. And hopefully they do, or it's a sad state (laughs). Do they know if I love them? Yes. Do I feel the need to say if I am in love in print? No. I don't want to say I am in love.

Ranbir once said that apart from his family and Ayaan, you would be one person he would give up his life for. I really hope that's true. I think that friendship, support and being there for each other in life is extremely, extremely important and if I was ever in need, I really hope that he (Ranbir) would be there for me and that will be a great thing because being selfless in life is important.

Do you believe in selfless love? I believe selfless love is an idealistic concept. I feel people should find a balance between the good and bad times and what you need and what you can give. Relationships and everything in love and life is give and take. You can't always expect if you are not giving anything but the foundation or the base is very important. You should have a firm base on which your love is based. Your support and priorities should be very clear, correct and precise.

Who or what are your priorities right now? My work, my family and what is my personal life consisting of my friends and the people who are there in my life.

Who? Ranbir? I am not going to name… (laughs). Everyone knows we are friends and the people who are in my life.

Is he a friend or someone special? Why do you have to give everything a tag? I know a lot of people who give sweeping statements about people they are supposed to be feeling emotional about but they are not even true but exaggerated! So why do you want me to make untrue what is true in my case? Is Ranbir an important part of my life? Yes, of course! Ranbir is an extremely part of my life but beyond that I can't say anything more.

But you would like to get married and have babies at some point? Yes I think so. When I see my sister's children I feel like having children… eventually… Not thought about how many.

source :DNA

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மும்பை, டிச. 15–

கிரிக்கெட்டின் சகாப்தமான தெண்டுல்கருக்கு காங்கிரஸ் தலைமையிலான மத்திய அரசு டெல்லி மேல்சபை எம்.பி. பதவி வழங்கியது. அதோடு ஓய்வு பெறும் தினத்தில் பாரத ரத்னா விருது வழங்குவதாகவும் அறிவித்தது.

இந்த நிலையில் இந்திய அணியின் முன்னாள் கேப்டன் சவுரவ் கங்கலியை பாரதீய ஜனதாவில் இழுக்க அக்கட்சி முயற்சி செய்தது.

மேற்கு வங்காளத்தை சேர்ந்த 41 வயதான அவருக்கு ஏராளமான கிரிக்கெட் ரசிகர்கள் ஆதரவு இருப்பதால் அதை தங்களுக்கு சாதகமாக பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ள அக்கட்சி முடிவு செய்தது.

பாராளுமன்ற தேர்தலில் பாரதீய ஜனதா சார்பில் போட்டியிட 'சீட்' தருவதாக கங்குலியிடம் நரேந்திர மோடி தரப்பில் கோரிக்கை வைக்கப்பட்டதாக தகவல் வெளியானது.

மேலும் விளையாட்டு மந்திரி பதவி தருவதாகவும், உத்தரவாதம் அளிக்கப்பட்டதாக கூறப்பட்டது. பாரதீய ஜனதா பொதுச்செயலாளரும் மேற்கு வங்காள மேலிட பார்வையாளருமான வருண்காந்தி, கங்குலியை சந்தித்து இந்த கோரிக்கையை வைத்தார்.

இந்த நிலையில் நரேந்திர மோடியின் கோரிக்கையை கங்குலி நிராகரித்துவிட்டார். மும்பையில் நடந்த நிகழ்ச்சி ஒன்றில் பங்கேற்ற அவர் இது குறித்து கூறியதாவது:–

பாரதீய ஜனதா சார்பில் போட்டியிட 'சீட்' தருவதாக என்னிடம் உறுதி அளிக்கப்பட்டது உண்மைதான். ஆனால், இதை ஏற்க நான் மறுக்கிறேன். தேர்தலில் போட்டியிடமாட்டேன். எனது இடம் கிரிக்கெட் மைதானம்தான். பாராளுமன்றம் அல்ல.

இவ்வாறு கங்குலி கூறியுள்ளார்.

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Lovely Mehrotra for ENI
New Delhi: Priyanka Chopra's much-awaited Gunday look is finally out and the actress looks ravishing in shimmering golden attire, bob cut hair and a feather-like accessory that decks her hair up completely making her look stunning and impeccably stylish.

Director Ali Abbas Zafar tweeted the first pictures saying: "Here is the 1st look of Nandita from Gunday @priyankachopra."

It was followed by another tweet which read: "And one more @priyankachopra pic.twitter.com/KvrHIQHjxu."

The sizzling two pictures, first to be put up by ENI, makes Priyanka Chopra look ravishing.

Pee Cee was missing from the first teaser of the film which came out during the last week of November and the Exotic lady then defended the same saying: "Obviously it's a promotional strategy. The film is Gunday and the boys play Gunday which is why the introduction for them was important."

After seeing Priyanka's look, it wouldn't be wrong to say that the lady has again become the show-stopper! We will all find out when the movie hits the theatres on February 14, 2014.

Img anna hazare fast not to participate workers Aam Aadmi party ban

ஹசாரேயின் உண்ணாவிரதத்தில் பங்கேற்க கூடாது: தொண்டர்களுக்கு 'ஆம் ஆத்மி' கட்சி தடை anna hazare fast not to participate workers Aam Aadmi party ban

புனே, டிச.12-

பாராளுமன்றத்தின் நடப்பு குளிர்கால கூட்டத்தொடரில், வலுவான லோக்பால் சட்டம் இயற்றக்கோரி பிரபல சமூக ஆர்வலர் அன்னா ஹசாரே, தனது சொந்த ஊரான மராட்டிய மாநிலம், ராலேகான்சித்தியில் காலவரையற்ற உண்ணாவிரதம் மேற்கொண்டுள்ளார்.

இந்த உண்ணாவிரத போராட்டத்தில் எதிர்பார்த்த அளவுக்கு கூட்டம் இல்லை என தகவல்கள் கூறுகின்றன. அன்னா ஹசாரேயின் உண்ணாவிரத போராட்டத்தில் தனது கட்சித்தொண்டர்கள் பங்கேற்க வேண்டாம் என 'ஆம் ஆத்மி' கட்சி தலைமை உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளதாக தகவல்கள் வெளியாகி உள்ளன.

இதுபற்றி அந்தக்கட்சியின் மூத்த உறுப்பினர்கள் சிலர் கூறுகையில், "ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சியின் தேர்தல் பிரசாரத்தின்போது தனது பெயரை பயன்படுத்தக்கூடாது என்று அரவிந்த் கெஜ்ரிவாலுக்கு அன்னா ஹசாரே கடிதம் எழுதினார். அதை கவனத்தில் கொண்டுதான் இப்போது அன்னா ஹசாரேயின் உண்ணாவிரதத்தில் ஆம் ஆத்மி கட்சியினர் பங்கேற்க விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது" என்றனர்.
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Img 4 மாநில தேர்தல் தோல்வி: காங்கிரஸ் பொறுப்பாளர்களை நீக்க சோனியா ஆலோசனை 4 state election defeat Sonia consultation to remove the Congress curators

புதுடெல்லி, டிச. 10–

5 மாநில சட்டசபை தேர்தலில் டெல்லி, ராஜஸ்தான், மத்தியபிரதேசம், சத்தீஸ்கர் மாநிலங்களில் காங்கிரஸ் கட்சி தோல்வியை தழுவியது. டெல்லியில் தோல்வியை எதிர்பார்த்த காங்கிரஸ் தலைவர்களுக்கு, கட்சி படுதோல்வி அடைந்ததை ஜீரணிக்க முடியவில்லை.

4 மாநிலங்களில் காங்கிரசுக்கு ஏற்பட்டுள்ள வீழ்ச்சியால் சோனியா கவலையும் விரக்தியும் அடைந்தார். நேற்று அவர் அவசரம், அவசரமாக காங்கிரஸ் மூத்த தலைவர்களை அழைத்து ஆலோசனை நடத்தினார்.

சுமார் 2 மணி நேரம் நடந்த இந்த ஆலோசனை கூட்டத்தில் பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங் தவிர மூத்த தலைவர்கள் ஏ.கே.அந்தோணி, சுசீல் குமார், ஷிண்டே உள்பட பலரும் கலந்து கொண்டனர். அவர்கள் அனைவரும் பணவீக்கத்தால் ஏற்பட்ட விலைவாசி உயர்வே காங்கிரஸ் தோல்விக்கு காரணம் என்ற கூறினார்கள். அதை சோனியா ஏற்றுக் கொண்டார்.

கூட்டத்தில் காங்கிரஸ் தோல்வி அடைந்த 4 மாநில காங்கிரஸ் மேலிட பொறுப்பாளர்கள், நிர்வாகிகள் தோல்விக்கான காரணத்தை அறிக்கையாக தயாரித்து சோனியாவிடம் கொடுத்தனர். அதை பெற்றுக் கொண்ட சோனியா 4 மாநில காங்கிரஸ் பொறுப்பாளர்களிடம் ராஜினாமா கடிதம் எழுதி வாங்கி இருப்பதாக தகவல் வெளியாகியுள்ளது.

4 மாநில காங்கிரஸ் பொறுப்பாளர்களை நீக்க சோனியா முடிவு செய்துள்ளதாக கூறப்படுகிறது. மேலும் 2014 பாராளுமன்ற தேர்தலை சந்திக்கும் வகையில், புதிய நிர்வாகிகளை சோனியா தேர்வு செய்தார் என்று தெரிகிறது.

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As Delhi returned a hung verdict in the assembly elections, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said the lieutenant governor (LG) will explore all options of forming a new government before taking a call.

"The LG will first explore all options of government formation. As of now, the home ministry has no role in it," said Shinde.

He was responding to a question on the possibility of imposition of President's rule in Delhi after the results of the assembly elections where no party got absolute majority.

Sources said the LG is expected to call the single largest party BJP, which along with its partner Akali Dal's one seat has 32 MLAs, to know whether it is ready to form a new government.

If the BJP declines to form the government due to the lack of majority in the 70-member house, the LG then may ask the second largest party - the Aam Admi Party which bagged 28 seats - whether it is in a position to form the government.

Sources said even though both BJP and AAP had declared that it would not stake claim of forming the government, the LG will individually talk to leaders of the two parties Harsh Vardhan and Arvind Kejriwal respectively.

After that the LG will send a report to the home ministry for future course of action.

If the LG suggests for President's rule, the home ministry will move to the Union Cabinet. If the Cabinet is convinced with the LG's suggestions, it will recommend for President's rule by keeping the assembly under suspended animation. PTI

Adult star and now Bollywood actress Sunny Leone is all set to star in a documentary with her husband Daniel Webber. According to reports of a leading daily, a Canadian Production House will make a documentary that will follow the life of the couple for the next 18 months.

The team is all geared up to capture raw footages of Leone and Webber for almost 18 months, according to the deal, and bring out the couple's uncut life on celluloid. Sunny's personal life, professional life and stint with Bollywood will all be encapsulated in the docu-show. The documentary's first installment will deal with Sunny's professional life whereas the second one will describe Sunny and Daniel's intimate life and their love affair. The documentary will witness a worldwide release once completed.

New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan, who is considered Bollywood's undisputed king of romance, had some valuable tips on romance to share on his recent visit to the capital.

Shah Rukh has featured in a string of romantic films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kal Ho Naa Ho in his over two-decade career in Hindi filmdom.

Here's what he had to say:

- Never disrespect a woman in words, action or spirit.

- You should always take care of small things like opening the door for a lady and never sit before she sits.

- Learn to be gentle with a woman.

- I never abuse in front of a woman and try not to be aggressive with a woman or even in front of her.

- A real man is one who can touch his feminity. I find my masculinity in the fact that I can touch my feminine side. IANS

Saudi militants were behind the massive car bombing and assault on Yemen's military headquarters that killed more than 50 people, including an Indian nurse and other foreigners, investigators said in a preliminary report.

Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for U.S. drone strikes that have killed dozens of the terror network's leaders.

The attack - the deadliest in Sana'a since May 2012 - marked an escalation in the terror network's battle to undermine the U.S.-allied government and destabilise the impoverished Arab nation despite the drone strikes and a series of US-backed military offensive against it.

Military investigators described a two-stage operation, saying heavily armed militants wearing army uniforms first blew up a car packed with 500 kg of explosives near an entrance gate, then split into groups that swept through a military hospital and a laboratory, shooting at soldiers, doctors, nurses, doctors and patients.

Officials earlier said 11 militants were killed, including the suicide bomber who drove the car. It was not clear if the 12th attacker was captured or escaped.

The investigative committee led by Yemen's Chief of Staff Gen. Ahmed al-Ashwal, on Friday said militants shot the guards outside the gates of the military hospital, allowing the suicide bomber to drive the car inside, but a gunfight forced him to detonate his explosives before reaching his target. It said the 12 militants killed, included Saudis.

The report also raised the death toll to 56 and said more than 200 people were wounded. The foreigners killed included two aid workers from Germany, two doctors from Vietnam, two nurses from the Philippines and a nurse from India, according to Yemen's Supreme Security Commission.

Two military officials said that wounded soldiers had told them the assailants who stormed the hospital separated out the foreigners and shot everybody in the head.

Other military officials said American security agents were helping with the investigations, but that could not be confirmed. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to brief reporters.

Yemeni commandos and other security forces besieged the militants before they could reach the ministry's main building, preventing them from going further than the ministry's entrance gate.

Yemeni security forces launched a manhunt in the capital to find the perpetrators, sparking gunbattles that killed five suspected militants and a Yemeni commando, officials said.

The committee, which sent its report to Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, did not explain how it came to its conclusions. The report was read on state TV.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the group is known, is the product of a merger by the group's Yemeni and Saudi branches after a crackdown in the powerful neighbouring kingdom. Among its leaders is another Saudi, Ibrahim al-Asiri.

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