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Taliban imposes sharia in Hangu

Islamabad, Jan. 3 : The Pakistani Taliban has announced the enforcement of sharia in the Shakai, Sheikhan and Mulakhel areas of Hangu District within a month of a similar `enforcement' in Orakzai agency of the North Western Frontier Province.

Reports reaching here from Hangu said that Taliban were using loudspeakers in mosques to announce the decree and asked people to bring their issues to `Taliban Islamic courts' for their resolution.

According to the Daily Times, the new Taliban laws don't allow women to visit bazaars. They can only go out for medical treatments, but only if they are accompanied by a male elder of the family.

The Taliban has imposed a complete ban on TV and CDs and video centres in the lower agency.

India Inc Hails Stimulus Package

India FlagIndian corporate sector hailed the recently announced second stimulus package by the Union Government of Friday. The steps taken by the government to ease liquidity and relaxation in credit borrowing norms would help to propel economy. However, India Inc demands more fiscal measures to remove stress on the economy and to sustain its adequate growth rate. Industry demanded speedy implementation of spending on infrastructure projects.

Kolkata auto-rickshaw operators set two buses on fire

Kolkata, Jan 3 : Two buses were reportedly set ablaze today by protesting Trinamool Congress-backed auto-rickshaw operators who were agitating against a court ban on ageing public transport vehicles in the city.

The strike turned violent with irate auto drivers vandalising a government bus at Park Circus.

The agitators turned violent, and stoned and set fire to a West Bengal Transport Corporation bus. The bus was only partially damaged as locals managed to douse the flames. No one was injured.

Childhood disease unlikely to have kill Travolta’s son, say docs

Childhood disease unlikely to have kill Travolta’s son, say docsNew York, January 3: Doctors say that the childhood illness that Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta's son Jett had been suffering from, scientifically called

Kawasaki disease, could not be blamed for his death because it was unlikely to cause the boy's reported seizure.

"Seizures are not part of Kawasaki disease," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Stanford Shulman, a specialist in the disease at Northwestern University''s Feinberg

School of Medicine, as saying.

Government Announces Second Stimulus Package

Montek Singh AhluwaliaSince The Union Government has announced the second fiscal stimulus package on Friday to sustain the adequate growth rate. It contains measures to provide credit at low interest rates, higher public spending and easing liquidity and export import related concessions to propel the economic growth and mitigate the impact of global slowdown. The Reserve Bank has also announced key interest rate revision as a part of this fiscal package.

EU demands end to Ukraine-Russia row as gas flow slows

Moscow/Brussels/Kiev/Budapest/Prague - Russian natural gas deliveries fell substantially in downstream markets on Saturday, drawing a sharp European Union demand the Kremlin and Ukraine end a row over energy.

Russian natural gas volumes pumped via Ukrainian pipelines to Romania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania all were down, with Romania registering a 33 per cent cut in deliveries.

Russia on Thursday halted natural gas deliveries to Ukraine because of a delivery contract dispute. Fuel volumes moving onward to Europe fell marginally on Friday.

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