Sama Mehta an eight years old girl has been died on saturday & four others of her family were taken ill after consuming chicken at Rampurhat block in Birbhum district,which was the worst affected in the first wave of bird-flu attack in January.
However, officilas of the district health department & animal resource development denied that the girl’s death had anything to do with bird-flu, claiming that she died of food poisoning.
An official said that they were suffering from dysentery & ….

Neil Aspinall who was a long time friend & business associate of the Beatles, has died on Monday at the age of 66. The band members said in a statement on Monday that they have “the fondest memories of a great man”.
Aspinall stepped down last year as chief executive of Apple Corps., which is the guardian of the Beatles’ commercial interests.

The Great Khali defeated Hardcore Holly via pinfall at WWE RAW on Monday at The Colonial Center in Columbia, S.C. 24 man battle royal has been booked for Wrestlemania 24. The winner gets a shot at the ECW title.Hardcore Holly tries getting a few punches in but the Great Khali’s big arms block everything. A couple of big elbows slow Hardcore Holly right down. The Great Khali with a nervehold. Hardcore Holly elbows ….

Fiona Mackeown, mother of Scarlett Keeling, who was murdered at the resort of Anjuna, Goa, on 18 February, feared threat to her life from drug mafia in Goa. She had got police protection on Tuesday.
An official of Police said, “We have provided her the police protection as she had communicated to us in writing that there is fear to her life from drug mafia”.

Sara Evans who had a very public & nasty divorce last year, is getting married again. She will marry former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker. An official said, “The couple had enjoyed their engagement & look forward to their upcoming nuptials”.
Sara Evans 37 years old was married to Craig Schleske & had three children. But the two split over charges of infidelity & cruelty. Jaya Barker has four children from a previous marriage.
Evans & Barker began dating before Thanksgiving ….

Rajbir Singh, ACP of Delhi Police special Operations Squad on Monday night was shot dead by a propery dealer on the city outskirts. The “encounter specialist” was murdered in Gurgaon.
A senior official of Gurgaon Police said that the shooting is believed to have taken place around 10:30 pm & they were informed about the incident by their counterparts in Gurgaon around Monday midnight. The official said that the property dealer was shot dead Singh over some monetary dispute.
The official said, ….

A multiple family members has been shot dead on Monday morning local time on Iowa City’s east side. Police is looking for a man named Steve Suppel in connection with the shootings, which happened on Barrington Road shortly after 7 a.m.
An official of Police said that the students & faculty at the University of Iowa received text & telephone messages warning that there was an active shooter in the Iowa City area. ….

A has been arrested for sending an e-mail threatening to blow up a suburban railway station in Mumbai. A 16-year-old student from Ahmedabad was held for sending threatning email of blast in train in Andheri on 18 March.
An official of Police said on Monday, “We narrowed down on the address from where the mail was sent by tracking the Internet Protocol (IP) address & arrested the boy on March 22″.
The threatning email was recieved by channel India TV on March ….

A number of Tibetans on Monday staged a protest in New Delhiy against alleged Chinese atrocities in Tibet. With black bands tied around their heads, the protestors observed “Black Day” by raising 15 black flags, symbolising 15 days of “brutal repression” by the Chinese in Tibet.
Voicing their anger against Chinese, the protestors blamed the Chinese for forcing the Tibetans to resort to protests.
An official said, “The way they oppressed the Tibetans ….

A journalist has been shot dead by his sister-in-law’s brother at Panki area in the district in Kanpur. Vinay, who was a reporter with a Delhi-based news organisation, had come to Allahabad to meet his brother & sister-in-law on Holi.
The trio, then went to Priya’s brother’s place, Ajay, at Panki where Vinay & Ajay got into an argument during which, in a fit of rage, Ajay allegedly shot Vinay. Ajay then admitted Vinay to K P M Hospital & ran ….

A Delhi Court on Monday announced life term for former Haryana cadre IPS officer R.K. Sharma & three others, who were convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. R.K. Sharma was also fined 20, 000 rs & 10,000 rs for three others.
Ravi Kant Sharma, a 1976-batch IPS officer, has been found guilty of conspiring with three others Pradeep Sharma, Sri Bhagwan & Satya Prakash to conspire to kill the Indian Express journalist on ….

At least 110 Tibetan protesters have been arrested in Kathmandu after they staged a demonstration in front of the United Nations office in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, on Monday.
An official said that Dozen protesting refugees were injured during a scuffle with the police. Tibetan refugees have been carrying out demonstrations in the Nepali capital against what they call brutal crackdown on pro-independence protesters in Tibet by the Chinese government.
National & international human rights groups have criticised the police action on the demonstration ….

Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police filed a chargesheet against the former BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya in the Mumbai Sessions Court on March 26.
An official said that the EOW has informed the BCCI that they have uncovered evidence which suggests that Dalmiya misappropriated funds to the tune of Rs 2.9 crore during the 1996 World Cup.
The World Cup was jointly hosted by India, Sri Lanka & Pakistan. Under the Sharad Pawar ….

Gunmen, who is yet to be identified, ambushed a convoy of mine clearers in northern Afghanistan, killed five & injured seven in Kabul on Sunday.
The attackers stopped the convoy as the team was returning to its base camp in the northern province of Jawzjan on Sunday after mine clearing operations in a remote area.
It was the worst attack on the company in its 18 years of operations in Afghanistan. They opened fire into the first vehicle & shot at the ….

Bhutan took its final step to embrace democracy as voting on Monday began for the country’s National Assembly or lower house. An official of Election said, “This is a historic moment for all of us”.
A total of 865 polling stations have been set up across the country & 3,18,465 voters are on the electoral roll while electronic voting machines from India are being used for the polls.
Men in traditional “ghos” & women in “kiras” were seen lining up to cast ….

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck eastern Japan on Monday. There were no immediate reports of damage. The earthquake was 40 kilometres deep.
The epicentre of this earthquake was in the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima prefecture 200 kilometres from north of Tokyo.
The tremor was lightly felt in the capital, rattling buildings in the heart of the metropolis.
Japan experiences 20 percent of the world’s major earthquakes.

Emilio Navaira a Tejano singer was critically injured on Sunday after his band’s bus crashed near Houston. Navaira & his band, Rio, had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. The bus slammed into traffic barrels just after 5 a.m. local time on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, west of downtown Houston.
An official said that Navaira who is 45 years old was one of eight people on the bus who were injured in ….

Subhakanta Sahu also known as Pappu who is a popular Oriya actor was found hanging at a house at the old town area Bhubaneswar & is suspected to have committed suicide.
The body of the 27-year-old actor was found hanging on Saturday from the ceiling fan of a room, the doors of which were locked from inside. A senior official of Police said, “We suspect that he has committed suicide”. While police suspect it to be a case of suicide, his ….

Kimi Raikkonen won the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix (GP) on Sunday. He got the victory after finishing nearly 20 seconds ahead of BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica.
Robert Kubica came on second & McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen came in third. Lewis Hamilton, who won the Australian GP in Melbourne last week, finished on fifth postion. Toyota’s Jarno Trulli came in fourth & Nick Heidfeld of BMW Sauber finished sixth.
Hamilton now leads the driver’s championship with ….

Madhu Srivastav the MLA of BJP from Baghodia, Gujarat has been arrested by Vadodara Police on Sunday & after an hour he released on bail. He was arrested under Arms Act in Vadodara.
He was caught in camera while firing gunshots in air during the Holi celebrations. A case was registered against Madhu Srivastav for celebrated Holi in a unique way by firing from his licensed revolver in the open air located near the Baroda ….