Charges filed against Serbian priest for drug rehab beatingMay 29th, 2009 Serbian priest charged in rehab beatingBELGRADE, Serbia — Police have filed torture charges against a Serbian Orthodox priest for beating a drug rehab patient with a shovel. The former head of the church-backed Crna Reka rehab center in southern Serbia, Branislav Peranovic, has been removed from his position after a video broadcast on national television showed him swinging a shovel at an unnamed patient's lower back.
After oath, YSR inks to fulfil poll promisesMay 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Immediately after taking oath as Andhra Pradesh chief minister here Wednesday evening, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy signed two files related to free electricity supply and low price rice - the two poll promises of the Congress.
CNN presents hour-long special documentary, Addiction - Life on the EdgeMay 3rd, 2009 Airdates: Indian Standard Time
Sunday April 19 at 0730hrs and 2330hrs IST
Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows the lives of four addicts who have been through rehab as they try to maintain their tenuous hold on sobriety: a younger writer, a teenager, a mother and a retiree.
In updated version of memoir, Reid says Obama told him, 'I have a gift'April 27th, 2009 Reid says Obama told him, 'I have a gift'WASHINGTON — Everyone knows President Barack Obama can deliver a great speech, including the president himself, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The paperback version of Reid's book, "The Good Fight," is coming out May 5 with an epilogue called "The Obama Era." Reid said he was impressed when Obama, then a freshman senator from Illinois, delivered a speech about President George W.
Girardi: Alex Rodriguez rehab going better than expectedApril 24th, 2009 A-Rod reports good things from rehabBOSTON — Alex Rodriguez is zooming along in rehab and remains on target for a May 15 return to the Yankees. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said before New York's game against the Red Sox on Friday night that he heard from Rodriguez and it was his best day yet.
Rehab fling may risk Blake Fielder's 5 mn pound divorce settlementApril 12th, 2009 LONDON - Gilleen Morris has revealed that she is six weeks pregnant with the child of Amy Winehouse's estranged husband Blake Fielder Civil. She said she conceived in a rehab.
Chennai advocate urges poll panel to disqualify TDP candidatesApril 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - S. Subramaniam Balaji, a city-based advocate, has accused the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) of bribing people to vote for it and urged the Election Commission to disqualify the party's candidates for the Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh assembly polls.
Don't promise freebies, industry tells partiesMarch 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has urged political parties to refrain from offering free power and foodgrains like wheat and rice at highly subsidised rates, saying such freebies could stunt economic growth in the long run. In an appeal to political parties Wednesday, Assocham said they should balance their offer of free power to farmers and others with specific steps to prevent misuse.
Naidu is frustrated, lacks credibility: YSRMarch 7th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The ruling Congress party in Andhra Pradesh Friday said the free colour television and cash transfer schemes for poor promised by Telugu Desam Party (TPD) president N. Chandrababu Naidu show his frustration to come back to power.
From TVs to free education, it's the season of promises in AndhraMarch 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - It is raining promises in Andhra Pradesh ahead of next month's polls to the Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly with opposition parties promising to give voters free colour televisions and even outright cash. Hoping to counter the Congress government's populist schemes implemented during the last five years, the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the newest entrant in the political battlefield, actor Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam, are promising the virtual moon.
U2 gets free advertising from BBCFebruary 24th, 2009 LONDON - Irish rock band U2 is reportedly getting more than a million pounds of free publicity from BBC along with a series of special shows and appearances. Critics are unhappy with this arrangement claiming that BBC is acting like a publicity machine for U2 as they get ready to release their new album, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Adler of Guns 'N Roses ordered to check into rehabFebruary 7th, 2009 LONDON - Former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler was ordered to check himself into rehab after he was arrested for not completing a court-ordered community service. Contactmusic.com reports that Adler did not complete the order that was set by the judge.
I don't need publicity: Lily AllenFebruary 2nd, 2009 LONDON - British pop singer Lily Allen feels that she is 'over-exposed' and wants people to take her music seriously and not just pay attention to her antics. Thesun.co.uk quoted Allen as saying: 'I don't need publicity.
Omar Abdullah takes oath along with Tara Chand as deputyJanuary 4th, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah Monday took oath as the eighth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir along with nine ministers including Tara Chand of the Congress as his deputy at this winter capital of the state. Governor N.N.
Congress yet to name Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief ministerDecember 31st, 2008 JAMMU - The Congress is yet to find its nominee for the deputy chief minister in its coalition government with the National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir, due to be sworn in on Jan 5. National Conference's Omar Abdullah will be the chief minister and Congress will hold the number two position, to which is a party leader from the Jammu region is expected to be named.
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