Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Prevent head injury




Always use safety  equipment during activities that could result in head injury. These include seat belts, bicycle or motorcycle helmets, and hard hats.

Obey traffic signals when riding a bicycle. Be predictable so that other drivers will be able to determine your course.

Be visible. Do NOT ride a bicycle at night unless you wear bright, reflective clothing and have proper headlamps and flashers.

Use age-appropriate car seats or boosters for babies and young children.

Make sure that children have a safe area in which to play.
Supervise children of any age.

Do NOT drink and drive, and do NOT allow yourself to be driven by someone whom you know or suspect has been drinking alcohol or is otherwise impaired.

Never keep conversing on mobile phone while driving, whether four wheel or two wheel





Indian PM urges developing countries to stand united for IMF overhauls


BEIJING,May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is urging developing countries to stand united, in order to foster reforms at the IMF, and other Bretton-Woods institutions. He adds that this process is not a "one-shot operation."
He said, "The reform of global institutions, and that includes the Bretton Woods institutions, has been high on the agenda of developing countries for a long time. But we have also to recognize that international relations, beyond a point, our power relations, and that those who wield power do not wish to yield ground very easily.
So, I am not very well-informed about what is going on with regard to the successor, to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, but I do recognize that the struggle for the transformation of global institutions, including the Bretton Woods institutions, is not a one-shot operation. It is a long process, in which all the developing countries have to stand united."
(Source: CNTV)

France's Lagarde seeks support for IMF candidacy in Brazil



2011-05-31 09:08:47

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30 (Xinhua) -- France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde met on Monday with her Brazilian counterpart Guido Mantega to "explain my candidacy and to listen what the Brazilian authorities expect from the Fund and its directorship."
Lagarde is visiting several emerging countries in search of support for her candidacy as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She will travel to China, India, and countries in the Middle East.
The minister said she is committed to the reforms foreseen for the IMF, which would give emerging countries like Brazil more participation in the decisions. According to her, the Fund must represent all its members.
"The IMF does not belong to anyone in particular, but to all its members," she said. "It is important that a great emerging country such as Brazil is well-represented."
Mantega said Brazil will hear all candidates to the position before deciding who to support. Another candidate, Mexican Central Bank governor Agustin Carstens, is expected to visit Brazil later in the week.
The final decision on the IMF directorship will be made by June 30. Former head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned from the position after being charged with sexual assault against a hotel maid in the United States.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/31/c_13902556.htm

63 killed in police raids on anti-gov't protesters in S Yemen: doctors





English.news.cn   2011-05-31 09:00:45

SANAA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces overnight Monday in Yemen's southern province of Taiz rose to at least 63, doctors told Xinhua.
Up to 800 others were injured and dozens of them with gunshot injuries were still in critical conditions, doctors said.
Witnesses said police forces and armed government backers used bulldozers to clear the remaining tents after the forces used live ammunition, tear gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters from their sit-in area in downtown Taiz.
Taiz, the second largest city located about 200 km south of the capital Sanaa, has been the scene of almost daily clashes between police and protesters demanding immediate end to the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Meanwhile, human rights activists said several bodies of physically handicapped protesters were found after they were trapped in the fire which was set on the tents by police and government supporters.
The scattered protesters gathered again on Monday evening and tried to march forward their sit-in area dubbed Freedom Square, but police forces dispersed them again, killing at least one protester.
Police forces then occupied the protest sit-in square, said the witnesses.
Human rights activists also said security forces arrested dozens of protesters overnight.
Since February, daily clashes between police forces and anti-government protesters broke out in Yemen's major cities.
The impoverished Arab country is trying to cement a ceasefire to end a recent tribe rebellion in the capital Sanaa that killed at least 127 people, as government forces have been shelling militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing after the latter took over the southern troubled province of Abyan on Saturday.
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/31/c_13902440.htm

Delhi Cabinet to examine splitting of MCD



Posted on 30 May 2011 by admin
(File photo:Sheila Dikshit:Wikipedia)

New Delhi: Faced with stiff opposition from within Congress on splitting the MCD, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is likely to discuss with Cabinet tweaking the original proposal to placate those opposing the move.

There is indication that the government may go for trifurcation of the MCD instead of splitting it into five smaller bodies as decided by the Cabinet last month. The government may also reverse its decision to increase the number of wards to 408 from current 272.

The indication to review the original decision comes three days after Dikshit met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi during which she had strongly pushed for splitting the MCD ahead of next year’s municipal polls.

The Cabinet is expected to discuss making changes to the original decision as a cabinet decision can only be reversed or tweaked by the Cabinet, said officials.

Although Dikshit has been strongly advocating for splitting the MCD, DPCC president J P Aggarwal and several other leaders are opposing it tooth and nail saying majority in the party was not in favour of the proposal.

Sources said government was not going to fully reverse its original decision but may make some adjustments. They said the government may go for reserving 50 per cent seats for women from current 33 per cent even if number of wards is not increased.

Last month, the Cabinet had accepted recommendations of a high-level committee, headed by Health Minister A K Walia, which suggested splitting the civic body into five smaller municipalities. The committee had also suggested increasing the total number of wards from current 272 to around 408.

PTI
Source: Zee News

New sex scandal forces France to confront macho politics


30 MAY 2011 - 23H28  
AFP - Who will be next to fall? That's the question on many French lips after one of President Nicolas Sarkozy's ministers resigned over rape accusations amid heated debate over the chronic machismo of Paris politics.
"What if the Georges Tron affair were the first in a long series of aftershocks that will follow the earthquake on May 14 in the Sofitel in Times Square?" wondered Liberation newspaper in an op-ed article.
Tron, who was Sarkozy's civil service minister, resigned Sunday after a legal probe got under way into claims -- which he denies -- by two women that the foot massages he forced on them turned into sexual harassment and rape.
The resignation came two weeks after New York police arrested the International Monetary Fund's then chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges that he tried to rape an African chambermaid in his Sofitel hotel suite.
Strauss-Kahn's arrest shocked France and sparked anguished soul-searching about whether strict privacy laws and alleged media complicity let politicians, top businessmen and celebrities get away with unacceptable behaviour.
Now Tron's departure has sharpened the debate and sparked widespread speculation that more women are going to emerge to denounce sexually predatory politicians.
One of the women who accused Tron of sexual harassment and rape said last week she was encouraged to speak up after Strauss-Kahn's sensational arrest.
"When I see that a chambermaid was capable of taking on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I tell myself I don?t have the right to stay silent," said the woman, who was not identified by name.
The Journal du Dimanche newspaper wrote Sunday of a "before and an after DSK," as Strauss-Kahn is popularly known in France.
If sexism and macho behaviour is widespread across French society, then it is particularly concentrated in the world of politics, said Caroline Ressot of the Observatoire de la Parite, a government body that promotes sexual equality.
French political parties have traditionally been indulgent about the sexual behaviour of their members, she said.
"There is a certain number of elected representatives -- on both the left and the right -- who have been convicted of sexual aggression and who have not been expelled from their parties, for example," she told AFP.
Chantal Brunel, the head of the Observatoire and a member of parliament in Sarkozy's UMP party, said she herself was often subjected to sexually "inappropriate" comments from a male colleague at the French parliament, but she declined to elaborate.
Monday's Le Parisien newspaper however carried a report on one woman deputy -- whom it did not name -- who said she was regularly treated to remarks such as this one made just last week: "If you dress like that then don't be surprised if you get raped."
Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno has said she wears trousers when in parliament, where around 100 of the 577 deputies are women, because when she wore a skirt this sparked salacious remarks from male colleagues.
Socialist deputy Sandrine Mazetier said that at the National Assembly there "reigns a form of paternalism, an infantilization of women that I have never seen anywhere else."
Most commentators and feminist groups agree that male politicians got away with such behaviour because female politicians, like ordinary Frenchwomen, feared they would not be taken seriously if they complained.
"In France in 2010 there were 10,100 registered rapes. But it's estimated that only one rape victim in 10 will speak of her ordeal," said Brunel.
But that era may well be coming to an end, she noted.
"It's as though the sky has fallen down on the heads of men," she said, adding that "as regards violence towards women, the Strauss-Kahn affair changes a lot."
"Few men in France believed that the head of the IMF could end up in prison (while awaiting trial) for a case of sexual aggression," and this means that now there will be less tolerance "for men who cross the line," said Brunel.
On Monday the French media was agog with speculation that a new era might be dawning in France.
Liberation summed up the mood, saying in an editorial that the recent high-profile sex scandals could sound the death knell for the "everyday machismo, the male domination, the phallocracy" that characterises French politics.
"From now on, charges can be pressed and be judged legitimate. Even in France," it said.
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2G scam: Order reserved on Kanimozhi's bail plea, Karim Morani sent to jail


  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday reserved its order on bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar. 

Earlier, Cineyug Films Director Karim Morani , an accused in the 2G spectrum case, was on Monday arrested and taken into judicial custody after a Delhi  court rejected his bail plea. 

Special CBI Judge O P Saini refused the plea of Morani who is charged with facilitating the transaction of Rs 200 crore from DB Realty to Kalaignar TV, in which DMK MP Kanimozhi holds 20 per cent stake. 

The CBI had alleged that Morani took six crore for facilitating the Rs 200 crore transaction. 

The court did not accept the plea of the accused that he was entitled for bail as he was not arrested during the investigation of the case. 

Morani had filed his regular bail plea on May 24 after the court had denied anticipatory bail and directed him to appear before it. 

CBI, in its second chargesheet in the 2G case, had alleged that Swan Telecom and Dynamix Realty Promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka channeled Rs 200 crore to DMK-run Kalaignar TV through Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd and Morani's Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd. 

The court had earlier dismissed Morani's anticipatory bail plea on medical ground, saying that as per the May 19 reports received from the department of Cardiology and Neurosurgery of Mumbai's J J Hospital, his condition is "stable and normal". 

Opposing the bail plea of Morani, CBI had said all other accused, involved in the transaction of Rs 200 crore from DB Realty to Kalaignar TV, are already in judicial custody. 

Order reserved on bail of Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar 

Justice Ajit Bharihoke, after hearing detailed arguments on the bail applications of Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar, said the order on their pleas would be pronounced later. 

Senior advocate Altaf Ahmed, appearing for 43-year-old DMK MP and Sharad Kumar, contended that the transaction of Rs 200 crore from DB Group to Kalaignar TV was a valid loan transaction and their was nothing "dubious" about it. 

"All the documents are in the custody of CBI and hence there is no point in keeping us in jail," Ahmed said. 

Senior advocate and special public prosecutor U U Lalit opposed their bail pleas saying the accused have attempted to create "smoke screen" by projecting the bribe trail of Rs 200 crore as a loan transaction. 

"No contemporaneous documents were executed by any of the companies which were part of the money transaction. It was nothing but the transaction of the bribe amount," Lalit said. 

The court had earlier issued a notice to CBI on the bail pleas of both the accused and asked the probe agency to file a status report detailing the stage of investigation and the judicial proceedings in the case. 

Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar had approached the high court on May 23 after their bail applications were dismissed by a special CBI court on May 20.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Former Rajya Sabha VC and six-time MLA jumps to death



2011-05-29 22:30:00
Last Updated: 2011-05-29 22:53:49

Kolkata: Six-time CPI(M) legislator and former Rajya Sabha Vice-Chairman Mostafa Bin Quasem, who was suffering from acute depression and other ailments, today allegedly committed suicide by leaping to death from the fourth floor of the MLA hostel here.
"The MLA jumped from the fourth floor of Room 411 and fell on a tin shed. He is dead," police said.

A suicide note found on the 70-year-old MLA's body said he was taking the extreme step due to acute depression and a number of other ailments including kidney-related problems for some time, according to the police.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Industry and Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee visited the hostel and the hospital where the body was kept. Banerjee said that she could have helped Quasem in his treatment had she been informed, but he died before she could be introduced to him in the new Assembly.

She instructed authorities to hand over the body to the family after postmortem and other formalities tomorrow. The chief minister expressed her condolences to the bereaved family and asked the administration to accord him due honour and respect.

"If we receive any suggestion from the CPI(M), we will do the needful," Banerjee said.
Quasem was first elected to the West Bengal Assembly in 1977 from Baduria and Swarupnagar in the period between 1991-2006. He was recently elected from Basirhat North. The CPI-M leader, who was a MP of the Upper House from 1984 to 1990, was the Rajya Sabha Vice-Chairman from 1987 to 1988. Quasem is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Chatterjee said that there should be an inquiry on what led the CPI-M leader to his tragic end. Quasem was among the MLAs who had arrived here for the election of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker tomorrow. With Quasem's death, the number of CPI-M MLAs in the Assembly has gone down to 39 and that of the opposition Left Front to 61.

FBI ignored warnings on Headley's jihadist career



PRAVEEN SWAMI

Officials dismissed information from his wives that he was working with the Lashkar-e-Taiba
Federal Bureau of Investigation detectives disregarded multiple warnings that the Pakistani-American jihadist David Headley was working with the Lashkar-e-Taiba - two of which came from his own wives.
The FBI, intelligence sources have told The Hindu, instead chose to believe Headley's claims that he had only made contact with the jihadist group to further his work as a counter-narcotics informant.
FBI officials, the sources said, were long aware of Headley's links with jihadists in Pakistan's north-west, and even interviewed him for information in the weeks after 9/11.
But they believed Headley was working for the United States' Drug Enforcement Agency, which he developed a relationship with, after being arrested in 1988 for smuggling heroin from Pakistan.
In 1997 Headley was arrested by the DEA again, and this time secured his freedom by becoming a key informant. In a 1998 letter, prosecutors said he “helped the DEA infiltrate the very close-knit Pakistani narcotics dealing community in New York.”
He was still on probation when he travelled to Pakistan in 1999 for his arranged marriage with Lahore resident Shazia Geelani - setting off events which would lead to his second brush with the FBI.
Following a domestic violence incident in 2005, Ms. Geelani - with whom Headley has four children, Haider, Osama, Sumya and Hafsa - said her husband had trained with the Lashkar-e-Taiba. She told authorities that he often bragged of successfully deceiving the FBI.
Headley was briefly detained by police in New York on domestic violence charges, but not prosecuted. FBI detectives looked into Ms. Geelani's allegations, but decided no action was needed.

Later, in 2006, Headley ran into fresh trouble with police - and this time ended up spending eight days in custody at Lahore's Race Course police station. The arrest, a credible Pakistani media source told The Hindu, was made after a Lahore-based Moroccan medical student complained that Headley had reneged on a promise to marry her. Extra-marital sexual relations are a crime in Pakistan.
Bailed out by Ms. Geelani's father Javed Ahmed, Headley married Ms. Outhalla weeks later - though his first wife was never informed of their relationship.
In April 2007, Ms. Outhalla accompanied Headley to Mumbai. Less than a month later, Headley enjoyed a holiday in Dubai with Ms. Geelani.
Later though when Ms. Outhalla discovered that Headley was already married, she visited the U.S. embassy in Islamabad and informed them of his links to jihadists. “Indirectly,” she told The New York Times last year, “they told me to get lost.”
The United Kingdom's domestic intelligence service, MI5, finally sparked off action against Headley when it reported to the FBI that he had made contact with two jihadist suspects in the town of Derby.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2059953.ece

Monsoon arrives in Kerala



Thiruvananthapuram, May 29 : The monsoon has arrived inKerala. Heavy rains have been reported since Saturday night in the central and southern districts of the state, an official of the India Meteorological Department said.

Rains have also hit some parts of Tamil Nadu, south Bay ofBengal and south Andaman Sea, the official said Sunday.

Kumarakom, the pristine tourist destination in Kerala, has recorded the heaviest rainfall of 12 cm, he said.

An IMD report said that conditions were favourable for the advance of southwest monsoon over some more parts of the Arabian Sea, remaining parts of Kerala, some more parts of Tamil Nadu, south Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea and some parts of Karnataka during the next two-three days.

From 2005 onwards the IMD has been issuing forecast on the onset of monsoon over Kerala using an indigenously developed statistical model. The forecast based on this model during the last six years have been correct.
--IANS

TN nurses work amidst bombings in Yemen



 
 Pramila Krishnan 



Yemeni army officers lifted by anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen - AP/PTI

Hundreds of Tamil nurses are holed up in the military hospital at Sanna in strife-torn Yemen for over a week without proper food and water.
Worse still, there is constant fear of death as bullets and bombs keep flying around as the women are forced to duty for tending to the military personnel injured in the rebels’ attacks.
“We are facing death every second. A bullet missed my leg by a whisker. At least four or five shells hit our building. Many nurses have turned patients and there are no basic amenities,” said Anitha, 27, a native of Nagercoil, speaking to DC over phone.
Most of the nurses in the Yemeni hospitals are from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and a few other Indian states.
They have been recruited on a monthly salary of US$400 and comfortable quarters but now the situation has become terribly unstable due to the rebels’ violent campaign to unseat President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Protector of emigrants D. Jai Shankar in Chennai said he had received many SOS calls from the nurses stranded in Yemen.
27-year-old Ajitha, when she took the flight to Hajjah city in Yemen some nine months ago, nursed high hopes that the monthly salary of $400 promised for the nursing job in a hospital there would help her ailing father quickly repay his debt of Rs 5 lakh.
But as the rebels mounted violent campaign to unseat President Ali Abdullah Saleh in February, the life of Ajitha, and of hundreds of Indian nurses like her, turned into a nightmare as they were forced to work in harsh circumstances treating wounded government soldiers even as the militants bombarded the hospital and even their living quarters.
“The government forces kept shifting us from one place to another for safety. I moved four places in the last few days and even now, there are bullets and bombs flying all around. The rebels are firing at our building from across the road. I am not sure what will happen to me. A bullet missed my leg by a whisker,” Ajitha said in a phone interview from her hospital ward in Sanna city.
“The soldiers suddenly come and announce we must move to another safe place. We must pack up in minutes and run with them.”
Ajitha’s father Alagiya Nayagam, 57, said the family had lost hope of getting his daughter back safe and sound.
“We are shattered. We have no hope unless our government acts fast.” He needs her income from Yemen to treat his wife who is suffering from heart ailment and also to educate the youngest daughter.
“Many nurses from Yemen got in touch with us to say they are being forced to work in difficult conditions. They can get in touch with the 24-hour helpline in the Indian embassy,” D. Jai Shankar told DC in Chennai. “We can rescue the registered emigrants but it is tough to contact them.”

Obama uses own story to woo Europe, attract voters


Soldiers march past US President Barack Obama as he takes part in an arrival ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland. - AP Photo


WASHINGTON:
 First he was Irish, then he was British, and now he’s Polish, too.

US President Barack Obama, during a week traveling through Europe, used his personal story to woo a continent some feel he has neglected, while simultaneously reaching out to important political constituencies back home.

From Ireland to Britain to Poland, Obama – the son of a Kenyan father and a Kansas mother – discovered and exploited his European roots, delighting foreign crowds and inking images that could turn up in presidential campaign commercials next year.
“My name is Barack Obama – of the Moneygall Obamas – and I’ve come home to find the apostrophe that we lost along the way,” Obama, joking about the “Irish” spelling of his name, told a crowd of some 25,000 in Dublin, hours after visiting the town where his great-great-great grandfather once lived.

The crowd loved it, and references to his roots continued at his next stop in London.
“I bring warm greetings from tens of millions of Americans who claim British ancestry, including me, through my mother’s family,” he told Queen Elizabeth II.
In Warsaw he talked about his hometown of Chicago and adopted one of its more prominent ethnic groups as his own.

“If you live in Chicago and you haven’t become a little bit Polish, then something’s wrong with you,” he said at a press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The result? The United States’ first African-American president connected himself personally to three of the four European countries he visited, burnishing his credentials on the continent after an emphasis on Asia in the first years of his administration sparked concern that US focus had shifted dramatically eastward.

Heather Conley, a Europe expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the visit showed Obama could reach out to the “Atlantic Community” in the West and the Asia Pacific region in the East at the same time.
“The visit accomplishes its mission,” she said. “He was certainly clarifying that his personal narrative goes in both directions.”

Few Accomplishments, lots of symbolism
That accomplishment may be the main one on a trip that was heavy on imagery but light on substance.

In France – the one country where he did not claim an ancestral or cultural bond – Obama met with fellow leaders from the Group of Eight industrial nations, all of which adopted a unified position that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi must go.
But that was a rare foreign policy achievement on an otherwise largely ceremonial six-day tour.

White House advisers believe that the images of Obama dining with the British queen and meeting with international leaders will quell lingering criticism from opponents that he is a lightweight on the world stage.

Public compliments from British Prime Minister David Cameron about the successful US operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden also reinforced Obama’s political strength in the area of national security.

With potential Republican rivals competing to establish their own presidential qualifications, Obama’s trip also helped him appear above the domestic political fray.Creating enduring images for tens of millions of Irish Americans, a significant voting bloc, and US citizens of British and Polish decent was also a plus.

“The president’s political consultants got some great video for his 2012 TV ads,” said Larry Sabato, a politics professor at the University of Virginia. “The Irish stop was golden for the millions who trace their ancestry to Eire. The appealing scenes with the royals can be recycled.”

Political risks

But the trip was not a complete win in the imagery department. Deadly tornadoes in the US Midwest dominated domestic news coverage while Obama was away and some analysts said many Americans did not even realize he was gone.
The White House was aware of that problem. It scheduled a last-minute televised statement by Obama about the tornadoes on Tuesday morning in London so he could announce a Sunday trip to the affected region.

Shortly after speaking to the cameras, he left to spend the day at Buckingham Palace.
Still, while Americans and Obama’s political advisers fret about the state of the US economy, the president put in a plug for having space to focus on foreign policy such as the democratic upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa, which dominated talks in each of the countries he visited.

“Even at a time where I spend most of my day thinking about our economy and how to put folks back to work. I want the American people to understand we’ve got to leave room for us to continue our tradition of providing leadership when it comes to freedom, democracy, human rights,” he said in Poland.

Hyderabad was on 26/11 plotters radar


Monday, 30 May 2011

Hyderabad, May 30: The plotters of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and David Headley, who is a witness in the case against Tawwahur Rana being heard in a Chicago, US, court, had discussed Hyderabad along with other cities in the country as possible targets, sources said. After training with the LeT, Headley was asked to visit India by his handlers in Pakistan and on the possible itinerary were Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Nagpur, apart from Mumbai.
Sources in the Intelligence Bureau said Headley had disclosed to FBI that Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagarh — all three areas which did at first join the Indian Union — were on the list of the terrorists.
David Headley identified one of the voices in the terror tapes that Abu Al Qama, who took the name of Hyderabad. Abu Al Qama, based in Pakistan, handled the 26/11 terrorist Babar. Babar was asked to contact the Indian media and claim that he belonged to the so-called ‘Hyderabad Deccan Mujahideen’. Abu Al Qama asked Babar to identify himself as hailing from Toli Chowki in Hyderabad. State police said they have no information on Hyderabad being on Headley’s radar.
----Courtesy:Hyderabadcircle

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