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Written by Rahul on 13 August 2009
Islamabad, Aug 13 (ANI): An 80-year-old woman in Pakistan was allegedly raped by a 70-year-old ‘hakeem’ in his clinic after he intoxicated her.
The elderly woman registered an FIR against the accused Ahmed Din and Kot Lakhpat police arrested him on her complaint, charging him with rape, unnatural offence and intoxication, reports the Daily Times.
The complainant, Fateh Bibi, in her application submitted stated that she went to Ashraf Dawakhana in Awami Colony for medicine for her headache.
She said the hakeem gave her some medicine and advised her to take it right then, saying that it would relieve her of pain immediately.
Fateh alleged that after taking the medicine, she fell unconscious and the hakeem tied her up and undressed her.
She said the accused raped and sodomised her. She requested the police to take action against the accused for raping her and hurting her by giving her a poisonous substance.
Kot Lakhpat Police Station House Officer (SHO) Farooq Ahmed said the police had registered an FIR against the hakeem and arrested him. He said the medical examination of the woman had proved the allegations.
He said above all, the accused had confessed his crime. The police would produce him in the court today (Thursday) to get his physical remand. He said police were interrogating the accused, who had not confessed to any other crime yet.
He said the accused seemed to have committed such a crime for the first time.
Rana Muhammad Shabbir advocate said the offences mentioned in the FIR could amount to capital punishment.
He said if the offences were proved in the court, punishment for rape under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) should be death or imprisonment for 25 years and should also be liable to fine.
He said punishment for committing unnatural offence under Section 377 of the PPC was life imprisonment and should be liable to fine.
Punishment for hurting someone by means of poison under Section 337-J of the PPC was imprisonment up to 10 years, he added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 09 April 2009
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh popularised the genre in films with songs like ‘Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho’ and ‘Hoshwalon ko khabar kya’. But the singer rues that the current lot of music directors lack a taste for such soulful renditions.
‘Music composers in Bollywood today don’t have a taste for ghazals and so the genre is missing in films. Composers are influenced by western music and are churning out more songs inspired by western beats,’ Singh, who is back with his new album ‘Inteha’, told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
While Singh has enthralled music buffs with his lilting melodies in films, his strength has always been the non-film sector. Entering the music scene with ‘The Unforgettables’, he carved a niche for himself through record sales of albums like ‘Beyond Time’, ‘Sajda’, ‘Insight’, ‘Mirage’ and ‘Soz’.
His latest offering ‘Inteha’ encapsulates eight tracks and the singer says he came out with this one on the behest of his fans.
”Inteha’ has a fresh flavour and a new treatment. The lyricists are new and so is the kind of music. The only thing old about the album is me. All my fans have been asking for ‘new’ ghazals since a long time. So I have come out with this album and I hope they like it,’ Singh explained.
While the music is composed by Singh himself, the lyrics have been penned by a team of young lyricists – Aalok Shrivastav, Payyam Sayeedi, Faragh Rushvi, Rajendranath Rahbar, Sanjay Masoom, Amjad Islam Amjad and Naseem Ajmer.
The singer, who enjoys a huge fan base in India and abroad, is leaving no stone unturned to promote the album.
While the launch took place on board a Kingfisher flight, Singh also featured on Zee TV’s daily soap ‘Banoo Main Teri Dulhann’ to promote it.
The singer, who will be performing in 16 cities in the US from next month, calls right promotion the ‘need of the hour’.
‘Today is the time of promotions. It is the need of the hour. If you don’t promote your album or your music, nobody will know about it and the album will remain in stores,’ Singh said.
But what about claims that the market for non-film albums is shrinking and there are no takers for music in this category?
‘The market is not shrinking. Proper promotion is required. Whatever is promoted well, sells. I don’t think there is any change in the taste of audiences. People still like ghazals a lot,’ he asserted.
But the voice that evokes deep sentiments among listeners with his songs has a complaint.
‘Today, channels are only playing Bollywood songs, so how will people come to know about an album that has been released? Even radio channels don’t give airtime to ghazals that much,’ Singh rued.
He also feels there are budding Ghazal singers in the country but most of them start studying other genres in search of quick success.
‘Most people want to become successful very soon. So even if they start as ghazal singers, they leave it and try singing some other form to gain instant recognition,’ he said.
Singh stressed that those who want to be a ghazal singer should learn Urdu along with classical music.
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Written by Rahul on 07 April 2009
Los Angeles, April 7 (Xinhua) Gertrude Baines, the oldest woman of the world celebrated Monday her 115th birthday at a hospital here with music, cake and a letter from President Barack Obama.
Baines received a proclamation from the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledging her as the world’s oldest person after 115-year-old Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus died in January.
In the letter, Obama wished her a happy birthday. Baines, who was born in 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, has said she plans to vote for Obama again in 2012.
Baines was featured on local television newscasts in November when she cast her ballot for Obama for president, saying she backed him ‘because he’s for the coloured’. She said she never thought she would live to see a black man become president.
‘Her only complaint to me, well there are two complaints, number one, she doesn’t like the bacon. It’s not crisp enough,’ her doctor, Charles Witt Jr, told local TV station KCAL9.
‘And the other thing is that she fusses about her… arthritis of her knees. She told me that she owes her longevity to the Lord, that she never did drink, she never did smoke and she never did fool around.’
Baines, whose father was the son of slaves, left her family during childhood. She worked as a maid in University of Ohio dormitories until her retirement and has been living at the Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles for more than 10 years
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Written by Rahul on 03 April 2009
A 28-year-old Delhi-based tailor was arrested on Wednesday following a complaint lodged by a Sector-22 resident alleging the former had duped him of his mobile phone in return for a ‘dummy’ piece. The police have recovered four mobile phones and 11 dummy phones from his possession.
The accused, identified as one Rizwan, told the police that their target were teenagers, who wanted to possess expensive mobile phones without paying much.
According to the police, Harshmeet Singh, a resident of Sector 22, filed a complaint alleging that two persons had duped him of his Motorola V-8 mobile phone in Sector-17 Plaza on Tuesday afternoon. In his complaint, Singh said the accused showed him several high-end mobile phones and offered discounts upto 40 per cent. Convinced by the demonstration given, Singh told the duo that he did not have enough money with him, to which the accused proposed an exchange offer.
Singh obliged and it was only on reaching home, that he found a ‘dummy’ instead of the original phone in the packet, said the police.
After the matter was reported at the Neelam police post in Sector 17, the police tracked down the accused near the Sector-17 Municipal Corporation, when they were on a scooter (DL-7SAA-9384) reportedly looking for another target.
While the other accomplice managed to flee, Rizwan was arrested and produced before a local court that remanded him in three days of police custody.
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Written by Rahul on 03 April 2009
A day after it was accused of using casteist remarks, the Congress today reaffirmed its stand that the Mauli Jagran incident of Tuesday was pre-planned by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). H S Lucky, president of the Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress, was accused of using derogatory remarks against a Dalit, leading to widespread protests. Today, however, Dalit leaders of the party came out in Lucky’s support and said the allegations against him are false.
The incident had taken a political turn after members of all parties supported protestors who had demanded that a case be registered against Lucky.
Addressing mediapersons, Lucky said the initial complaint against him made no mention of casteist remarks. “The initial complaint stated that while I was beating up the complainant, someone with a beard made casteist remarks. It was revised later. The BSP is only trying to target people working closely with Congress candidate Pawan Bansal. We have more voters among the Dalits than other parties. Our popularity is scaring them and they are resorting to such measures,” he said.
Demanding an impartial inquiry by the UT police, Lucky said he was ready to serve any punishment, if found guilty.
Councillor Davinder Singh Babla, whose name also figured in the complaint, said he was not even present at the padyatra in Mauli Jargran.
In a statement issued today, Bansal requested his co-candidates to refrain from indulging in politics of opportunism and rioting.
Meanwhile, members of the National Conference of Delhi Organisations (NACDOR) on Wednesday demanded that Lucky be arrested. Bhagat Rana, an NACDOR member said: “Lucky should be arrested for disrupting peace. If this is not done, we will start an agitation. The police should investigate the allegations of casteist remarks made against Sada Sawan Lehri. The incident should not be made a political issue… mistreatment of Dalits is a social issue.” In a statement issued today, members of the Bhagwan Valmiki Sobha Yatra Ayojak Committee also condemned Lucky’s statement.
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
Massachusetts’ top securities regulator charged hedge fund firm Fairfield Greenwich Group with fraud for allegedly lying to investors about confessed swindler Bernard Madoff’s phony management business.
The action on Wednesday marks the first charges against one of Madoff’s feeder funds, which funneled billions of dollars into the disgraced Wall Street legend’s long-running Ponzi scheme.
William Galvin, Massachusetts’ secretary of state, accused Fairfield Greenwich, a prominent hedge fund firm in Connecticut, of failing to check how Madoff generated the strong and steady returns he said he made year after year.
“The allegations against Fairfield in this complaint outline a total disregard for such (fiduciary) responsibility which helped the Madoff scheme to stay afloat for so long,” Galvin said in a statement.
Galvin wants Fairfield Greenwich to return the money that Massachusetts investors lost in the scheme and return the performance fees they paid the firm. He is also seeking an administrative fine against Fairfield.
Fairfield Greenwich’s Sentry Funds had placed about $7.2 billion, or 95 percent of its assets, with Madoff, whose fraud appears to have totaled about $65 billion.
Galvin found that Fairfield Greenwich insiders pumped $14.8 million into Madoff’s business only days before the 70-year-old former Nasdaq stock market chairman confessed to authorities that his business had been a fraud.
Madoff, who was jailed on March 12 after pleading guilty, will be sentenced on June 16.
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
The Supreme Court will take up on Thursday the complaint of a Rae Bareli judge who recently received a threat days before he was scheduled to pronounce the judgment in a murder case in which a former MLA is the main accused and in which two witnesses have been murdered.
After he was threatened, Additional Session Judge of Rae Bareli Shivnath had sought guidance from District Judge Ashok Kumar Srivastava who, in turn, apprised the Supreme Court of the threat.
The judge also deferred the judgment in the case, originally scheduled for March 28, to April 10.
Government Counsel of Rae Bareli Kripa Shanker Tripathi said that the judge had written in the order sheet on March 24 that his family had received a threat. He stated that witnesses and complainants in the case had been threatened in the past also.
The judge did not say how he was threatened, but sources said the threat was conveyed by unidentified men through one of his relatives. Rae Bareli SP Tarun Gauba said they had registered an FIR against unidentified persons and are investigating.
Former MLA Akhilesh Singh, who is in Kanpur jail for the past two years, is the main accused in the case. His lawyer Tara Chand Gupta said his client had nothing to do with the threat.
The case relates to the murder of Congress leader Rakesh Pandey, who was shot dead in his Rae Bareli home by five unidentified men on July 2, 2002. His brother, Manoj Kumar Pandey, lodged an FIR against five people, including Singh, who was the then Congress MLA from Rae Bareli. He alleged that Singh had earlier threatened to eliminate his brother and had even attacked him over an old rivalry. Except Akhilesh, all the other accused in the case have got bail.
Manoj Pandey said that two witnesses in the case, Mangal Pandey and Babloo Shukla, were killed in 2004. “They were shot while they were on their way to Rae Bareli from Lucknow. There are 16 witnesses in the case,” he said.
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Wednesday booked a sitting Shiv Sena corporator and six other alleged members of the Pandav Putra gang under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for attempting to extort Rs 13 lakh from a person who wanted to renovate a room owned by him and sell it.
On March 24, Unit 2 of the Crime Branch had arrested Vijay Anand Vashirde (60), a Shiv Sena corporator from Ward 217, for accepting an extortion amount on behalf of the Pandav Putra gang. Six other accused identified as Mukesh Sondagar (32), Zakir Shaikh (32), Nisar Shaikh (43), Tabrez Maqbool (28), Laxman Kiran (27) and Siddharth Maekar alias Sidhu (30) were also arrested. All of them are allegedly members of the Pandav Putra gang headed by Deepak Walekar, who is charged with MCOCA and currently lodged in jail.
“Today we have applied MCOCA on Vashirde and the other arrested accused in the case, and have informed the special MCOCA court. All the accused have been remanded to police custody till April 9,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria.
According to the police, two months ago, the complainant sold a room located in 7th Kumbharwada lane to a person for Rs 25 lakh. The buyer told the complainant he would pay him if the room was renovated, to which the complainant agreed and started the repair work. Sondagar, who stays in the same building, provided the tip off to Sidhu who was controlling the gang. Sidhu demanded an amount of Rs 13 lakh from the complainant for allowing the renovation to continue following which a complaint was lodged with the Crime Branch and a trap was laid.
After changing locations to two different hotels, the extortionists called the complainant to a hotel in Kalbadevi where Sondagar, Zakir and Nisar asked for the money. Before handing over the amount, the complainant asked for a guarantee that he would not be harassed further. The trio took the complainant to another restaurant where Vashirde met them and took delivery of the cash.
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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
A day after it was accused of using casteist remarks, the Congress today reaffirmed its stand that the Mauli Jagran incident of Tuesday was pre-planned by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). H S Lucky, president of the Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress, was accused of using derogatory remarks against a Dalit, leading to widespread protests. Today, however, Dalit leaders of the party came out in Lucky’s support and said the allegations against him are false.
The incident had taken a political turn after members of all parties supported protestors who had demanded that a case be registered against Lucky.
Addressing mediapersons, Lucky said the initial complaint against him made no mention of casteist remarks. “The initial complaint stated that while I was beating up the complainant, someone with a beard made casteist remarks. It was revised later. The BSP is only trying to target people working closely with Congress candidate Pawan Bansal. We have more voters among the Dalits than other parties. Our popularity is scaring them and they are resorting to such measures,” he said.
Demanding an impartial inquiry by the UT police, Lucky said he was ready to serve any punishment, if found guilty.
Councillor Davinder Singh Babla, whose name also figured in the complaint, said he was not even present at the padyatra in Mauli Jargran.
In a statement issued today, Bansal requested his co-candidates to refrain from indulging in politics of opportunism and rioting.
Meanwhile, members of the National Conference of Delhi Organisations (NACDOR) on Wednesday demanded that Lucky be arrested. Bhagat Rana, an NACDOR member said: “Lucky should be arrested for disrupting peace. If this is not done, we will start an agitation. The police should investigate the allegations of casteist remarks made against Sada Sawan Lehri. The incident should not be made a political issue… mistreatment of Dalits is a social issue.” In a statement issued today, members of the Bhagwan Valmiki Sobha Yatra Ayojak Committee also condemned Lucky’s statement.
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Written by Rahul on 07 March 2009
Sydney, Mar 7 (ANI): Tourism Queensland has come under fire for choosing only young people “who looked cute in a bikini or… guy(s) with a washboard stomach”.
In a letter to Tourism Queensland CEO Anthony Hayes, a Canadian “baby boomer” and caretaker reject Mandy Spottiswoode has complaint that only beautiful people made to the ‘Best Job in the World’ shortlist.
She said that the government authority had misled applicants about the type of candidate it wanted.
“The original promotion stated that they were looking for someone who would enthusiastically promote Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Spottiswoode as saying.
“Nothing was said about age, or lack of it, being a primary qualification. Of the 50 shortlisted candidates, only a couple look as if they could possibly be over 35.
“Not only is this discrimination based on age, but it is ignoring the demographics of those who have the money and leisure time to travel, namely the baby boomers.
“If you wanted someone who looked cute in a bikini or a guy with a washboard stomach, you should have said so. Then all of us over a certain age could have saved ourselves the considerable amount of time we put into preparing our videos.
“Mostly, I feel that TQ was not honest to the contestants. This was a brilliant idea, which, in my opinion, has now become much less interesting than it could have been. I have been left with a distinctly bitter taste in my mouth,” she added.
However, a spokeswoman for Tourism Queensland has rubbished the criticism, insisting age was not a factor in the selection process.
The spokeswoman said it was to be expected that some of the nearly 35,000 people who did not make the cut would be disappointed.
“Tourism Queensland has been contacted by people who were unhappy that they were not shortlisted … (but) to be fair and equitable to all applicants, we must ensure that a consistent approach for processing and short-listing applicants has been adopted,” she said.
“We have also received hundreds of emails from applicants congratulating us on the campaign.
“However, the technical nature and physical requirements of the role meant there would have been more younger people who applied,” she added.
The six-month stint will require the successful applicant to explore neighbouring islands, swim, snorkel, discover wildlife, and the locals. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
Peshawar (Pakistan), Mar.6 (ANI): The truce inked between the government in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the defunct Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) last month in the Swat region, seems to have allowed the Taliban a chance to expand their harsh religious rule, reports the New York Times.ust days after the truce was signed, a member of a prominent anti-Taliban family returned to his mountain village, having received assurances from the government that it was safe.
The Taliban promptly kidnapped and tortured him before killing him.he militants then erected roadblocks to search cars for any relatives who dared travel there for his funeral. None did.
This week, two Pakistani soldiers who were part of a convoy escorting a water tanker were shot and killed because they failed to inform the Taliban in advance of their movements.
The imposition of the Shariah, in the area,includes a ban on music, a requirement that shops close during calls to prayer and the installation of complaint boxes for reports of anti-Islamic behavior.
Local residents are skeptical that girls’ schools will be allowed to reopen.
Previous accords with the militants in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal areas have effectively created mini-states with sanctuaries for Qaeda and Pakistani militants.
The Pakistani government has argued that the truce in Swat would free the Pakistani Army, reduce civilian suffering and satisfy popular dissatisfaction with the local judiciary.
However, hundreds of thousands of people who have fled in the past six months to camps in surrounding districts or to relatives’ homes are staying put, unsure what they would encounter if they dared to return.
The Pakistani government agreed to the cease-fire with an aging Islamic leader, Maulana Sufi Muhammad, on February 16 after the army had already ceded about 70 percent of Swat, a pocket of snow-capped peaks and fertile valleys, to Taliban fighters.
The government said it saw the truce as a way to separate what it considered to be more approachable militants, like Muhammad, from hard-line Taliban leaders like Maulana Fazlullah, his son-in-law, who is a young warlord flush with money and weapons.
There was no mention of the future of girls’ education in the accord on Wednesday, an ominous sign, said opponents of the Taliban.
The militants have burned hundreds of girls’ schools in Swat in the past year, and banished the students to their homes.
The chief minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Ameer Haider Hoti, said during a visit to Swat this week that the girls’ schools would reopen. But the provincial government is strapped for money, and there is speculation that the government cannot afford to rebuild the burned schools.
Local and provincial officials appear to be powerless in the face of the Taliban, and many remain in exile in Peshawar. Some officials have fled to Islamabad, the capital, some as far as London.
Those who have ventured into Swat to negotiate the accords with the Taliban have been shown who is in charge. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
London, March 6 (ANI): An auction company sued by King of Pop Michael Jackson has hit back at him, claiming that the singer had permitted it to sell his personal belongings.
Julien’s Auction House was sued by Jackson in Los Angeles on March 4 over entitlement to retain possession of the latter’s “personal property”.
The company was planning to sell the gates to the Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, Jackson’s famous rhinestone gloves and socks, and the hands of Johnny Depp’s movie character Edward Scissorhands that the singer owned.
Lodging their complaint, Jackson’s lawyers claimed that the auction house had repeatedly refused to return the items, which were due to be put up for sale on 22 April.
However, the company has now refuted the claims.
Darren Julien, the owner of the company, insists that Jackson was aware of the plans to put his belongings on the auction block.
“As you can imagine we’re quite shocked by it because we’ve been working very closely with Mr Jackson and his manager over the last eight months,” the Daily Express quoted him as telling British TV show GMTV.
“We are an auction house – that’s all we do – so if he didn’t want the items to be sold we don’t understand why we were given possession of them in the first place,” he added.
Julien is sure that the situation is just a mix-up between the two sides, and that it can be resolved.
“We are trying to sort this out but we are confident it’s just a misunderstanding because, like I said, the last eight months we’ve worked closely with them on this whole project,” he said. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Lucknow, Mar 5 (ANI): Poll banners and hoardings are being hurriedly pulled down from government buildings in Lucknow, after the Election Commission announced general election dates.
“When the dates were announced by the Election Commission, we started this activity in Lucknow. The Election Commission has sent a message that banners, flags and hoardings should be put up only according to the rules and norms.
Many such hoardings were put up by different parties. We have started removing them impartially,” said Dinesh Sharma, the city mayor.
He clarified that the hoardings had come up before the polls were announced and warned that any fresh violation of the poll code would be dealt with sternly under the law.
“Citizens in Lucknow are conscious and aware and when they see such hoardings and banners they start hating it. I just want the parties to put up such materials according to the rules and norms of the Election Commission or else not only will we remove them, but will also impose a fine. We will also submit a complaint to the Election Commission as well,” said Sharma.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner Nopalaswamy is here on a two-day visit, to review poll preparedness in the state.
On Wednesday, the Commission met representatives of various political parties and sought their suggestions for smooth conduct of polls.
Uttar Pradesh, which has the maximum of 80 seats, will have five-phased polls.
The main contest is between the Bahujan Samaj Party, the party which claims to represent the downtrodden, and the Samajwadi Party. The Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to regain a foothold while the Congress party is desperate to break the jinx of being a marginal player in the politically most crucial state. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): When it comes to women, it’s the brain and not the peripheral organs that play a major role in sexual dysfunction, according to a new study.
Over 40 percent of women in the 18 to 59 years age group experience sexual dysfunction, with lack of sexual interest – scientifically known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) – being the most commonly reported complaint.
Earlier studies of factors affecting sexual performance have largely focused on men, and on physiology of the body rather than the brain.
A multidisciplinary team from the Stanford University School of Medicine aimed at finding out what role the brain play in some women’s lack of sexual desire.
In the study, researchers compared brain-activation patterns of females having HSDD with those without it.
Sixteen women diagnosed with HSDD, along with 20 normal control subjects, took part in the study. All subjects identified themselves as heterosexual.
For the study, all the participants were shown erotic video segments interspersed among footage of female sporting events. These segments were separated by intervening tranquil sequences of such subjects as flowers, mountains or ocean waves to bring the women’s brains to a resting state between more-active segments.
Their brain activity was monitored by functional magnetic-resonance imaging, which allows the activity of different brain regions to be assessed in real time. The women also reported their subjective levels of sexual arousal throughout the viewing.
Meanwhile, the researchers also collected objective measurements of the women’s level of genital arousal.
It was found that the activity patterns throughout most of the brain were more or less identical among the HSDD and normal groups, but with a few notable exceptions.
There was a bigger jump in relative activity in three brain areas of HSDD women – the medial frontal gyrus, right inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral putamen – compared with the control subjects when shown the erotic clips.
In another brain area – the bilateral entorhinal cortex – the opposite effect occurred.
The finding establishes specific locations in the brain where activity in women with HSDD is altered in comparison with women not reporting this problem.
The results suggested that increased attention to one’s own responses to erotic stimuli plays some part in the sexual dysfunction.
The increased activation in the entorhinal cortex observed in the control subjects may correlate with an improved ability among women with no sexual dysfunction, compared with HSDD women, to lay down emotional memories related to sexual events.
“The results of this study provide yet another valuable tool for understanding the complexity of female sexual function as it relates to desire. The next step is to translate this information into the clinical realm, specifically as it relates to cognitive and pharmacotherapeutic approaches,” said Leah Millheiser, MD, clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynaecology.
The results appeared in the journal Neuroscience. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 26 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 26 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh appeared before a Delhi court on Thursday, minutes after a bailable warrant was issued against him for not presenting himself in connection with a criminal complaint filed by him in a two-year-old cheating case.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaweri Baweja issued a bailable warrant for Rs. 10,000 against Singh but the order was recalled when the SP leader personally appeared before the court after ten minutes.
Singh was asked to appear before the court on July 13.
The court had on February 20 imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 on Singh for his failure to depose before the judge.
The Rajya Sabha member had filed a complaint against Barun Kumar Verma on June 4, 2007, alleging he tried to extort money from him in connection with hearing of a case in the Supreme Court relating to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The court on Wednesday given its last warning to the complainant to appear before it. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 25 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 25 (ANI): A Delhi court has given final call to Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, to appear before it on Thursday to record his statement on a criminal complaint filed by him two years ago.
“It is stated by the counsel for the complainant that the matter be adjourned for tomorrow. Time and again, opportunity has been given to the complainant, but he has failed to appear in the court. Today, no application was filed, neither any reasonable ground has been mentioned,” the court said here on Wednesday.
Anoop Kumar Sharma, counsel for the accused, had sought the court’s directions to close the evidence in the matter, as Singh has failed to depose repeatedly.
On February 20, the court had imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on the Rajya Sabha MP for his failure to appear before the judge.
Singh, on June 4 2007, had filed a case against Barun Kumar Verma, alleging he tried to extort money from him in connection with a case in the Supreme Court relating to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 25 February 2009
London, February 25 (ANI): UK skin specialists have warned that excessive use of video game consoles can lead to a skin disorder, dubbed PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.
Describing this condition in the British Journal of Dermatology, the researchers have revealed that a 12-year-old girl had to attend a Swiss hospital recently after having intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands.
They say that the little girl, who was a regular user of a games console, recovered fully after 10 days of abstinence.
The report further reveals that upon examining the girl, doctors at the Geneva University Hospital concluded that she had a condition known as ‘idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis’-a condition that generally causes red, sore lumps on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
The disorder, previously found on the soles of the feet in children taking part in heavy physical activity like jogging,is thought to be linked to intense sweating.
The patient’s parents revealed that she played video games for several hours a day, and had continued to play even after developing the sores.
The doctors suspected that tight and continuous grasping of the console’shand-grips, repeated pushing of the buttons, and sweating caused by the tension of the game might have triggered the problem.
“This is an interesting discovery and one that the researchers are keen to share with other dermatologists, should they be confronted with similar, unexplained symptoms in a patient,” the BBC quoted Nina Goad, of the British Association of Dermatologists, as saying.
“If you’re worried about soreness on your hands when playing a games console, it might be sensible to give your hands a break from time to time, and don’t play excessively if your hands are prone to sweating,” Goad added.
A spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd, manufacturers of PlayStation, said: “We do not wish to belittle this research and will study the findings with interest.
This is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
Washington, Feb 22 (ANI): Women who have undergone sexual harassment at their office are likely to leave the organisation because of their inability to bring about a positive solution to the situation, a new study has revealed.
Conducted by research student Chana Levi and Prof. Eran Vigoda-Gadot, the study surveyed 192 women who work in the public sector in Israel.
“It is a matter of having no other outlet and not an act of control and power,” said the researchers.
The study was aimed to observe whether women who had been sexually harassed would tend to leave their place of work, develop behaviours of work neglect, or attempt to change the situation by means of taking particular action.
Also, the study tried to find out how much internal politics in an organization and the level of the employee’s belief in her own ability to change things (self-capability) affect the behavioural patterns of sexually harassed women.
The study found that the level of reported sexual harassment was rather low.
Also, the researchers found that in the organisations where the female employees reported more internal politics (i.e., where decisions are made based on personal and not business interests) there are also more cases of sexual harassment.
In the second part of the study, the researchers examined behavioural patterns of women who had experienced sexual harassment.
It revealed that harassed women tend to leave their jobs.
One things that can lead women to staying at their places of work despite sexual harassment is their level of self-capability- the more a woman believes in her own power to change the present reality the more she will prefer not to leave her workplace.
Also, the level of organizational politics also affects behavioural patterns- the more an organization is considered egalitarian, fair, and just, the more sexually harassed women preferred to put up a fight within the organization and vice versa.
The researchers said that the findings indicated that organizations that wish to combat the phenomenon of sexual harassment ought to set clear policies that minimize uncertainty and the risks that confront a female worker who wishes to make a complaint.
“There is a tendency to think that it is the stronger woman who believes in her capabilities who will choose to leave a place of work in which she experienced sexual harassment because she believes in her abilities and the possibility of finding another job. But the study’s findings showed that a worker who leaves an organization following sexual harassment does so out of inability to bring about a positive solution to the situation and not as an act based on strength and power,” concluded the researchers. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
Washington, Feb. 20 (ANI): Texan cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a suspicion that he ran a form of ponzi scheme through his Stanford International Bank.
Stanford, who is currently being investigated for a 6.4 billion pound fraud, could face criminal fraud charges, US law enforcement sources said.
Federal prosecutors are expected to probe whether his bank was involved in a Ponzi scheme, in which money from new investors who used to pay high returns to older investors, The Telegraph reports.
His six private planes worth 70 million pounds and 120feet-long yacht may also be seized.
A group of investors, who allege that SIB ‘fraudulently peddled’ certificates of deposit which promised rates of return far above those available from other banks, have filed a class action suit against Stanford for the return of their money.
“Now that the real estate and private equity markets are in freefall, many of those who purchased SIB’s certificates of deposit have recently been informed that they cannot redeem them,” an investor said.
They are seeking damages from SIB, which claims to have 30,000 clients in 131 countries.
Dennis Kucinich, the chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, criticized the SEC for taking such a long time for bringing Stanford under the scanner.
“The fact of the matter is there were smoke signals about this particular individual and his manner of investments for a couple of years in a number of places, including the US, and nothing was done,” Kucinich said.
Miami broker Charles Hazlett, a former employee of SIB said he tried to pass on his concerns to regulators six years ago. Hazlett was working with Stanford ’s banking empire when it was exploding in size. He raised questions about how the investment strategy worked, the company’s lack of detailed balance sheets and its use of a small and little-known accounting firm.
“I figured it was a matter of time before people figured things out,” he said.
For two days after the SEC brought up the case, financial investigators remained unaware about Stanford ’s whereabouts. Later, the FBI traced him in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in a house of his girlfriend, Andrea Stoelker’s relative.
The FBI agent handed him a 60-page complaint from the SEC, a federal court order freezing his assets and another order naming a receiver. Stanford vowed to fight the allegations, agreed to hand over his passport.
Stanford has hired the high-powered Washington attorney Brendan Sullivan to mount a defence against the alleged fraud. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 20 February 2009
New York, Feb.20 (ANI): A Brooklyn-based Kashmiri native was stopped 21 times by personnel of the New York Police Department (NYPD) in what’s supposed to be a random bag search.
According to the New York Daily News, he has sued the NYPD, claiming he was targeted because of his race.
In a lawsuit filed in a Brooklyn federal court Thursday, Jangir Sultan said the odds of him being stopped 21 times in a random sample are 165 million to one.
The NYPD began searching bags at subway stations after the bombings in London in July 2005. They’re supposed to stop passengers randomly, say every eighth or 10th person.
Sultan, 32, believes there’s something more sinister at play.
“The NYPD has deliberately structured the subway bag search program in a way that invites racial profiling,” the lawsuit charges.
Sultan, a hospital manager with a clean record, initially didn’t object to the searches. Even after the first few times he was stopped and had his bag searched, he assumed everyone was going through the same thing.
But after speaking to friends and colleagues, he learned that many of them had never been stopped.
He finally lost patience after the 13th time, filing complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Sultan’s lawsuit demands unspecified damages and oversight of the NYPD subway bag-search program. (ANI)
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