‘Berlusconi will have to resign if immunity law overturned’
Rome, Sep. 18 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would be forced to resign if laws providing him immunity are overturned by the Constitutional Court next month, his lawyers have admitted.
“If the Constitutional Court, which begins its deliberations on October 6, overturns the law there would be damage to the functions of an elected official, [...]
Election Commission reviews Haryana assembly election arrangements
Chandigarh, Sep 5 (ANI): The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday visited Haryana and met leaders of various political parties to review arrangements being made prior to the Haryana Assembly elections scheduled to be held on October 13.
Chief Election Commissioner [...]
Brit dog owner fined £1,100 for letting pet Labrador grow fat!
London, Sep 2 (ANI): A Brit dog owner has been fined more than 1,100 pounds for letting his pet Labrador get so fat that he weighed the same as a grown man.
NHS worker Melvyn Davies, 58, from Beaumaris in Anglesey, North Wales, has admitted to causing the 11st animal, known as Ben, unnecessary suffering.
The [...]
Murdered Indian Australian woman’s boyfriend wanted a family threesome
Brisbane, Aug.27 (ANI): Accused killer Max Sica wanted a threesome with his then Indian Australian girlfriend Neelma Singh and another member of her family, the dead girl’s older sister has told a Brisbane Magistrates Court.
Archana Pathik also told the court how Sica had hacked into her email account to send a sex profile to people [...]
UK cops to probe injured footie Davenport on alleged race row
London, Aug. 26 (ANI): West Ham soccer star Calum Davenport will be quizzed by cops over an alleged race row before he was stabbed in both legs.
The Sun quoted police sources as saying the inquiry initially focused on the stabbing of the 26-year-old West Ham defender, but now they [...]
Murdered Indian Australian woman’s jewellery, diary missing, says her mother
Brisbane (Australia), Aug.19 (ANI): The mother of murdered Indian Australian woman Neelma Singh today told a Brisbane magistrate’s court that a sapphire given to her by her boyfriend Max Sica, and a diary were missing from the home where her body was found in 2003.
The Courier Mail quoted Neelma’s mother Shirley Singh as telling [...]
Prison officer charged with supplying porn to inmates
Melbourne, July 12 (ANI): A prison officer, who allegedly supplied pornography to inmates at a prison farm near Beaudesert, Australia, is under investigation.
The police and Queensland Corrective Services raided the Palen Creek Correctional Centre to find two portable memory sticks that allegedly contained pornographic images, in the prison officer’s locker, the Courier Mail reports.
The officer [...]
‘Harry Potter’ star charged with growing marijuana
London, July 8 (ANI): ‘Harry Potter’ star Jamie Waylett has been charged with illegally growing 10 marijuana plants in his north London home.
Waylett, who plays the beefy bully Vincent Crabbe in the ‘Harry Potter’ movie franchise, was first arrested in April after cops found bags of cannabis in his car, reports the New York Daily [...]
UK man makes up kidnap story to avoid wife’s nagging
London, Jul 4 (ANI): A man, who was weary of his wife’s nagging, made up a story that he had been kidnapped at knifepoint as he dared not tell her he had been to the bookies.
Peter Woodward, 57, told a court that in order to get away from his wife, he made up the [...]
The 10 questions that are making Berlusconi’s life a living hell
London, June 27 (ANI): The ongoing saga involving Silvio Berlusconi and his alleged sexcapades has taken a fresh turn after a leading Italian newspaper asked the Prime Minister ten questions about his relationship with 18-year-old aspiring model Noemi Letizia.
For weeks La Repubblica has repeatedly printed the questions, and yesterday it updated them, reports The Times.
They [...]
Judge blasts council for wasting £5k of taxpayers’ cash over dropped wrapper case!
London, Jun 20 (ANI): A judge has blasted a council officer for wasting 5000 pounds of taxpayers’ money by dragging a teenager to crown court over a dropped mint wrapper.
The sweet wrapper had blown out of Larissa Wilkinson’s car window when her 18-month-old niece unwrapped it, and when the officer spotted it, the 19-year-old girl [...]
Polling for two Tripura Lok Sabha seats begins amid tight security
Agartala, Apr 23 (ANI): Polling for two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura began Thursday morning amid tight security and air surveillance by military helicopters.
“Over 30,000 central paramilitary troopers accompanied by state security forces have taken positions across the state to deal with separatist outfits before and during the polling. There is an air surveillance particularly [...]
Danielle Bux’s mum nicked for shoplifting
London, Apr 19 (ANI): Danielle Bux’s mother has been arrested for shoplifting from a B and Q store.
Dopey Kim Lewis, mother of the Hell’s Kitchen star and fiancée of football legend Gary Lineker, along with her friend stuck her own homemade price labels on a trolley-full of items to pretend their prices had been slashed [...]
Congress responsible for Babri demolition: Lalu
Manigachi (Bihar), Apr 18 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Saturday said the Congress was responsible for the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya in 1992.
“The Congress failed to protect the Babri mosque, as it did nothing to prevent it. Not only the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the [...]
Pranab says all crucial facts on Mumbai terror attacks given to Pakistan
Kolkata, Apr 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that all necessary information on Mumbai terror attacks has already been given to Pakistan.
“I can’t help their assessment. Whatever material available out of the investigations, we have given to them. The man has been arrested, he has made statements before the magistrates, and [...]
Maya raps poll panel for babu transfer
MAYAWATI ON Wednesday slammed the Election Commission for transferring a top state official, which, she claimed, had been done acting on the complaint of a rival political party. “There was no ground for the transfer and #8230;Rather, the EC took the action in haste without conducting a thorough probe of the complaint,” said the Uttar [...]
Man facing 1983 girl murder charge
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Two British youngsters charged after “sickening” attack
London – Two brothers, as young as 10 and 11, appeared in court in Britain Tuesday charged with the attempted murder of two boys of similar age who were subjected to a “sickening” attack involving bricks, a knife and burning cigarettes.
The two victims, aged 9 and 11, are continuing to receive hospital treatment after suffering [...]
Buy Charles Dickens’ ‘Bleak House’ for 2M
London, April 6 (ANI): Victorian novelist Charles Dickens’s former home Bleak House in Broadstairs, Kent, is up for sale.
The cliff top building, which has six bedrooms, is being sold for two million pounds.
It went on the market with estate agent Terence Painter Properties.
The fort-like building is the same house where Dickens wrote one of his [...]



