Sydney, Jan 31 : Identifying sexual offenders may now get easier with the help of a new method that can detect fingerprints containing condom lubricants left behind. British researchers have developed a technique that could be used to prove suspects had contact with a condom, thus placing them at the scene of the crime, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. It may also be able to identify the unique ridge pattern of offenders’ fingerprints.
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Los Angeles, Jan 31 : In the wake of the current unrest in Egypt, the United States is reportedly preparing for an Egypt without President Hosni Mubarak, pushing the 82-year-old leader to meet the demand for greater political freedom. The Obama administration is not yet ready to abandon Mubarak, fearing that openly supporting calls for Mubarak’s removal would alarm other US allies in the region. The Los Angeles Times quoted current and former US government officials as saying that the days of autocratic government in Egypt are over with or without Mubarak.
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Kolkata, Jan 31 – RPG Group company Phillips Carbon Black Ltd (PCBL) will persist with its bid to acquire Germany-based Evonik Industry, world’s second largest carbon black maker, its top executive said here Monday. ‘Is it an opportunity (Evonik acquisition) that you should let go off?’ RPG group chairman Sanjiv Goenka said while talking to reporters here Monday. Two Indian carbon black players – Aditya Birla and Phillips Carbon Black – are vying to acquire the assets of Evonik Industries.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 : Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said the Karmapa Lama issue is already under investigation, and added that the concerned agencies are investigating the case in detail. “The issue is already under investigation by the government. Concerned agencies are inquiring the details.
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Pretoria, Jan 31 – Former President Nelson Mandela is ‘doing well’ three days after being discharged from hospital where he was admitted for an acute respiratory infection. Former Rivonia trialist and prisoner at Robben Island, Andrew Mlangeni has said the statesman was doing well when he paid him a visit at his Houghton home Sunday, Bua News reported. ‘Mandela is wonderful! He’s a terrific and terrible man, terrible in the sense that his spirits are high! He looks well and he was very happy to see us.
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Mysore, Jan 31 – Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Monday said some people were resorting to ‘black magic’ to eliminate him, a claim that immediately drew ridicule from the opposition parties. ‘I am not even sure of returning home after going to Vidhana Soudha (state secretariat building with offices for the chief minister and other ministers),’ Yeddyurappa told reporters in this city of palaces, about 140 km from Bangalore.
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Book: ‘The IPL Story – Cricket, Glamour and Big Money’; Author: Abhishek Dubey; Publisher: Pearson; Pages: 218; Price: Rs.199 At a time when book stores are flooded with compendiums on the 2011 World Cup, an intrepid television reporter has come up with a sizzling story on the Indian Premier League (IPL). Sleaze sells and on TV it grips the viewer more as an instant trial is conducted, judgment pronounced and executed in a matter of an hour. If the same story is narrated in a racy style, it can be unputdownable.
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Taraimar (Chhattisgarh), Jan 31 – Villagers broke down at a public hearing held here Monday while urging the Vedanta Resources officials to ‘kill us now rather than trying to acquire our land forcibly’. The mandatory public hearing was held by authorities to get the consent of the Taraimar villagers to grant environment clearance to mine the 70.12 million tonnes coal reserves in the region. The reserves are spread out over 1070 hectare in Taraimar area under Dharmajaygarh block in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district, some 300 km from the state capital Raipur.
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New Delhi, Jan.31 : In recent times while the world’s attention was on events in FATA and North Waziristan, another brutal battle has been raging in Karachi, which is a microcosm of Pakistan, even if the soul they say, is in the Punjabi Lahore. In one brutal two-day spell, 21 people were killed and several injured in the second week of January this year is a reflection of the ethnic suspicion and hatred. Both the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP) despite being in coalition with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government in Sindh blamed each other for this rise in the killings.
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