Malaysian man threatens to kill wife for being slow in cooking noodles

Kuala Lumpur, May 10 (ANI): A Malaysian man became so furious, when her wife was slow in preparing a bowl of instant noodles for him, that he cut her dress into pieces with an axe and also threatened to kill her.

The 33-year-old housewife reported to the police that her husband allegedly splashed hot water on her and then beat her up until she was unconscious.

Also, the man allegedly cut off the woman’s clothes with an axe until she was naked.

However, she managed to flee their Kampung Kota Ayangan home in interior Keningau, once her husband fell asleep.

Keningau OCPD Deputy Supt Zahari Mohamed said the woman claimed that her husband asked her to prepare instant noodles after he returned home drunk.

“But he became furious when it took her some time to prepare it. The husband rushed into the kitchen and splashed the hot water from the pan on her,” the Star Online quoted Mohamed, as saying.

He added: “The woman then ran out of the house and hid in some bushes. However, her husband soon found her and dragged her by her hair before he punched and stomped on her.”

The 38-year-old man has been arrested. (ANI)

Madonna’s ‘garden protection plan’ annoys neighbours

London, April 24 (ANI): Pop star Madonna irritated neighbours of her New York home after she called in contractors to plant 500 bushes around her home to safeguard her privacy.

Madonna is getting the scrubs placed around her new house in Bridgehampton, Long Island home, reports The Daily Express.

But the neighbours have become irate because workers are making too much noise and disturbing the peace of the rural community.

They are reportedly being loud, strewing and relieving themselves on other people”s property.

A source tells America”s Star magazine, “No one cares about the shrubs, but the workers are another matter! It”s not the best way for her to join the neighbourhood.” (ANI)

Tasmanian man chokes girlfriend after she engages him in threesome

Melbourne, Mar 24 (ANI): A Tasmanian man in said to have bashed and choked his girlfriend until she blacked out after she tried to entice him into a threesome.

The Supreme Court in Burnie was told that the incident took place on a camping trip last April when the woman brought her female friend along and confessed to her partner, Phillip Hilton Bissett, that she was bisexual.

She then plied Bissett, 44, with alcohol to make him “more receptive” to the notion of a threesome, and after they engaged in some “mild intimacy”, the two women became more involved with each other.

Bissett, who was drunk, decided to drive off in his car, but in his inebriated state he ended up crashing into bushes.

His girlfriend ran after him and tried to take the car keys from him, but Bissett slapped her and pushed her to the ground.

She tried to run off, but Bissett punched her to the head, chest and back before choking her until she lost consciousness.

The victim suffered bruising and a sore neck but recovered, and Bissett, who pleaded guilty to two counts of assault on March 23, had to spend the night and next day in police custody.

Justice David Porter said the relationship continued and the pair had since become engaged.

“She has been reluctant to see the matter pursued,” News.com.au quoted Justice Porter as saying.

“I am told, and I accept, that there was no violence in this relationship, nor has there been since,” he said.

The judge said domestic violence cases were normally considered a serious breach of trust in a relationship.

“I accept that you are remorseful and that there is little likelihood of repetition,” he said.

“It must be noted that the events were witnessed or heard by a number of children and young persons,” he added.

Bissett received a three-month jail sentence, wholly suspended on condition he is of good behaviour for two years. (ANI)

‘Jackson’s minders threatened doctor into giving him prescription drugs’

Washington, July 14(ANI): A doctor has revealed that Michael Jackson’s bodyguards had threatened him when he refused to give the singer prescription drugs at Las Vegas in 2003.

The unnamed physician claims to have visited the icon in his hotel suite after he was told that Jackson was suffering from cough and sore throat.

“The whole thing was staged. It was all a lie. They just wanted drugs. They wanted me to call in all these pills under someone else’s name,” Contactmusic quoted him as telling Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper.

He described: “His minder started giving me a rough time. He was trying to intimidate me. I said, ‘I can’t do that,’ and he replied, ‘What do you mean, they always do that.’ “

The doctor who spoke in condition of anonymity said that he first thought the episode to be a prank on him.

He said: “The handler came up to me and put a finger in my chest and said, ‘You do that.’

“I was waiting for someone to jump out of bushes and say ‘You’ve been punked!’ I felt like I was on ‘Candid Camera.’ “

Now, the doctor believes that the King of Pop was suffering from autism, which is a brain development disorder.

He said that the singer displayed “classic signs of autism”, that include poor social interaction and communication, abnormal intensity or focus, severe insomnia and unusual eating habits. (ANI)

Leopard killed by villagers in Uttar Pradesh

Ballia (Uttar Pradesh), July 1 (ANI): Angry villagers on Tuesday killed a leopard, which had been creating havoc for quite some time in Rasra area of Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh.

“Some people were sitting when suddenly the leopard attacked. Then the villagers chased the animal and it hid itself into the bushes. The villagers then came with their spears and other weapons and we bravely fought the beast and killed it,” said Gangadeen, a resident.

The carcass of the leopard was later on handed over to the forest department.

India’s leopards are under threat, with increasing number of these spotted feline beauties being poached for their hide and body parts.

Depletion of their habitat has also threatened the leopards, forcing them to stray into human settlements – attacking people, poultry birds and livestock cattle – and often getting killed in return.

According to Wildlife Protection Society of India, despite being an endangered and protected species at least 228 leopards have been killed since January 2006.

India had about 7,300 leopards according to a 1997 census, but conservationists say the number is now likely to be much lower. (ANI)

Obama to host poetry party at White House

Washington, May 13 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has invited writers and musicians to perform in what is being billed as the first White House poetry party.

Consolidating his reputation for cool after his performance as a stand-up comic on Saturday night, Obama has invited poets and writers, backed by jazz musicians, to perform in the East Room tonight.

According to The Guardian, it was originally billed as a poetry slam but the White House later corrected this, saying that a slam is a competition, which the president’s party was not. It was a jam.

Obama promised on the campaign trail that if he was elected, he would throw the White House open to as wide a range of people as possible. Tonight is intended as part of that.

But it is also because Obama is fond of poetry. He said on the campaign trail no one should graduate from university without having read poetry and has been spotted with a copy works from the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott in his back pocket.

Two poems, Pop and Underground, by the president published in the literary magazine Feast in 1981 surfaced last year.

Since becoming president, the Obamas, who are often seen at theatre and concert halls round Washington much more than the Bushes, have hosted a series of cultural events at the White House. (ANI)

Here is how Bush spends his retirement in Texas

Dallas (Texas, US), Apr.11 (ANI): Eight years after serving as the 43rd President of the United States, George W Bush loves to lead the simple life in Dallas, Texas.

Bush almost always arrives at his Dallas office by 7:30 a.m., a few minutes before many of his employees. He works on his book with the help of a speechwriter, leaves for a late afternoon bike ride and spends his evenings reading or watching televised golf or baseball.

Neither he nor Laura like to cook, so they have relied on food brought by friends or prepared meals from EatZi’s, a local market.

Their 1.13-acre property — valued at about 2.4 million dollars — is cocooned by 40 acres of private land and a trout-filled lake.

Two oak trees shade the front yard. The Secret Service occupies a house next door. A barrier of orange cones, two police cruisers and four Secret Service agents who scan the perimeter with binoculars restricts entrance into the cul-de-sac. The Bushes plan to install a permanent gate outside the cul-de-sac later this year.

He spends most of his weekends with his wife Lauraat their isolated ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he likes to wake up early, roam the 1,600 acres with a chainsaw and cut new bike trails.

Most of his weekdays are spent 95 miles north, in Preston Hollow, an upper-class section of Dallas where he lived for seven years before becoming governor of Texas in 1995. He has declined to give interviews, except to discuss baseball or his book, and neighbours remain silent so as not to violate his privacy.
About once each week, Bush travels to give a speech or raise money for his 300 million dollar presidential center, but he always moves inside an insulated bubble.

On a trip to Calgary last month, he flew into town on a private jet and ate in a private room at a restaurant with three friends and the Secret Service. Eighty police officers provided extra security.

Bush works with a dozen aides from his administration, socializes with friends he has known for decades and lives in a conservative neighbourhood that voted for him — both times — by a ratio greater than 2 to 1.

He dismisses analysis of his presidency as premature, regrets little and refrains from engaging in the snippety back-and-forth between the Obama administration and Bush loyalists such as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Bush feels content with his presidency, friends said. Now he will try to explain his two terms by writing a book and building a presidential center at Dallas’s Southern Methodist University, so that history will have the means to judge him fairly. (ANI)

Robbers assault woman; residents nab two of gang

Two robbers were nabbed by residents of Willingdon Colony while they were trying to flee after assaulting a 54-year-old woman on Tuesday night. When a gang of four robbers broke into the house of 60-year-old Hartman Arousio, little did they knew that his wife was inside. As a security measure, Arousio, a homeopathic doctor, used to lock the door from outside before leaving for his clinic.

Senior police inspector Dilip Gaikwad of Santa Cruz police said, “Arousio and his wife Mabel stay at Willingdon Colony. Arousio said he used to lock the door from outside to ensure his wife’s safety. His wife would hardly venture out of the house.” The robbers must have kept a tab on Arousios’ movements. On Tuesday night around 9.15, four robbers entered the house through a window on the first floor.

“The robbers must have thought that the house is empty. However, after entering the room, they were taken aback when they saw Mabel. They hit her with a wooden plank to stop her from raising an alarm,” said Gaikwad. The robbers then searched the house for valuables and cash, but could not find anything. They finally left with some old clothes. While they were fleeing, a few residents spotted them and nabbed two of them.

Jeetu Dedhia, a resident, said, “We were taking a stroll when we spotted four people moving around in a suspicious manner. One of them even tried to hide the bags behind the bushes. We then gave them a chase and managed to nab two of them.”

Mabel was taken to Nanavati Hospital and is under treatment for the head injuries. Arousio was unavailable for comment. Gaikwad said, “We have arrested the two accused and booked them for trespassing and assault.”

Robbers assault woman; residents nab two of gang

Two robbers were nabbed by residents of Willingdon Colony while they were trying to flee after assaulting a 54-year-old woman on Tuesday night. When a gang of four robbers broke into the house of 60-year-old Hartman Arousio, little did they knew that his wife was inside. As a security measure, Arousio, a homeopathic doctor, used to lock the door from outside before leaving for his clinic.

Senior police inspector Dilip Gaikwad of Santa Cruz police said, “Arousio and his wife Mabel stay at Willingdon Colony. Arousio said he used to lock the door from outside to ensure his wife’s safety. His wife would hardly venture out of the house.” The robbers must have kept a tab on Arousios’ movements. On Tuesday night around 9.15, four robbers entered the house through a window on the first floor.

“The robbers must have thought that the house is empty. However, after entering the room, they were taken aback when they saw Mabel. They hit her with a wooden plank to stop her from raising an alarm,” said Gaikwad. The robbers then searched the house for valuables and cash, but could not find anything. They finally left with some old clothes. While they were fleeing, a few residents spotted them and nabbed two of them.

Jeetu Dedhia, a resident, said, “We were taking a stroll when we spotted four people moving around in a suspicious manner. One of them even tried to hide the bags behind the bushes. We then gave them a chase and managed to nab two of them.”

Mabel was taken to Nanavati Hospital and is under treatment for the head injuries. Arousio was unavailable for comment. Gaikwad said, “We have arrested the two accused and booked them for trespassing and assault.”

‘No drama Obama’ and MMS style similar

London, Apr.2 (ANI): On day two, the three thousand journalists who have come from around the world to cover the G-20 summit are all but acutely aware of the difference in styles of the current US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W.Bush.

There is no backslapping, chummy chummy shoulder massage, or man-hugs with Obama. He is reserved, but warm. A style that is similar to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is never effusive, however warm his ties with world leaders. Bush and Singh had a warm chemistry, but all the demonstrativeness of warmth came from Bush, not Singh
Obama’s interactions bordered on the awkward. They both began with their customary reservedness but then, their attempt to be humorous at the press conference fell flat. The geekiness that typifies Obama’s style left no room for chumminess with Brown though they were on a first name basis from the word go.

Obama does not share the same degree of warmth towards Britain as the two Bushes, Clinton or even Reagan. The set of DVDs that Obama gifted Brown during the latter’s visit to the White House last month did not go down well here in the local press.

But he seems to have put those vibes to rest and even tried to make amends by gifting an ipod to the Queen. Ta 6GB silver Mini version the ipod, comes loaded with pictures of the Queen’s last visit to the US. Apparently the Queen already owns a a 6GB silver mini version. Fortunately Obama did not wink at the Queen like Bush did nor did he touch the small of her back Australian PM John Howard had in 2007.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave the Queen a limp handshake which is the proper way. Of course, that he does that with other non-royalty VIP’s is another matter!

Singh’s mild manner and quiet confidence is much appreciated in the international community. His speech at Gordon Brown’s banquet yesterday was quite a rap on the knuckles for the rich nations of the world. He basically told them in no uncertain terms…open your markets, set your house in order, tell your banks not to be protectionist, don’t bully international lending bodies to give your guys the money…you cant ignore us anymore, and if you do you won’t get out of this quagmire….you dragged us into this mess and you gotta get us out.

But he isn’t saying it the Sarkozy (French President) way which is like a sulking school boy almost seeming like Navin Patnaik. He isn’t doing it the Angela Merkel (German Chancellor) way either, which is like Jayalalitha on the Cauvery issue. Merkel is so obsessed with nationalist parameters she refuses to see the larger issue…somewhat like the lady from Poes Garden whose my people, my river, shackles her from seeing the whole picture.
Autocratic ways and narcissistic personalities crush consensus building in international meets such as this. And this is a grouping of rich nations. Yet the leaders seem to be putting aside their differences simply because there is just so much at stake here. Their economies are going down the tube and their people are demanding action. By Smita Prakash (ANI)

Tulip festival begins in Kashmir

Srinagar, Mar 25 (ANI): One of the world’s largest tulip garden “Siraj Bagh” which is spread over 600 kanals of land at the foothills of Zabarwan overlooking the famed dal lake here was opened for the tourists on Tuesday.

Srinagar’s Tulip garden has 60 varieties of multi colored tulips. Almost 1.2 million Tulip bulbs will be ready by the first week of April in the garden, which is being developed over 100 kanals of land.

State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who was the first visitor here hopes that more and more tourists would visit the garden from within and across the country.

“I want people from all over the country to visit this garden and enjoy its scenic beauty,” Omar added.

‘Siraj Bagh’, which has a unique and feasible topography suits different varieties of flowers. It has slopes suited for different varieties of fruit plants and wilderness suitable for wild flora and bushes.

People who were associated with tourism in Kashmir have also expressed hope that the garden would bring in bulk of tourists to the valley.

“The main purpose of this garden was to motivate tourism and it should benefit the taxi drivers, house boat owners, travel operators in their income,” said Ghulam Sarwar Naquash, Director of Floriculture.

Tourists who came here on the first day of opening, were attracted by the scenic beauty of the garden.

” I have been here for the first time. I have seen the colours on the fields. It’s fabulous especially the background, the mountains and whole of it,” said Peter Mark, a tourist from Holland.

Tulip, which has its origin in Persia (Iran), was introduced in Europe in 17th century, where it had been developed in different varieties.

Belonging to the Liliaceae family, Tulips are best suited for dry soil of mountain areas and require small amount of water but on regular basis.

Floriculture experts see a great scope in cultivating tulips from aesthetic point of view. Holland is the largest producer of tulips, which inhabit the mountain areas extending from Europe to Central Asia.

The plantation of tulips begins from September, before the start of winter season, which inhibits its growth. By Showket Jan (ANI)

Bonnie and Clyde ‘were no romantic gangsters’

New York, Mar 7 (ANI): The two most notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde have been revealed to be totally opposite from the sexy image portrayed by actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.

Jeff Guinn, has in his new bio “Go Down Together,” revealed that the two criminals were both cripples.

“He deliberately cut off two of his own toes while in a Texas prison and limped badly, and Bonnie’s leg was so horribly burned in a car wreck caused by Clyde’s reckless driving that she hopped rather than walked, and usually had to be carried,” the New York Post quoted him as having written.

“The couple also spent most nights in their car, eating cans of cold beans, relieving themselves behind bushes and bathing in streams,” he had stated. (ANI)

Govt. rural schemes transforming lives of BPL families in Uttarakhand

Haldwani (Nainital), March1 (ANI): Various rural schemes being operational under the Panchayati Raj system of the Centre are making a difference in the lives of BPL(below poverty line) families across Uttarakhand.

Through National Rurual Employment Guarantee Scheme Act, the Indira Awaas Yojna and Swaran Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna, in particular, a large number of needy people are getting benefited here.

For instance in Haldwani Block of Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, local residents are cherishing the benefits of the Panchayati Raj schemes to the optimum level.

Last year, on April 1, the National Rural Guarantee Scheme was started here under which 3,752 workers were distributed Job Card and about 2,300 individuals’ bank accounts were opened. Today, the workers are getting employment at their villages.

Kamla Devi, one of the beneficiaries in here told that she does cleaning and the work of cutting bushes. But she is delighted to get a regular work and also that her earning are getting deposited in bank.

One village head, Shekhar Chand, said that the work is being done under the scheme and there are several BPL families earning their livelihood and surviving because of that. ” In my village, 39 such cards (for employment) have been made. Everyday there is requirement for 10 to 12 persons.

Moreover, the BPL families in the Block, are also enjoying benefits under the Indiar Awaas Yojna, which is meant to help construction of dwelling units by members of Scheduled Castes/ Schedule Tribes, freed bonded labourers and also non- SC/ST rural poor below the poverty line by providing them with grant-in-aid.

Under the Indira Awaas Yojna, people used to get a grant of Rs.27,500 an amount which has been now increased to 38,500 for benefiting the needy.

About 230 families here have received grant for pucca houses in the last three years whereas 103 families were supported for constructing hatched houses.

Most of the beneficiary families admit that in the absence of such a support from government, things couldn’t have been possible for us.

Saraswati, on of such beneficiaries, said she received a grant of Rs. 27,000 from the government. In the absence of such a support, she could not think of constructing her own house. She thanks the UPA Government at the center for all this.

The Centre is also extending support to the needy families in villages through grants under Swaran Jayanti Swa-Rozgar Yojna. Under this scheme, the beneficiary gets 25 per cent subsidy which has enabled many families to be on their own in life.

Parvati Devi, one of the beneficiaries of Swarna Jayanti Swa-Rozgar Yojna, said after the death of her husband she was left with no source of livelihood. “We got a loan of Rs. 40,000 under which we got rebate of Rs.10,000. It has helped us tremendously..

Besides, under this scheme, 130 women groups have also been formed of which 81 groups have been given grants.

“Yes, there have been lots of benefits for the villagers from the schemes. For example- the rural employment scheme, this scheme is helping the unemployed youth who used to go out in search of jobs. But now they can stay back and work here,” said R P Gajrola, Block Developmemt Officer.

Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh recently stated in the Rajya Sabha that 2.7 million households have already been given employment for 100 days in the first phase.

Around 3.6 million more households benefited in the second phase and another 2.7 million households in the third phase of the implementation of the scheme.

According to a data, 49 per cent women, 30 per cent Scheduled Castes and 25 per cent Scheduled Tribes have benefited by the scheme so far.

Further, the government proposes to reach out to more than 40 million households under its flagship programme till the end of March in the current financial year. By Vipul Goyal (ANI)

Jordan was a sex attack victim at age of 6

London, Mar 1 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse at the age of six.

Jordan also revealed how she was once photographed by a convicted paedophile as a teenager.

“Worse things happened to me when I was younger than that,” News of the World quoted her as saying.

In an interview to Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, the 30-year-old model choked with emotion as she revealed that she was sexually attacked in park when she was six years old.

“In a park, but yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never really . . . Oh my God, what’s the matter with me?” she said as her voice shook with emotion.

She was playing hide and seek in bushes with a school friend, while her mum chatted with a friend on a nearby bench.

A man appeared and promised to buy the two girls an ice cream. The pervert then lined up the two terrified girls and exposed himself. He also touched the girls.

Katie was terrified by the attack but too afraid to scream. She felt she should do what the attacker said.

Meanwhile some older children saw what was happening and scared the attacker off. Her mother immediately called the police but the man quickly disappeared and was never caught.

She also talked about her ordeal at the hands of the photographer her mum had hired to help launch her modelling career at 13.

He turned out to be a pervert who insisted she pose in her underwear. Photos of her were later found plastered over the walls of his home. (ANI)

Jordan was a sex attack victim at age of 6

London, Mar 1 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse at the age of six.

Jordan also revealed how she was once photographed by a convicted paedophile as a teenager.

“Worse things happened to me when I was younger than that,” News of the World quoted her as saying.

In an interview to Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, the 30-year-old model choked with emotion as she revealed that she was sexually attacked in park when she was six years old.

“In a park, but yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never really . . . Oh my God, what’s the matter with me?” she said as her voice shook with emotion.

She was playing hide and seek in bushes with a school friend, while her mum chatted with a friend on a nearby bench.

A man appeared and promised to buy the two girls an ice cream. The pervert then lined up the two terrified girls and exposed himself. He also touched the girls.

Katie was terrified by the attack but too afraid to scream. She felt she should do what the attacker said.

Meanwhile some older children saw what was happening and scared the attacker off. Her mother immediately called the police but the man quickly disappeared and was never caught.

She also talked about her ordeal at the hands of the photographer her mum had hired to help launch her modelling career at 13.

He turned out to be a pervert who insisted she pose in her underwear. Photos of her were later found plastered over the walls of his home. (ANI)

Jordan was a sex attack victim at age of 6

London, Mar 1 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse at the age of six.

Jordan also revealed how she was once photographed by a convicted paedophile as a teenager.

“Worse things happened to me when I was younger than that,” News of the World quoted her as saying.

In an interview to Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, the 30-year-old model choked with emotion as she revealed that she was sexually attacked in park when she was six years old.

“In a park, but yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never really . . . Oh my God, what’s the matter with me?” she said as her voice shook with emotion.

She was playing hide and seek in bushes with a school friend, while her mum chatted with a friend on a nearby bench.

A man appeared and promised to buy the two girls an ice cream. The pervert then lined up the two terrified girls and exposed himself. He also touched the girls.

Katie was terrified by the attack but too afraid to scream. She felt she should do what the attacker said.

Meanwhile some older children saw what was happening and scared the attacker off. Her mother immediately called the police but the man quickly disappeared and was never caught.

She also talked about her ordeal at the hands of the photographer her mum had hired to help launch her modelling career at 13.

He turned out to be a pervert who insisted she pose in her underwear. Photos of her were later found plastered over the walls of his home. (ANI)