Sikh body offers Rs 5 lakh for shoe

NEW DELHI: The shoe hurled by journalist Jarnail Singh at home minister P Chidambaram today has become a valued symbol for Sikh organisations who are ready to cough up Rs.5 lakh for it. “In the land of Mahatma Gandhi which hails non-violence, we expected justice in favour of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. But after waiting for 25 years the decision comes out in favour of the main accused in the riots. So we think that the ‘shoe incident’ is justified,” said Babu Singh Dukhiya, president of National 1984 Victims Justice Association. “We are ready to buy the shoe for Rs.5 lakh,” he added. “Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, the main accused of the 1984 riots, should be banned from contesting the Lok Sabha elections. Otherwise, the entire Sikh community will surely stage protests during the elections,” said a riot victim, Amar Singh. “I was only 22 when the riots happened in which my father and brother were killed and the whole responsibility of my family came on my shoulders so I could not continue my studies. Now I am in 46 but the rage against the accused of the riots is still there,” said Sukh Chain Singh. “A Congress government was in power when the riots took place and now again under a Congress government the accused are poised to contest the Lok Sabha election on tickets of Congress,” said Puchka Singh, another victim. According to sources, Akali Dal (Man) has offered Singh a ticket to contest the upcoming general election from Punjab.

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US troops in Iraq head to Afghanistan

BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.

Cuba's world-famous cigar festival closes in Havana

Sunday, February 28, 2010 HAVANA: Hundreds of wealthy merchants and cigar aficionados from all parts of the world gathered in Havana this week to bid high stakes for humidors full of premium cigars. Cuba's annual Habanos festival ended on Friday night with an auction of ornate humidors of cedar and mahogany stacked with hand-rolled stogies that raised 800,000 euros ($1.09 million dollars). Habanos S.A. executives this month said cigar sales fell 8 percent to $360 million in 2009, so they have created the Julieta, a smaller, milder version of the Romeo y Julieta cigar, aimed specifically at female smokers. Women now make up only 5 to 10 percent of customers for Habanos. But even with the creation of the Julieta, Garcia said Habanos has only modest hopes for 2010 sales, due largely to a weak economy in Spain, the biggest market for Cuban cigars. The flavor of premium tobacco relies on the soil and climate in which it is grown. The western province of Pinar Del Rio, famous fo...

Snake bite deaths

Monday, July 06, 2009 COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government recorded some 33,000 snake bites in 2008, with most of the victims coming from remote villages.The Department of Government Information said in a statement that most of the snake bite cases could be fatal if neglected.The statement said snake bites are often neglected in Sri Lanka as victims do not seek treatment at hospitals where advanced medication is available. Instead, the victims rush to traditional type of treatment which could be a risk, reports Xinhua.Snake bites death at domestic level, outside hospitals, go unrecorded, said the statement.Most victims of snake bite are from the rural and remote villages where there is no electricity after dusk.Statistics show that Sri Lanka has over 90 species of snake with around 10 species possessing venom capable of killing a human being.In Sri Lanka the annual death rate due to snake bite envenoming is one of the highest in the world being 6 in 100,000 population.

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