Abdul Naser Madani gets interim bail for five days

Bangalore: The special trial court here on Thursday has alotted interim bail for five days to PDP chairman Abdul Naser Madani to attend his daughter's Nikah ceremony. The nikah would be held on March 10 at Kollam. He will be on bail till March 12 from Friday. 

Earlier the PDP leaders sought bail on a humanitarian basis. They requested the state government to intervene. Senior counsel P Usman representing People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Madani, filed an application seeking temporary bail from March 8 to 12, to enable his client to attend his daughter's marriage in Kollam on March 10 and also to visit his ailing father in the same place. Usman submitted an application that his client was seeking grant of temporary bail under 'full police escort'. 

On February 21, Madani returned to the central prison here after undergoing treatment at a wellness centre for more than six weeks. 

Madani has been lodged in jail since his arrest in August 2010 for his alleged role in the blasts conspiracy. 

Abdul Naser Madani gets interim bail for five days

Bangalore: The special trial court here on Thursday has alotted interim bail for five days to PDP chairman Abdul Naser Madani to attend his daughter's Nikah ceremony. The nikah would be held on March 10 at Kollam. He will be on bail till March 12 from Friday. 

Earlier the PDP leaders sought bail on a humanitarian basis. They requested the state government to intervene. Senior counsel P Usman representing People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Madani, filed an application seeking temporary bail from March 8 to 12, to enable his client to attend his daughter's marriage in Kollam on March 10 and also to visit his ailing father in the same place. Usman submitted an application that his client was seeking grant of temporary bail under 'full police escort'. 

On February 21, Madani returned to the central prison here after undergoing treatment at a wellness centre for more than six weeks. 

Madani has been lodged in jail since his arrest in August 2010 for his alleged role in the blasts conspiracy. 

Pope Benedict's official ring cancelled

Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI's gold papal ring, the symbol of his power used to officially seal documents and ensure their authenticity, has been cancelled, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said.

Known as the Fisherman's Ring, it was due to be destroyed with a special silver hammer after Benedict's resignation Feb 28, symbolising the end of his authority.

Earlier, Claudio Franchi, the goldsmith who crafted the ring said he hoped his work would not be destroyed once the pontiff stepped down.

'I hope the ring is preserved and exhibited. It is a jewel that has so much symbolic value,' Franchi said.

Benedict was the first pontiff since the 19th century to commission a Fisherman's Ring, which shows St. Peter fishing and bore the inscription 'Benedictus XVI', the pope's official title in Latin.

Pope Benedict's official ring cancelled

Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI's gold papal ring, the symbol of his power used to officially seal documents and ensure their authenticity, has been cancelled, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said.

Known as the Fisherman's Ring, it was due to be destroyed with a special silver hammer after Benedict's resignation Feb 28, symbolising the end of his authority.

Earlier, Claudio Franchi, the goldsmith who crafted the ring said he hoped his work would not be destroyed once the pontiff stepped down.

'I hope the ring is preserved and exhibited. It is a jewel that has so much symbolic value,' Franchi said.

Benedict was the first pontiff since the 19th century to commission a Fisherman's Ring, which shows St. Peter fishing and bore the inscription 'Benedictus XVI', the pope's official title in Latin.

Those who quit CPM after TP murder forms Janathipathya Vedi

Kozhikode: Those who quit CPM after TP Chandrasekharan's murder has formed the Janathipathya vedi movement. The first public function of the vedi, comprising cultural activists of Kozhikode, would be held on March 8 at Nalanda auditorium.

The programme would be organized as a democratic movement of men and women fighting atrocities against women on International Women's day. Renowned dancer Mallika Sarabhai will inaugurate the programme . After TP murder, a protest meet of party activists was held. The SFI, DYFI leaders who led the meet are lending support to this movement too. SFI former central committee member KS Bimal is chairman and A Muhammed Salim is the convener. Salim was subjected to disciplinary action when he acted as CPM Karuvattor local committee member. A number of activists who believed that the party has a hand in TP murder took part in the protest march and had collected Rs 20 lakh for TP's family. 

Those who quit CPM after TP murder forms Janathipathya Vedi

Kozhikode: Those who quit CPM after TP Chandrasekharan's murder has formed the Janathipathya vedi movement. The first public function of the vedi, comprising cultural activists of Kozhikode, would be held on March 8 at Nalanda auditorium.

The programme would be organized as a democratic movement of men and women fighting atrocities against women on International Women's day. Renowned dancer Mallika Sarabhai will inaugurate the programme . After TP murder, a protest meet of party activists was held. The SFI, DYFI leaders who led the meet are lending support to this movement too. SFI former central committee member KS Bimal is chairman and A Muhammed Salim is the convener. Salim was subjected to disciplinary action when he acted as CPM Karuvattor local committee member. A number of activists who believed that the party has a hand in TP murder took part in the protest march and had collected Rs 20 lakh for TP's family. 

Bangalore girl has higher IQ than Albert Einstein

London: A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in UK has stunned everyone after she scored an incredible 162 on her IQ test — even higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Neha Ramu, daughter of an Indian doctor couple, achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test — the highest score possible for her age.

The score puts the teen in the top one per cent of brightest people in the UK and means she is more intelligent than physicist Hawking and scientist Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.
'Neha scored 162 on the Cattell IIIB test, putting her within the top one per cent of people in the country,' a spokesman for British Mensa said. Neha's parents lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, 'The Telegraph' reported.
Neha had always performed well at school, but it was only when she took an entrance exam for her school, achieving a perfect score of 280/280, that they realised her potential. She took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, two years later, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.
'At first I did not really realise what she was capable of as she wasn't being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK in year three we didn't really understand the system here,' her mother Jayashree said.
'I am so proud of her. Although she's being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now this is just marvellous. I can't express the feeling,' she said. Neha plans to follow her parents' footsteps into a career in medicine. She has already set her sight on a place at Harvard after taking her SATs — the American equivalent of A-levels — and achieved a score of 740 out of 800 in a test designed for 18-year-olds.
A devoted Harry Potter fan and keen swimmer, Neha admitted to have found the Mensa test 'quite hard'. 'I'm really, really happy because I found the test quite hard and I wasn't really holding out much hope that I'd be a member of Mensa,' she said.
'We might have a little party or something sometime soon to celebrate. I haven't told my friends yet but I've told some of my family and they are all very happy for me,' said Neha. Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed when he was alive, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.

Bangalore girl has higher IQ than Albert Einstein

London: A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in UK has stunned everyone after she scored an incredible 162 on her IQ test — even higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Neha Ramu, daughter of an Indian doctor couple, achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test — the highest score possible for her age.

The score puts the teen in the top one per cent of brightest people in the UK and means she is more intelligent than physicist Hawking and scientist Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.
'Neha scored 162 on the Cattell IIIB test, putting her within the top one per cent of people in the country,' a spokesman for British Mensa said. Neha's parents lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, 'The Telegraph' reported.
Neha had always performed well at school, but it was only when she took an entrance exam for her school, achieving a perfect score of 280/280, that they realised her potential. She took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, two years later, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.
'At first I did not really realise what she was capable of as she wasn't being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK in year three we didn't really understand the system here,' her mother Jayashree said.
'I am so proud of her. Although she's being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now this is just marvellous. I can't express the feeling,' she said. Neha plans to follow her parents' footsteps into a career in medicine. She has already set her sight on a place at Harvard after taking her SATs — the American equivalent of A-levels — and achieved a score of 740 out of 800 in a test designed for 18-year-olds.
A devoted Harry Potter fan and keen swimmer, Neha admitted to have found the Mensa test 'quite hard'. 'I'm really, really happy because I found the test quite hard and I wasn't really holding out much hope that I'd be a member of Mensa,' she said.
'We might have a little party or something sometime soon to celebrate. I haven't told my friends yet but I've told some of my family and they are all very happy for me,' said Neha. Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed when he was alive, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.

Woman, her mother held for selling two month old baby

. Anchal: A woman and her mother were held for selling a two-month-old baby for money. Kulathoopuzha police on Wednesday held Sindhu, 30 from Mailamoodu and her mother Kunji. The neighbors who found Sindhu's baby missing for the last two days informed the police. Sindhu told police that they sold her baby for Rs 70,000 to a person from Irattupetta. Two women had acted as middlemen and they were given Rs 5000. Sindhu has another 8-year-old daughter. Police began a probe in Irattupetta

Woman, her mother held for selling two month old baby

. Anchal: A woman and her mother were held for selling a two-month-old baby for money. Kulathoopuzha police on Wednesday held Sindhu, 30 from Mailamoodu and her mother Kunji. The neighbors who found Sindhu's baby missing for the last two days informed the police. Sindhu told police that they sold her baby for Rs 70,000 to a person from Irattupetta. Two women had acted as middlemen and they were given Rs 5000. Sindhu has another 8-year-old daughter. Police began a probe in Irattupetta