Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Sunday insisted that the UK-based firm at the center of a corruption row that has hit CWG OC was recommended by the Indian High Commission despite an embarrassing denial issued by it.
The Indian High Commission had denied recommending A M Films, the little-known UK-based firm which allegedly received lakhs of pounds for providing its services during the Queen's Baton Relay in London.
Kalmadi refuted the claim and asserted that the recommendation came from the High Commission only from a protocol official Raju Sebastian, who has been dubbed in media reports as too junior an official to make any recommendation on behalf of the High Commission.
The Organising Committee would like to clarify that we had written to Mr Vikrant Ratan, the first secretary (Protocol) of the Indian High Commission, to provide us the list of agencies for transportation, accommodation and other services and their approved rates.

Which contestant deserves to be the next Indian Idol?


Bhoomi Trivedi

Rakesh Maini

Shivam Pathak

Sreeramchandra

Swaroop Khan

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Pakistani troops on Thursday night pounded nearly half a dozen Indian posts with mortar shells and rockets in Krishna Ghati sector in J&K's Poonch district.
The heavy shelling was apparently aimed at pushing in a fresh batch of militants from across the LoC and also to divert attention of troops engaged in combing operations to flush out militants hiding in nearby Beri Rakh forests in Mendhar for the past one week. The Indian posts targeted by the Pakistani troops fall in the infiltration route of militants, sources said.
Brigadier General Staff (BGS) Satish Dua said the Pakistani troops resorted to heavy caliber weapon fire. We too retaliated, he added.
Firing started around 9 pm and continued till midnight . There was no loss of life or damage to property.

In Indian stock market up in Sensex 18,287.50 in today and the market is 143.51+ in up


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The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan are meeting in Islamabad to try to revive bilateral dialogue between the two nuclear-armed nations.

Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi opened talks Thursday, their first meeting since the Mumbai terrorist attacks derailed peace negotiations nearly two years ago.

Krishna arrived in Islamabad Wednesday, telling reporters he has come with a message of peace for Pakistan.

The Indian foreign minister said his visit marks a new beginning in the efforts to improve bilateral relations. He said India is committed to resolving issues with Pakistan through peaceful dialogue.

But India has insisted that no improvement in the relationship can come until Pakistan cracks down on the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. U.S. and Indian authorities accuse Lashkar-e-Taiba of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.

Ten gunmen targeted several locations throughout the city in a three-day siege that killed 166...

DHAKA: Bangladesh will allocate Taka 17 billion ($245 million) in its annual budget next month for constructing the infrastructure necessary to import 500 MW of electricity from India, an official said.

Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has consented to the allocation.

A senior official of the power ministry said that the allocation would be used for building a transmission line from Berhampur in India's Orissa state to Bheramara in Bangladesh and to set up a substation.

The official, however, said that the project may need more than the sum allocated, New Age newspaper said Monday.

Energy-starved Bangladesh signed an energy deal with India in January when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited New Delhi.

Opposition leader Khaleda Zia has criticised the government for creating an artificial power crisis that would require power import without going through tenders and other trade procedures.

Economists and businessmen at a seminar organised Sunday called for transparency in power deals and...

Source..............- DVD9
Ripper..............- -=DDR=-
Release Date........- Who Cares
Runtime.............- 1:33:50
Resolution..........- 640 x 352
Framerate...........- 23.976 FPS
Disks...............- 1CD
Size................- 699 MB

Video Codec.........- XviD
Video Bitrate.......- 906 Kb/s
Audio Info..........- 128Kbps DD 5.1
Audio Language......- Hindi | English
Subtitles...........- English Srt.

Container...........- AVI

The Indian Runner (1991) DVDRIP XVID DMZ

English | 02:01:00 | 800x608 | XVID 800Kbps | 25fps | MP3 128Kbps | 811MB

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102116/

plot:

The story, set in 1960s Nebraska, involves two very different brothers: Joe (David Morse) a small town deputy sheriff, and Frank (Viggo Mortensen), a criminal.

Before the events of the film, Joe had tried to farm for a living, but was unable to make ends meet, and the bank eventually foreclosed on his property. He became a deputy sheriff as a way to support his young wife (Valeria Golino) and child. Joe is a good, conscientious man, but has his own demons to fight with. The opening shot of the film shows a car chase which ends with Joe using his gun to...

An Indian student from Bangalore, who did MBA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania early this month, has died in a car accident in the southern American State of Texas where he had gone to meet his friends.
Naresh Naidu was admitted in a hospital in Corpus Christie on Tuesday morning after he and his friends met with an accident that morning.
Naresh, 24, could not sustain injuries and died the next day on May 12.
Naresh and his friend Naveen came to Texas State from Pennsylvania to visit their friend Praduymna, said the Telugus Association of North America (TANA).
Praduymna, who was driving the car, lost control of it and hit an electric pole. Pradyumna and Naveen who were in the front seats got saved with minor injuries.
Naresh who was in back seat suffered with severe head injuries and was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital.
A team of doctors tried their best to save the life of Naresh but weren't successful, TANA said.

Mumbai: The crime branch of the Mumbai police has arrested a serving lieutenant colonel of the Indian Army for uploading child pornography content on websites.

The police are investigating whether the officer, Jagmohan Balbir Singh, 42, was also involved in producing these videos.

The arrest followed a tip-off from police in Germany to Interpol a few months ago. The alert said dirty videos involving children were being uploaded on pornographic websites from a computer in Mumbai.

The information was passed on to the cyber crimes investigation cell of the crime branch through diplomatic channels, according to the Mumbai police.

“We were able to trace the IP (internet protocol) address of the computer involved, said joint commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy. The address belonged to the computer of a senior army officer. We decided to work more on the information since there were chances that someone else could be using his computer.”
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Our beloved National Anthem ”Jana Gana Mana” written and composed by Sri Rabindra Nath Tagore has been chosen as the World’s Best National Anthem by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). It is a proud moment for all Indians across the world.

Jana Gana Mana written in Sanskritised Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

It was first sung at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress,on 27 December 1911. Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on January 24, 1950. The music for the “current version” is said to be derived from a composition for the song by Ram Singh Thakur, although some dispute this.

A formal rendition of the national anthem takes about forty-eight to fifty-two seconds....

WASHINGTON: A Chinese doctor allegedly murdered his former Indian American supervisor after stalking the victim who he blamed for getting him fired, according to prosecutors.

The suspect, Lishan Wang, 44, was arraigned on Tuesday on charges that he shot Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor, 34, five times in Branford, Connecticut Monday morning in the parking lot of Dr. Toor's condominium complex. Wang had been fired two years ago from a Brooklyn hospital after a confrontation with Toor, the assistant US attorney Devant Joiner said at the arraignment at New Haven Superior Court.

Police said he also had 1,000 rounds of ammunition, enough for a massacre, New York Daily News said. Unemployed Wang did not enter a plea or even look up at his arraignment and is being held on $2 million bail. The next date of hearing has been set as May 11.

Joiner said cops found two loaded handguns, printed directions to Dr. Vajinder Toor's home and a photo of the doc, a former colleague with whom Wang had clashed at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Centre...

New Delhi: To repeat its low-cost model of operations in Africa, India's mobile phone firm Bharti Airtel has invited bids for IT-related services, management and maintenance of mobile and landline networks in 15 nations.

Basically, the company has decided to invite bids, as it was not getting better deals from the existing partners. Since 2004, IBM has been handling Bharti's IT requirements in a first-of-its-kind deal globally.



Talking to Economic Times, an Executive close to this deal, said, TCS, Infosys and Wipro along with IBM are in the race as the company is looking for the best deal. While another executive said Bharti may be looking to diversify its partner base as it would not want to risk putting all its eggs in a single basket.

Some of the sources close to the deal also said that, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens, which maintain and manage Bharti Airtel's networks in India through multi-billion-dollar contracts, are not guaranteed similar deals with Zain.
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Nadiya Ke Par (1948) VCD - Indian Cinema - The Early Years - Classic

cast


Subtitles = NONE (So Sorry...but enjoy some good songs in MP3s)
Directed by Kishore Sahu
Music by C.Ramchandra
Lyrics by Moti

Songs are included in MP3s (Courtesy Surjit-Agnish - Low bitrate)
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_01_ More Raja Ho_Lalita Deolakar Rafi
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_02_ Ankhiyan Milake_Surinder Kaur
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_03_ O Gori O Chhori_Lata Chitalkar
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_04_ Najariya Mein Aayi Ho_Lalita Deolakar_Chitalkar
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_05_ Dil Leke Bhaga_Lalita Deolakar chorus
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_06_ Katwa Ke Naiya_Lalita Deolakar_Chitalkar_Puri_P.Chander
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_07_ Dil kahu ko--Maar Gayo Re_Shamshad_Chitalkar
1948_Nadiya Ke Paar_08_Nanhi si jaan--Do Chaar Din Pyar_Shamshad_Rafi
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Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
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