ACB raids Gujarat Cong VP's residence in Godhra

Monday, May 1, 2006, 9:24 [IST]

Vadodara, May 1: Sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today raided the Godhra residence of former minister and Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) vice-president Chandrakant Raulji and claimed to have seized ill-gotten assets to the tune of Rs 2.72 crore.

The raid was carried out here last night by a team of Vadodara ACB sleuths at the Congress leader's residence at Bhavdi area in Godhra town, ACB sources said.

Mr Raulji was a minister of state for Public Works Department from 1994 to 1998 under the ministries of Chimanlal Patel and Shankarsinh Vaghela.

The raid was carried out on the basis of the complaint of one Sharad Shah filed way back in 1998. Details of the raids were awaited.

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Militants kill twenty-two villagers in Jammu

Monday, May 1, 2006,9:52 [IST]

Srinagar. May 1: Suspected militants today killed at least 22 villagers and seriously injured five others in remote villages of Panjdobi and Thava in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.Armed Lashkar-e-Toiba militants gathered the villagers outside the houses of the heads of Panjdobi and Thava hamlets in Udhayanpur belt of the district around 2 a.m and opened fire, killing 22 Hindus.An ex-serviceman, who escaped from the spot, later informed the police about the killings, said Inspector General of Police, Jammu, S P.....

Thousands march in U.S to stop Darfur killing

Monday, May 1, 2006,10:15 [IST]

Washington, May 1 : Several thousand Americans, led by religious leaders, entertainers and politicians, marched to urge the United States to halt ''genocide'' in Sudan's Darfur region.''Darfur deserves to live. We are its only hope,'' Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel told the crowd that converged on the National Mall in Washington, near the U S Capitol yesterday.Other speakers at the rally included Washington's Roman Catholic Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, Illinois Democratic Sen. Barak Obama and actor George Clooney, who.....

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Pak, Iran agree to go ahead with pipeline

Monday, May 1, 2006,10:25 [IST]

Islamabad, May 1: Both Pakistan and Iran have agreed to go ahead with a bilateral gas pipeline if India does not join the project to bring cheap Iranian gas to South Asia.At the conclusion a three-day technical talks between Pakistan and Iran yesterday, both the countries said the project will forge ahead despite US reservations.Pakistan Petroleum Secretary Ahmad Waqar, who headed his side at the talks told reporters here that Pakistan and Iran had reached an agreement on basic principles of a.....

Israeli troops kill woman in W.Bank raid

Monday, May 1, 2006,10:39 [IST]

TULKARM, West Bank, May 1: Israeli troops today killed a Palestinian woman during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and medical sources said.They said soldiers surrounded a house in the city of Tulkarm and called on its occupants to come out. They then opened fire, and some of the bullets penetrated a nearby home, fatally wounding Eitef Zalat, 45, witnesses and medics said.''She was hit in the head and taken to.....

Two Indians in Time's most influential list

Monday, May 1, 2006,10:42 [IST]

Washington, May 1: Two Indians, Nandan Nilekani, President of software giant Infosys and Vikram Akula, Founder of SKS Microfinance, figure in the Time magazine's list for 2006.Time describes Nilekani like this, "Seattle has Bill. Bangalore has Nandan, ", "One of the Indian engineer-entrepreneurs most responsible for creating the new reality that has produced this new Indian image is Nandan Nilekani,"SKS Microfinance provides venture capital to the poor. Akula has made SKS one of the fastest-growing microlenders, says the Magazine.OneIndia.....