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Gujarat police arrest Godhra train carnage accused

     Godhra (Gujarat): Gujarat police on Tuesday arrested a person said to have played a key role in the burning of a train carrying 59 Hindu pilgrims in Godhra in February 2002. Irfan Adbul Majid Kalandar alias Bhobho, a prime accused in the incident, was arrested this morning from the Satpol area of Godhra town, police said. Tuesday's arrest raises the total number of those apprehended to 107. Meanwhile, a special court in Ahmedabad will restart the hearing on a submission by the Public Prosecutor opposing the recommendations of the Central POTA Review Committee to withdraw terrorism charges in the Godhra train carnage case.

85 percent of new gas find recoverable, says Modi (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday said that 85 percent of the estimated 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf) recent gas find was commercially recoverable. State-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corp has made the country's biggest gas discovery -- 20 trillion cubic feet, worth 50 billion dollars off the southeast coast. The find was made in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin at an offshore deep sea well 6 kilometres off the Yanam Kakinada coast in Andhra Pradesh. "Let's hope for the best. Right now the reserve that we have, on studying its quality scientists have said that we can use more than 85 percent of it commercially. More than 85 percent," said Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. GSPC, which has grown from operating small fields in Gujarat into a major national oil and gas explorer- producer with 21 oil and gas blocks in six years, plans to invest 15 billion rupees for exploring the KG basin, where it is developing a block with Canada's Geoglobal resources and Jubilant Enpro. A visibly proud Modi said his corporation expects to begin commercial production as early as 2008 and will harness at least one tenth of the total reserves in the first year it self. "We have improved technology. We have consulted more scientists and we estimate that the gas we have found in 2005, we will be able to bring it to shore by 2007. We hope to commercially produce in two and half years so this is the kind of time frame with which we are moving forward," Modi said. "We feel that of the total amount that we have found...we are thinking that we can in the next 10 years explore it, so one- tenth of the total find will start production in beginning of 2008," he added. India's biggest gas find until now -- 14 trillion cubic feet -- is also in the KG basin, being developed by Reliance Industries and due to start producing by August, 2008.

Reliance Board meets for the first time after split (Go To Top)

     Mumbai: India's largest private conglomerate, Reliance Industries met on Tuesday under their new chairman Mukesh Ambani, their first meeting after a formal split last week. The Ambani brothers split the management of the business empire established by their late father, dividing control of a group with a vast retail shareholder base and revenues worth 23 billion dollars under the deal. The meeting, which began in Mumbai, is likely to discuss their future plans after the de-merger.

Chidambaram for selling of loss making units (Go To Top)

     New Delhi/Kolkata: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday, called for the closing and the shut down of loss making units, even as the Left allies raised storm over the sale of the blue-chip state firm, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL). The Left parties, who provide crucial support to the Manmohan Singh led UPA government, is furious at the Centre's decision to sell a further 10 percent stake of the BHEL. "I have only pointed out what is stated in the NCMP (National Common Minimum Programme) that chronically loss making units, should be sold or closed down. I am only repeating what the CMP says," Chidambaram told reports referring to the Common Minimum Programme. Veteran Communist leader Jyoti Basu, however, said that there would be more face-offs in the future if the Congress did not mend its ways.

Shane Warne's second sex shocker (Go To Top)

     London: Ace Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has been caught two-timing again. According to The Mirror, Warne is reported to have had sex with Kerrie Collimore, 31, on the bonnet of his BMW and sent her filthy texts as he tried to save his marriage. He is reported to have assured her that he was separated from his wife, Simone, before getting into the act. "He couldn't keep his hands off her. He wanted sex everywhere - outside, inside, wherever he could," one of Kerrie's friends was quoted by the tabloid,as saying. The friend also found 48 messages from Warne on Kerrie's phone which the sales manageress had left lying around. On one night in May the cricket star messaged "Can't wait to f**k u again". Nearly an hour later he was texting: "How good was our sex f*****g very hot...How good did it feel?" Six days later, he messaged: "What about I meet you somewhere in the open and you can be standing there in the rain I can come meet you and then f*** you? X".

     Another text was so steamy it cannot be printed. Warne, 35, split from wife Simone after claims that he had bedded Laura Sayers, a 25-year-old woman in a hotel in April surfaced in The Sun. The couple have three children - Brooke, seven, Jackson, five, and Summer, three, and split after being married for ten years. Last night it emerged that Warne, who has been linked to a string of sex scandals, also exchanged dozens of texts with a TV station secretary, Michelle Masters, earlier this month. Michelle works near Warne's Southampton home and has been one of his frequent companions. She, however, insisted: "Plenty of girls claim to have slept with Shane, but I'm not one of them. Anyone who knows me would never say we were an item in a million years." Warne started texting Kerrie hours after meeting her at a nightclub in Southampton, where he has a flat. "Shane fell for her as soon as he saw her. She'd no idea who he was and when she found out, she wasn't bothered. Shane wouldn't leave her alone. The phone was on fire with his messages. Kerrie couldn't believe how raunchy he was. He had the hots for her big time. She didn't know anything about his past and thought he was separated," Kerrie's friend said. After their first night together, Warne offered to drive Kerrie home but was stopped by police and breathalysed.

      After a month together, Kerrie called off the relationship when Warne cancelled a date. But the following week Warne could not resist texting her again - and the affair resumed. Warne and Kerrie spent several nights together after he told her he was separated. But the bowler later admitted he would give his marriage another shot if he could. In 2000, Warne was stripped of the vice captaincy of the Australian team after pestering nurse Donna Wright with explicit calls. Three years later married stripper Angela Gallagher claimed she had a three-month affair with the star. Earlier this month the cricketer, previously accused of sending sex texts to women, made a fresh attempt to mend his ways by promising to dump his mobile phone and use e-mail instead.

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