Denying sex to spouse on first night ground for marriage annulment: Delhi high court

Wilful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi high court has ruled. 

Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the wedding night and making him long for it for the subsequent five months, left her matrimonial home. 

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Sine Mora

This time-sensitive shooter is hard as hell, but undeniably fun.

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Seeing as how we won’t be getting another good “bullet hell” shooter for the next few months (Rising Star Games will release Cave’s Akai Katanaover the summer), fans of the not-so-traditional shooter line are searching for anything to bide their time with.  Fortunately, the lunatics over at Grasshopper Manufacture (and I say that with a positive spin) have finally released its long-awaited Sine Mora this week on Xbox Live Arcade.  With a manic story, an interesting new time-stopping/rewinding mechanic and a challenge that’s perfect for die-hard “shmup” fans, it’s definitely a game worthy of your attention.

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Wishtel launches two 'Ira' Android budget tablets, starting Rs. 4,000

Wishtel India has launched 2 tablets in the Indian market, the Ira Thing and the Ira. The two tablets are priced at Rs. 4000 and Rs. 5,500 respectively, plus tax. The specifications of both the budget tablets are the same apart from the fact that the Ira Thing has a resistive touchscreen and the Ira has a capacitive touchscreen. The battery of both the devices too is different.

The Ira Thing has a 2,200 mAh battery where as the Ira has a 2,800 mAh battery. Other specifications of the device can be found in the table at the end of the article.

The device comes preloaded with a bunch of apps such as a Web Browser, Media Player, Photo viewer, Office, MSN, Skype, Gtalk, Note pad, Clock, Weather and more.

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New iPads face heat and Wi-Fi complaints

Apple’s new iPad is hot — the company has sold more than 3 million units on the device’s debut weekend alone.

But some customers are complaining that the next-generation tablet computer is also too hot to handle, while others are moaning about faults in the device’s Wi-Fi connection.

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Get a 16GB Kingston flash drive for $10.95 shipped

Jumping jack flash-drives!

While supplies last (and they definitely won't last long), Buy.com has the Kingston DataTraveler 109 16GB flash drive for $10.95 shipped--the lowest price I've ever seen on a drive with that much storage space.

Update: Be sure to select the "budget shipping" option. Also, remove the CA security option that is automatically added to your cart.

Though it's hard to tell from the picture, this drive is tiny. 

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Pakistan win by 2 runs.

Mirpur: 9.34 pm 50th Over: leading edge to third man. Single of first ball. Single off the second ball. 7 runs from 4 balls. Dot ball. Double plus overthrow. 3 runs of fourth ball. Dot ball. Double plus overthrow. 3 runs of fourth ball. Fifth ball, OUT! F.O.W. 233/8 . Abdur Razzaq moves across but fails to connect , the slower balsl hits the inside of his bat then on to the stumps. 4 runs off 1 ball. Single of the last ball. Bangladesh come agonizingly close to victory. Pakistan win by 2 runs. 


9.34 pm 50th Over: leading edge to third man. Single of first ball. Single off the second ball. 7 runs from 4 balls

9.34 pm 50th Over: leading edge to third man. Single of first ball.

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Cause of male baldness found

Scientists have finally identified the culprits that are responsible for causing baldness in men. They are a enzyme known as prostaglandin D2, also known as PGD2 and its derivative (15-dPGJ2). Incidentally, the enzyme and its derivative were found to show the same effect in mice as well.

The results are published today (March 22) in Science Translational Medicine.

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Bangladesh restrict Pakistan to 236/9 in Asia Cup final

Sarfraz Ahmed top-scored with 46 not out on Thursday as Pakistan was restricted to 236-9 by Bangladesh in the Asia Cup final.

Opener Mohammad Hafeez made 40, Shahid Afridi 32, while Umar Akmal and Hammad Azam both hit 30.

Pakistan made a slow start and was reduced to 55-3 due to some tight bowling and fielding by Bangladesh, but a final over of 19 runs helped the team post a defendable total.

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Congress scores in Karnataka, Gujarat; routed in A.P.

The Congress won two morale-boosting victories in a string of bypolls, results for which came in on Wednesday: it snatched a Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka — taking its strength in the Lower House up to 207 — and an Assembly seat in Gujarat, both of which have been held by its principal national rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, for the last 15 years. For the BJP, which is in power in both States, these two defeats don't augur well , especially as Assembly elections are due in Gujarat later this year and in Karnataka in 2013. But the Congress' celebrations in these two States, as well as the victory of the Kerala Congress (Jacob), its partner in the UDF government in Kerala, were offset by the ill-wind that blew in from Andhra Pradesh. Thanks to its shoddy handling of the Telangana issue, the party failed to win even one of the seven seats that went to the polls in a State in which it is in power.

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Emphatic win for AIADMK in Sankarankoil

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The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) pulled off an emphatic victory in the Sankarankoil Assembly by-election, recording a margin of victory of over 68,000 votes.

In winning the reserved seat for a fifth time in a row, the AIADMK crushed all the opponents forcing them to lose their deposit. This is the second by-poll victory for the ruling party since it came to power in May 2011. The party had won the Tiruchi (West) Assembly by-election last year.

The victorious candidate, S. Muthuselvi, secured 94,977 votes (59.44 per cent) of the total 1, 59,772 votes polled on March 18. She defeated her nearest rival J. Jawahar Suryakumar of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by a massive margin of 68,757 votes. He could manage only 26, 220 votes.

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Quit Yahoo, get $25,000 bonus?

Here's one good thing about being a Yahoo employee: if you quit and join Yammer, a social networking service forbusinesses, in the next 60 days you'll pocket a $25,000 signing bonus. 

That's the offer that was tweeted on Thursday by Yammer CEO David Sacks. 

"They've got a lot of great engineers there," Sacks said in an interview with Reuters. "The talent has been misused by senior managementwhich has made a lot of bad decisions." 

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Soumitra Chatterjee named for Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who has portrayed a versatile range of lead characters in films by Satyajit Ray, has been selected for India's highest film honour - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012.

Confirming the news, Chatterjee told IANS that he was "extremely happy" at the honour.

"I am extremely happy. Till this evening I had not thought of this award. But after I got the news I am extremely happy," Chatterjee said.

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Team India Kicked out by Bangladesh from Asia Cup

India were on Tuesday night knocked out of the Asia Cup after Bangladesh continued their giant-killing act by upsetting Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match.

Chasing a revised target of 212 after a rain interruption, the spirited hosts held their nerve to make their maiden entry into the summit showdown of the tournament where they will meet Pakistan on Thursday.

Nasir Hossain (36 not out) hit the winning boundary straight down the ground as the home crowd at the jam-packed Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium went into a state of frenzy.

Tamim Iqbal (59 off 57 balls; 9x4), Shakib Al Hasan (56 off 46; 7x4), Hossain (36 off 61; 3x4) and Mahmadullah (32 not out off 33; 3x4) were the notable batting heroes for Bangladesh, who recorded their second consecutive upset wins after having beaten India last Friday.

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Mukul Roy sworn in as Railway Minister

Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy was on Tuesday elevated to cabinet rank to take over as Railway Minister replacing Dinesh Trivedi, who was forced to resign after Congress caved in to Mamata Banerjee’s pressure.

Widely expected to roll back at least the lower class passenger fare hike proposed by Mr. Trivedi in the Railway Budget, Roy, 57, was sworn in as cabinet minister at a special but brief ceremony by President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

He was currently serving as Union Minister of State for Shipping and had earlier served as Minister of State in the Railway ministry before Mr. Trivedi took over last July.

The ceremony was attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the UPA chairperson and cabinet ministers including ministers of Trinamool Congress.

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Supreme Court dismisses govt.’s review petition on Vodafone verdict

The Supreme Court today dismissed Government’s plea seeking review of its verdict which held that Income Tax Department does not have jurisdiction to levy Rs. 11,000 crore as tax on the overseas deal between Vodafone International Holdings and Hutchison Group.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan dismissed the Centre’s review petition in the Vodafone tax case during an in-chamber proceeding.

In the petition, the Centre contended there was a need for reconsidering the Janaury 20 verdict as the law on deciding the case involving the telecom major has not been correctly interpreted.

It had raised several points to contend that the verdict was erroneous.

The court had given the verdict allowing Vodafone’s appeal and had quashed the Bombay High Court verdict which had upheld the decision to levy tax on the overseas deal.

After the review petition was filed on February 17, the government in its March 16 budget proposed to amend the Income Tax Act to levy capital gains tax on domestic asset acquisition through merger and acquisition deals involving foreign companies.

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Saina Nehwal Wins the Swiss Open Grand Prix

Saina Nehwal ended her title drought by winning the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold title in Basel at the expense of former world No. 1 Shixian Wang on Sunday. 

The Hyderabad girl's last international title was at the same event (March 20, 2011) and by making a successful title defence, Saina has reasons to feel happy in the run-up to theLondon Olympics, especially for the way she got the better of two Chinese stars - Xin (F) Liu (quarters) and Wang - here. 

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RIM slashes Playbook 64 GB price in India

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Canadian firm Research in Motion (RIM) has slashed the price of its 64 GB version of tablet PC PlayBook by around 18 per cent to Rs 19,990.

In December last year, RIM had slashed the price of its PlayBook to Rs 24,490 for the 64GB version. It was retailing for Rs 37,990.

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Jet discontinues JetLite, merges with Konnect

As part of a strategic rebranding and restructuring exercise announced last July, Jet Airways, on Monday, said, effective March 25, its low-cost arm JetLite would cease to operate, after being merged with the other no-frills brand JetKonnect.

“Effective March 25, JetLite will cease to operate separately, but will come under the JetKonnect brand, enabling guests to avail themselves of a single superior in-flight product in the full service (Jet Airways) and low-fare categories,” group Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan said in a statement.

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Mamata has her way, Trivedi to quit

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The embattled Railway Minister, Dinesh Trivedi, agreed to resign on Sunday evening, four days after he presented the Railway budget that angered his leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

“She [Mamata Banerjee] spoke to me. The Trinamool Congress wants me to resign,” Mr. Trivedi told journalists. “I told her [that] I will abide by the party's [decision] and resign.”

Sources in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), however, said no resignation letter was received from Mr. Trivedi.

Mr. Trivedi succumbed to pressure from the party after he had a telephone conversation with Ms. Banerjee on Sunday. “Dinesh Trivedi called in,” she told journalists in Kolkata, stressing: “He will resign. And he will stay in the party.”

Ms. Banerjee also said she was flying to New Delhi on Sunday night. She will preside over a meeting of the Trinamool Parliamentary Party scheduled for Monday afternoon.

While Ms. Banerjee is determined to see that her nominee for the Railway Minister, Mukul Roy, replies to the debate on the budget, it is not yet clear whether the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will agree to that.

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VICTORY FOR INDIA

Mirpur: VICTORY FOR INDIA AS DHONI SLAPS ONE PAST COVER 

9.22 pm 47th Over: Ind 318/3 First ball. low full toss andFOUR!!!. down the leg side Kohli clips to fine leg boundary. Last ball of the over, Raina picks up another FOUR!!!through midwicket region. 

9.12 pm 46th Over: Ind 307/3 OUT!!! F.O.W 305/3 Rohit Sharma 68 (83b) went for a pull but ended up top edging it straight to Shahid Afridi at midwicket. 

9.09 pm 45th Over: Ind 300/2 KOHLI ON FIRE 300 up for India as Kohli slaps one past extra cover for his 20 boundary of the innings. 8 runs of the over. 30 runs needed off 30 balls. 

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Two Italian tourists abducted by Maoists in Odisha: Police

BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR (ODISHA): Two Italian tourists have been abducted byMaoists from the tribal-dominated Kandhamal-Ganjam border area in Odisha, said police on Sunday, which is monitoring the situationclosely.

"There is information about abduction of two persons by Maoists in Kandhamal district. Further details are awaited," Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj told PTI over phone.

Home secretary UN Behera today confirmed the incident and said the abduction took place last night.

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Polling for Andhra by-elections begins

Polling for by-elections to seven Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh started this morning amid tight security.

Six of these constituencies - Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, Kamareddy, Adilabad and Station Ghanpur - are in Telangana region, while the seventh, Kovvur, is in coastal Andhra.

Voting began at 8 a.m and will continue till 5 p.m. The total number of eligible voters is about 13 lakh. The state’s Chief Electoral Office Bhanwar Lal said that the election machinery was geared up for a smooth polling.

The by-elections to five of these constituencies were necessitated by the resignations of sitting MLAs in support of the separate Telangana demand. At Mahabubnagar, sitting MLA died, while in Kovur, the sitting TDP MLA quit in support of Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohana Reddy.

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