Abu Dhabi, March 31 (IANS/WAM) At least 35 tonnes of tobacco has been seized from an unlicensed shop in Abu Dhabi, a top official said Thursday. Abu Dhabi municipality officials made the seizure at a tyre shop.
London, March 31 – Veteran actor Sean Penn has been approached to play the lead role of a mobster in director Ruben Fleischer’s new film ‘Gangster Squad’. The actor will play Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen.
Mumbai, March 31 – Sri Lanka vice captain Mahela Jayawardene wants the sub-continental teams to wait till the next edition of the World Cup before claiming that there is a power shift in cricket. He said India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka may have dominated the 2011 World Cup by entering the semifinals, but it is too early to think their dominance is real.
Mumbai, March 31 – Simon Taufel of Australia and Aleem Dar of Pakistan will officiate in the 2011 World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium here Saturday. Taufel was the on-field umpire for the India-Pakistan semifinal Wednesday while Dar officiated at Tuesday’s first semifinal between Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
Bhubaneswar, March 31 – Fish production in the world famous Chilika Lake in Orissa is expected to cross 12,000 tonnes this fiscal, a senior official said Thursday. Chief executive officer of the Chilika Development Authority Ajit Patnaik said fish production had declined rapidly in the early eighties following ecological degradation of the lake.
New Delhi, March 31 – Five women from Uzbekistan in their early 20s were arrested in south Delhi for prostitution, police said Thursday. On a tip off, police laid a trap near Udai Park by sending a decoy customer to a pimp, also from Uzbekistan, who said she charged Rs.30,000-Rs.50,000 for each woman.
New Delhi, March 31 – Indologist and heritage crusader Johan Frederik ‘Frits’ Staal, a driving force behind the preservation of the world’s oldest surviving Vedic ritual Athirathram, will return to Kerala’s Panjal village after 35 years on April 4 to witness the Athirathram festival. Staal, emeritus professor of Philosophy and South & Southeast Asian studies at the University of Berkeley in California, carried the festival to the world when he documented the ritual of Athirathram in his path-breaking treatise — ‘Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar’ in 1975, a statement issued by the Varthathe Trust said.
Bangalore, March 31 – The government will not allow education to be privatised as institutions have to serve a societal purpose, but it was not against ‘private participation’ in the education sector, union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday. ‘I think privatisation is a very dirty word.
Srinagar, March 31 – An activist of the ruling National Conference (NC) was shot dead in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said Thursday, adding the killers had been identified as Hizbul Mujahideen militants. Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat, the NC’s block president, was shot dead at his home in in Pinglish village late Wednesday, and his wife Haseena critically injured.
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