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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday embarked on a visit to the US to attend the Nuclear Security Summit where he is expected to pitch for firm response to the challenges of proliferation and possibility of terrorists gaining access to nuclear material.
During the eight-day visit, Singh will also travel to Brazil to attend the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) and India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summits, where Iran's controversial nuclear programme and the impending UN sanctions would be among the key issues of discussions.
In the first leg of the tour, Singh will be in Washington for four days during which he will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit on April 12 and 13 and meet US President Barack Obama and some other world leaders.
The Summit, an initiative of Obama, will focus on dangers posed by clandestine proliferation and illicit trafficking of nuclear material and the possibility of terrorists acquiring atomic material.
Singh is expected to share India's apprehensions about terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The threat is greater in Pakistan, where nuclear material is believed to be not too safe.
Ahead of his visit, the Prime Minister said nuclear terrorism and proliferation of sensitive technologies are "legitimate concerns" which require "firm responses".
He emphasised the need for "highest standards of security" in the nuclear field to reinforce public faith in the benefit of atomic science.
"India welcomes President Obama's initiative to hold a Summit on Nuclear Security," said Singh, who will join leaders of 42 other countries in discussing ways to strengthen global initiatives for securing nuclear material and installations amid concerns of terrorists gaining access to these.
Singh said he expected the Summit to focus on nuclear terrorism and proliferation of sensitive nuclear materials and technologies.
"These are legitimate concerns which require firm responses," the Prime Minister said.
Noting that nuclear energy was poised to play a growing role in addressing the developmental challenges of the present times, he said, "This will be possible only if we, as individual nations, and as a global community ensure the highest standards of security which reinforce public faith in the benefits of nuclear science."
He pointed out that India was an important stakeholder in this global endeavour.
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Terrorism directed at USA-England match!Al Qaeda has put the American and British soccer teams directly in its cross hairs, circulating word online that the athletes are prime targets for an attack at the World Cup Games in South Africa in June, FOXNews.com reported Friday.
Classmates at the Irish immigrant's Massachusetts high school called Prince a "whore" and an "Irish slut," students said. They defaced her school photo with obscene drawings, sent her threatening text messages and whispered — or shouted — insults in school hallways. On Jan. 14, witnesses say, she was taunted by a group of classmates in the library and hit with a can of Red Bull thrown from a moving car. That afternoon, Prince went home and hanged herself with a scarf.
"The game … is broadcast live. The stadium is full of a Crusader audience while the sound of a blast shocks the stands and turns the stadium on its head. God willing, there will [be] dozens and hundreds of casualties. 50 grams alone are sufficient for such an operation," reads a post on the online magazine.
The South African Ministry of Police said it was aware of the threats, and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security said it was providing support as the host country beefs up security in preparation for the tournament.
"Diplomatic Security's Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistance has provided training to the South African Police Service in the run up to the 2010 World Cup," a Diplomatic Security official said in a statement to FoxNews.com.
The jihadist article said al Qaeda will focus on striking countries taking part in the "Zionist-Crusader campaign on Islam," and it specifically mentioned the American, British, Nigerian, Slovenian, French, German and Italian teams as targets. The jihadist author, Ubada bin Al-Samit, said nothing could be done to prevent the attack.
South African Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said his force has been preparing for any potential threats since 2004.
Earlier Friday, FIFA Secretary general Jerome Valcke commented on an online magazine article that said "how beautiful" it would be if a bomb exploded at the U.S.-England game.
The comments appeared on a militant online magazine called "Yearners for Paradise," however the author said he is not a spokesman for al-Qaida.
The divorce and agreement papers, which Shoaib signed April 7, have the name of his late father as Malik Saleem Hussain while the invitation for the April 15 wedding reception carries the name of his father as Malik Faqeer Hussain, the documents show.
According to legal experts, Shoaib could face legal action if Ayesha's family files a case against him on charges of furnishing false information.
The wrong name given in divorce certificate and the agreement signed on Rs 100 stamp paper could be yet another attempt by Shoaib to show that he did not marry Ayesha, they said.
The former Pakistani skipper divorced Ayesha on Wednesday after she filed a police case against him for cheating. Sania's family members and some community elders convinced him to end the row through divorce.
It was immediately not known if Ayesha's family would again approach the police against Shoaib.
The Pakistani star is still caught in a legal mesh as the police have not yet returned his passport which was seized about a week ago.
Though Ayesha has informed the police that she was withdrawing her complaint, Shoaib would get back his passport only after completing legal formalities.
With police yet to return Shoaib's passport, the qazi expressed his inability to perform the 'nikah', which was scheduled to take place Friday evening.
Qazis in Hyderabad do not perform marriages of foreigners without verifying the passport and no-objection certificates from their respective governments.
Sources said the nikah would now be possible any day before April 15, the day when Sania's family has planned to host a wedding reception at the Taj Krishna hotel here.
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The last few months of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince's life were filled with unrelenting torment, according to reports by fellow students.
Classmates at the Irish immigrant's Massachusetts high school called Prince a "whore" and an "Irish slut," students said. They defaced her school photo with obscene drawings, sent her threatening text messages and whispered — or shouted — insults in school hallways. On Jan. 14, witnesses say, she was taunted by a group of classmates in the library and hit with a can of Red Bull thrown from a moving car. That afternoon, Prince went home and hanged herself with a scarf.
Nine students have now been charged with harassment and other bullying-related crimes, spurring national debate about the role of the justice system and the culpability of the school administration. But Prince's case raises another, more elemental question: Why are kids so cruel?
Beginnings of bullying research
Research into bullying didn't start until the 1970s, when psychologist Dan Olweus began to study the phenomenon in Norwegian schoolchildren. In fact, much of the study was triggered by the suicides of several young victims of bullying, said René Veenstra, a sociologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Since then, decades of research have shown that the power differential between bullies and victims is a crucial component of the interaction.
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Despite their aggressive behavior, bullies also want affection, Veenstra said. His work has shown that bullies care about the approval of their own in-group, so they strategically pick victims they know few other classmates will defend.
Other researchers have found evidence that kids who are already socially awkward are more vulnerable to bullies. But there's no one thing that makes a child a target.
"There's actually no good reason," said Young Shin Kim, a professor at the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine. "One day, they just don't like a kid because that kid will wear pink, and the next day they might not like other kids because they're wearing blue, or they're tall, or they're small, or they wear glasses. ... It's just not really, systemically, that there's some kind of reason or motivation. It's more like a cultural thing."
A recent study found gay and lesbian teens get bullied two to three times more than their heterosexual peers.
A culture of bystanders
For some kids, bullying behavior is just the tip of the iceberg, Kim said. These children have other problems with aggression and control and may be abuse victims themselves. But there are also many otherwise well-adjusted children who just "think it's a cool thing to do," she said.
Indeed, 85 percent of bullying cases happen for the benefit of an audience, Veenstra said. Bullies want their behavior to be noticed. That means the reactions of bystanders is another essential piece of the bullying puzzle.
"There are often defenders to the victims, but there are certainly more bystanders," Veenstra said. Other children have a difficult time intervening without the support of teachers and authority figures, who are sometimes too quick to dismiss bullying. And adults don't always set good examples. Take driving: Grown-ups often tailgate slow drivers in an effort to intimidate them, Kim said. That's a page right out of the bully handbook.
When it comes to bullying, Phoebe Prince's case was almost textbook. She was a new girl, different from her classmates, who dared to date a popular upperclassman, which allegedly drew the wrath of other popular kids who wanted to put her in her place. Bullying is often used to maintain the social pecking order, Veenstra said.
And while suicides by victims are rare, bullying does increase suicide risk. It can also cause poor school performance, depression and low self-esteem that persists for years.
Bullies, too, fall victim to their own behavior. They have higher risks of delinquency, substance abuse and psychological problems. One study of Korean schoolchildren found that all female students involved in bullying (whether as bully, victim or both) had higher rates of suicidal thoughts and behavior.
"Bullying experience is not something that you overcome without consequences," Kim said.
Bullying is also not inevitable. Anti-bullying programs work, researchers say. The Scandinavian countries, which implemented widespread anti-bullying curricula in the 1970s and '80s, now have some of the lowest bullying rates worldwide.
The key is that anti-bullying messages must be consistent and widespread, says Rosalind Wiseman, author of "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World" (Three Rivers Press, 2003) and creator of the anti-bullying curriculum "Owning Up."
"Please don't waste anybody's time by doing a 45-minute bullying assembly, and then putting on some piece of paper that you have a zero-tolerance policy for bullying," Wiseman said. For the message to take, she said, teachers must be trained to respond to bullying on a daily basis, and the culture of the school must reinforce that bullying is not acceptable.
In the end, Kim said, one of the worst mistakes adults can make is to shrug off blame on the younger generation.
"We grown-ups have to be much more active, proactive and responsible and do something about it," she said. "It's not kids' problem. It's our problem."
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Sat, Apr 10 04:43 AM
It has taken death for the wheels of justice to finally begin moving in the case of AMU reader Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras. Two days after he was found dead at his rented house, the Aligarh police this evening lodged an FIR against four AMU officials and three mediapersons, one of them unidentified, who had allegedly forced their way into his house, shot his nude photos with another man, and created the controversy which led to his public humiliation and suspension by university authorities.
The FIR was filed on the orders of a local court which Siras moved on March 15 after the police took no action on his complaint. CJM Shyam Lal Kori passed the order on April 5, the last day Siras was seen alive.
In his application, Siras had said that on February 8, at around 6.30 pm, when he and a friend were in his bedroom, three men claiming to be reporters forcibly broke in with cameras, said they were responding to a complaint made by neighbours and threatened to publish his photographs.
After a few minutes, Siras alleged, four AMU professors entered, had a conversation with the three intruders and they left together.
Those named in the FIR are AMU Proctor Prof Zubair Khan; PRO Prof Rahat Abrar; Deputy Proctor Fareed Ahmed Khan and Media Adviser N A K Dhurani. The other accused are Syed Ali Murtaza and Aashu, both local mediapersons, and a third man who accompanied them. They have been booked for wrongful confinement, assault and use of criminal force, trespass, criminal intimidation, and conspiracy.
Sat, Apr 10 04:43 AM
Two Army jawans were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman in Pune. This is the second case in a week.
Police said Rajnishsingh Sureshchandra (26) and Sundarsingh Mahipalsingh (30), both attached to the 17 Rajaputana Rifles, were arrested after the woman filed a complaint with the Sangvi police that she was raped in an open area on defence land on Wednesday. The duo was produced in Pimpri court on Friday and remanded in police custody till April 15.
The complaint said the two approached the woman around 9.30 pm on Wednesday when she was talking to her boyfriend in Sangvi. They took her to the defence land and raped her after pushing her friend into a pit, police said. Assistant Commissioner of Police Vishnu Mane said after raping the woman, the soldiers took her mobile number and asked her to come to Swaraj Garden in the evening. It was then that she approached the police.
Sat, Apr 10 02:15 PM
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The shadow of the gun, its impact on society and gender injustice are creeping into contemporary women's literature in Pakistan, feels Lahore-based writer, critic and journalist Muneeza Shamsie.
'It is boom time for English writing in Pakistan. New writers are talking about changes and tackling urban realities like violence, terror and gender injustice in the society,' Shamsie, a member of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 jury, told IANS in an interview here.
The writer was in the Indian capital to promote Commonwealth literature and interface with common readers and schoolchildren.
Citing young writer Uzma Aslam Khan's book 'Trespassing' as an example of 'post-9/11 literature of angst and social metamorphosis' originating from Pakistan, she said Khan in her book has 'explored the growth of violence and the brutalisation of society'.
'Uzma visits the dark alleys of Karachi to investigate how the sub-class of violence was influencing the country's seamy underbelly,' Shamsie said.
Analysing the reasons for the explosion of creativity and culture in Pakistan, the writer said, 'I think it was difficult for creativity to flourish in the totalitarian regime during General Zia's reign. But society is freer now. The old political structures have gone.'
She said after reading her daughter and acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie's books, what hit her was the 'amount of violence they loaded'.
'And I realised that their generation had grown up with it. Several women writers in Pakistan are exploring the ramifications of terrorism and violence in society,' said Shamsie, who has translated and compiled three anthologies of Urdu writing in English.
She said the current genre of women writers in Pakistan treat 'their subjects from the perspective of their gender and are aware of issues pertaining to their sex in the country's civil society'.
'They do not always portray women as victims as they are generally portrayed,' Shamsie said.
Using 'Geometry of God' by Uzma, as yet another instance, Shamsie said: 'Feminist writers in Pakistan were also challenging the conventional roles played by women in society.
'The protagonist in 'Geometry of God', set in the 1980s, is a palaeontologist who functions in a male setup. The writer tries to capture her struggle as the sole woman palaeontologist in the country,' she said.
Daughter Kamila, in her magically-realistic novel, 'Burnt Shadows', travels from Nagasaki in 1945 to a prison cell in US in a story of love, betrayal and violence.
'Kamila's protagonist, a Japanese woman, Hiroko Tanaka, who is a magical figure with three bird shaped burns on her back -- a reminder of the atomic holocaust of Nagasaki --straddles the decades and locations in a world where old conflicts are replaced by new wars,' Shamsie said.
The book is reflective of the new-age immigrant literature that 'multiculturalism' in Pakistan is growing.
The writer, who contributes to leading dailies in Pakistan, said 'the freeing of Pakistan's society has also seen the birth of a large body of Urdu protest poetry which has reached out to a wide audience'.
Shamsie belongs to the 20th century feminist writers in Pakistan whose cultural grounding was bi-lingual. She grew up in London and returned to the country as a 19-year-old.
'The restrictions initially stifled me. I was a very English girl unfamiliar with the traditional Islamic way of life. Hence, I took to South Asian literature, which chronicled experiences that had some relationship to my life. I started off with Attiya Hussain and Ahmed Ali because she was my aunt and later read authors like Nayantara Sehgal and R.K. Narayan. Writing gave me a great sense of freedom,' Shamsie said.
The writer is currently working on two volumes -- Oxford Companion To Literature of Pakistan in English and a 'History of Pakistani English Literature since 1947'.
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- S.African white supremacist buried amid angerReuters - Fri, Apr 9
Murdered white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche was buried on Friday by thousands of followers flaunting the symbols of apartheid after a killing that worsened South Africa's racial strains.
- SPECIAL REPORT - Southern Sudan: oil boom to bust-up?Reuters - Fri, Apr 9
With southern Sudan stumbling towards independence next year, the Chinese oil workers in Africa's biggest country are bracing for trouble.
- Krishna satisfied with talks with his Chinese counterpartANI - Fri, Apr 9
Speaking to reporters onboard, Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna on Thursday said that he was satisfied with talks with his Chinese counterpart and added that Beijing understands India's desire to take on a greater role in global development and the restructuring of the UN.
- Thousands mourn South African white supremacistReuters - Fri, Apr 9
Thousands of followers of the murdered South African white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche, many wearing combat fatigues, thronged to his funeral on Friday as racial tensions ran high.
US
- Pope Benedict "expressed concern" at defrocking California priest over molestationANI - 01:10 PM
Washington, Apr 10(ANI): Newly surfaced public documents have revealed that the current Pope Benedict XVI, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was reluctant in the 1980s to defrock a California priest sentenced to probation for molesting young boys.
- No modification to Obama-Karzai meeting: White HouseANI - 12:30 PM
Washington, Apr 10(ANI): A top advisor to United States President Barack Obama has said that the scheduled meeting between the President with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai will take place on May 12.
- Missing W.Virginia miners found dead, blast toll at 29Reuters - 11:35 AM
Four missing West Virginia coal miners were found dead early on Saturday, nearly five days after an explosion killed 25 others in the worst U.S. mining disaster in nearly four decades.
- Obama, Singh to meet for bilateral talksIE - 10:28 AM
Looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday, US President Barack Obama would be discussing with the visiting Indian leader, among other issues, the upcoming Strategic Dialogue between the two countries, nuclear security and Afghanistan.
- Mexico seizes 80 tonnes of drug-making chemicalsIANS - 09:31 AM
Mexico City, April 10 (IANS/EFE) Police in Mexico have seized 80 tonnes of chemicals used to manufacture synthetic drugs from a boat coming from Shanghai.
Europe
- Polish President among 87 killed in plane crash in RussiaIE - 02:10 PM
Polish President Lech Kaczynski was among 87 people killed when a plane carrying them crashed in dense fog in southwestern Russian region of Smolensk on Saturday.
- Polish president dies in air crashIANS - 02:07 PM
Warsaw, April 10 (IANS) Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were killed with some 130 people when their plane crashed Saturday while preparing to land in Russia in foggy weather, officials said.
- Polish president's plane crashesIANS - 01:28 PM
Warsaw, April 10 (IANS) A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 87 people crashed early Saturday in Russia, officials said.
- Pope ready to meet sex abuse victimsIANS - 11:54 AM
Vatican City, April 10 (IANS/AKI) Pope Benedict XVI is ready to meet the victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests and bishops, the Vatican has said.
- Berlusconi 'eyes Tuscan estate after paparazzi problems in Sardinia'ANI - 11:15 AM
London, Apr 10 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is planning to buy a 19-million-pound country estate in Tuscany after becoming tired of his current holiday retreat, a villa on Sardinia's exclusive Costa Smeralda, which has become over-run by photographers.
Middle-East
- Fraud warnings intensify on eve of Sudan electionsReuters - 02:01 PM
Activists warned on Saturday on the eve of Sudan's historic elections of widespread misdeeds threatening to mar a vote that had been hoped would give Sudan new democratic legitimacy and help end decades of conflict.
- Briefly WorldIE - 04:43 AM
Iran unveils advanced centrifuge machines TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a third generation of domestically built centrifuges on Friday as the Islamic Republic accelerates a uranium enrichment programme that has alarmed world powers fearful of the nuclear programme's aims.
- Iran may take military action in self-defenceIANS - Fri, Apr 9
Tehran, April 9 (IANS) Iran is ready to take military action in self-defence, Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has said in response to the US plan that 'all options' are open in dealing with Tehran, a media report said Friday.
- Al Qaeda threatens to attack World Cup Football finalsIANS - Fri, Apr 9
Algiers, April 9 (IANS/AKI) Al-Qaeda's North African branch has threatened to attack the World Cup Football finals in South Africa which start in June.
- Pakistan Army's biggest war game begins SaturdayIANS - Fri, Apr 9
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) The Pakistan Army will Saturday begin its biggest field exercise, involving 20,000 personnel, to validate the concept of a new defensive doctrine for countering conventional threats.
International
- Rajapaksa's coalition wins election amid lowest voter turnoutHT - 12:40 PM
The ruling coalition led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a landslide victory in Thursday?s general election which recorded the lowest turnout in the history of Sri Lanka?s Parliamentary elections.
- Oz men turn to libido-lowering drugs to avoid sex-related crimesANI - 12:30 PM
Sydney, April 10(ANI): Australian men with high sex drives are using testosterone-lowering drugs in order to avoid committing sex related crimes.
- Deadlock over PoK judge to end amicably?HT - 10:50 AM
There are hopes that the ongoing judicial crisis in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, called Azad Kashmir (AJK) by Pakistan, will be resolved soon with politicians warning that India ?can take advantage of the situation.?
- Landslide victory for ruling party in LankaHT - 10:50 AM
The ruling coalition led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a landslide victory in Thursday?s general election which recorded the lowest turnout in the history of Sri Lanka?s Parliamentary elections.
- More bodies pulled from Rio mudslide; 205 deadReuters - 06:44 AM
Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a mudslide that buried more than 100 people after the heaviest rains in four decades.
Asia
- N.Korea denies involved in South ship sinking - reportReuters - 01:59 PM
North Korea has denied involvement in the sinking of a South Korean navy ship that broke in half after an explosion last month, leaving 44 sailors still missing, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
- Kyrgyzstan's head reveals overthrown President left only 80 million dollars in budgetANI - 01:45 PM
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Apr 10(ANI): The head of Kyrgyzstan's new interim government, Roza Otunbayeva, has revealed that her country was broke and said former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev left only 80 million dollars in the budget.
- Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok baseReuters - 01:20 PM
Scores of Thai anti-government protesters tried to force their way into an army base in Bangkok on Saturday but were repelled by water cannon, as their leaders vowed to carry on their fight for new elections.
- Polish plane crashes in Russia, 87 deadReuters - 01:18 PM
Eighty-seven people died when a plane flying from Warsaw crashed near its intended destination in the Russian city of Smolensk, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, citing the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
- Afghan officials slam Pak's 'double game' to derail peace talks with TalibanANI - 01:10 PM
Kabul, Apr.10 (ANI): Senior Afghan officials have criticised Pakistan for arresting the Taliban's second-in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, saying the step has proved 'counterproductive' and derailed the process of securing peace talks with the extremists.
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