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Kathmandu:  Two young Indian girls miraculously survived after a small plane they were travelling in crashed near high-altitude Jomsom airport in northern Nepal today. The girls, aged 6 and 9, are among the six survivors who were rescued alive from under the debris of the ill-fated plane.

The Dornier aircraft got buried after hitting a mountain peak straddling the airport.

"The girls are conscious and out of danger," Indian Embassy spokesperson Apoorva Srivastav told news channels.

The third survivor, she said, was a 45-year-old man. It was not clear whether the parents of the young girls survived.

The girls and the man were part of a group of Indian pilgrims who were on their way to a pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Muktinath.

"We are in touch with few of the relatives of the families," Ms Srivastav said, adding that the control room number has been circulated and people have been contacting us. At least 15 people, most of them Indians, died in the crash.

Ms Srivastav assured that rescue operations were in full swing adding that Nepal army personnel have rushed to the crash site.

"Nepal army personnel have left for the accident site to bring the remains of the deceased to Kathmandu. They are expected to reach Kathmandu by 4 pm," she said.

The aircraft which hit the top of a hill while landing at the Jomsom airport reportedly broke into pieces but did not catch fire. The plane is now buried in the side of the hill.

"All fifteen bodies have been recovered from the site and they are being airlifted to Kathmandu," a journalist with The Himalayan Times quoted police as saying.

From : NDTV

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Nepal Plane Crash: Indian Survivors Include Two Young Girls

Kathmandu:  Two young Indian girls miraculously survived after a small plane they were travelling in crashed near high-altitude Jomsom airport in northern Nepal today. The girls, aged 6 and 9, are among the six survivors who were rescued alive from under the debris of the ill-fated plane.

The Dornier aircraft got buried after hitting a mountain peak straddling the airport.

"The girls are conscious and out of danger," Indian Embassy spokesperson Apoorva Srivastav told news channels.

The third survivor, she said, was a 45-year-old man. It was not clear whether the parents of the young girls survived.

The girls and the man were part of a group of Indian pilgrims who were on their way to a pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Muktinath.

"We are in touch with few of the relatives of the families," Ms Srivastav said, adding that the control room number has been circulated and people have been contacting us. At least 15 people, most of them Indians, died in the crash.

Ms Srivastav assured that rescue operations were in full swing adding that Nepal army personnel have rushed to the crash site.

"Nepal army personnel have left for the accident site to bring the remains of the deceased to Kathmandu. They are expected to reach Kathmandu by 4 pm," she said.

The aircraft which hit the top of a hill while landing at the Jomsom airport reportedly broke into pieces but did not catch fire. The plane is now buried in the side of the hill.

"All fifteen bodies have been recovered from the site and they are being airlifted to Kathmandu," a journalist with The Himalayan Times quoted police as saying.

From : NDTV

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7-inch tablet 'Attitude Daksha' for Rs 5,399

Thiruvananthapuram: Giving competition to the government's Aakash tablet, Telmoco Development Labs Pvt Ltd has come out with a Tablet PC - Attitude Daksha - a 7-inch tablet variant for Rs 5,399 inclusive of all taxes.

Attitude Daksha, touted as the most powerful 7-inch tablet computer for students and professionals, was launched here Tuesday.

Technopark Technology Business Incubator (T-TBIC) incubated Telmoco plans to compete in the low-cost tablet PC market where the government-launched Aakash tablet is prominent.
It features a capacitive 5 point touch screen, 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, and 512 MB DDR3 RAM.

Daksha features a capacitive 5 point touch screen with 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor with 512 MB DDR3 RAM. It has a HDMI port, Micro SD slot, 3.5 mm audio out, Micro USB port and having OTG connector for 3G Dongle and RJ 45lAN cable.

Daksha is capable of 1080p full HD video streaming and has dedicated 400 MHzGPU for advanced flash Apps, Interactive Apps and full HD videos. Daksha is powered by 3,800 mAh li-Pol battery which gives a back up of over 6 hours with WiFi on.

"Even though the Indian media tablets market witnessed high decibel launches by the world's leading vendors, the Tablet PC market in India is a niche market that is quickly picking up the pace in terms of adoption," said C.R. Nijesh, chairman and executive director, Telmoco at the launch.

Telmoco Development labs Pvt ltd is a company initiated in electronics research and mobile technologies.

Attitude Daksha is initially set off to launch at schools, professional institutions, and corporate houses and will be available in the market from May 15. It can be ordered online from Telmoco website.

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Doctors fight to save life of six-legged baby

A baby born in Pakistan's Sindh province has six legs, with a doctor assessing that the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a "serious and time-consuming medical exercise". Birth defects like the Mermaid syndrome, a deformity where the legs are fused together, Craniopagus, a phenomenon where twins are joined at the head, and Dicephalic parapagus, a condition of having two heads, occur rarely but prove challenging to the medical world. Here are some instances of successful treatment of congenital diseases.

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Time's 100 most Influential People in the World

The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry.

From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan.

The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel Messi.

Here's a look at the names that feature in the Time 100 list: 

1. Jeremy Lin- Basketball Player, America
2. Christian Marclay- Visual artist and composer,Swiss-America
3. Viola Davis- Actress, America
4. Salman Khan- Educator, America
5. Tim Tebow- Football quarterback, American
6. EL James- Author, America
7. Louis CK- Comedian, Mexican-American
8. Rihanna- Recording artist, actress, US
9. Marco Rubio- United States Senator from Florida
10. Ali Ferzat- Cartoonist, Syria
11. René Redzepi- chef, Denmark
12. Kristen Wiig- Television actress, comedian, America
13. Anthony Kennedy- Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
14. Novak Djokovic- Tennis player, Serbia and Montenegro
15. Ben Rattray- Founder, Change.org, US
16. Jessica Chastain- Actress, America
17. Yani Tseng- Golfer- Republic of China (Taiwan)
18. Raphael Saadiq- Singer- America
19. Elinor Ostrom- Economist, US
20. Samira Ibrahim- Plaintiff, Egypt
21. Jose Andres- Chef, Spanish
21. Ann Patchett- Writer, America
22. Dulce Matuz- President, Arizona Dream Act Coalition
23. Henrik Scharfe- Professor, Director, Centre for Computer-mediated Epistemology, Denmark
24. Freeman Hrabowski- Educator, America
25. Maryam Durani- Member, Kandahar Provincial Council, Afghanistan
26. Manal al-Sharif- Women's rights activist and computer security consultant, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
27. Anjali Gopalan- Advocate, India
28. Rached Ghannouchi- Tunisian Islamist politician and co-founder, The Ennahda Movement
29. Barbara Van Dahlen- Founder and President, Give an Hour, US
30. Ron Fouchier- Scientist, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
31. Donald Sadoway- John F Elliott Professor, Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
32. Hans Rosling- Statistician, Sweden
33. Asghar Farhadi- Filmmaker, Iran
34. Sarah Burton- Fashion Designer, UK
35. Anonymous- Self described hacktivist group, Voluntary association, Global
36. Pete Cashmore- Social News Guru,Scotland
37. Cami Anderson- Superintendent,Newark schools
38. Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu- Neo-Ottomans,
39. Ai-jen Poo- Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, US
40. Marc Andreessen- Kingmaker, America
41. Preet Bharara- Prosecutor, America
42. Robert Grant- AIDS Researcher, San Francisco
43. Andrew Lo- Harris & Harris Group Professor Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
44. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy- Pakistani-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker
45. Alexei Navalny- Russian lawyer, politician, and political and financial activist
46. Ray Dalio- American businessman and founder of Bridgewater Associates
47. Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani- Prime Minister of Qatar
48. Chelsea Handler- American stand-up comedian, actress, best-selling author, and producer
49. Harvey Weinstein- American film producer and movie studio chairman
50. Chen Lihua- Chairperson, Fu Wah International, China
51. Warren Buffett- Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
52. Alice Walton- Heiress, Walton family fortune
53. Harold Hamm- CEO, Continental Resources
54. Sheryl Sandberg- COO, Facebook
55. Sara Blakely- Founder of Spanx, and world's youngest self-made female billionaire, US
56. Eike Batista- President, EBX Group, Brazil
57. Tim Cook- CEO, Apple, US
58. Daniel Ek- CEO and Founder, Spotify, Sweden
59. Virginia Rometty- CEO, IBM, US
60. Barack Obama- President, USA
61. Goodluck Jonathan- President of Nigeria
62. Xi Jinping- First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China
63. Fatou Bensouda- Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Gambia
64. Christine Lagarde- MD, IMF, France
65. Mario Draghi- President, European Central Bank, Italy
66. U Thein Sein- President of Burma
67. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei- Supreme Leader of Iran
68. Mitt Romney- Candidate, 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination
69. Juan Manuel Santos- President of Colombia
70. Timothy Dolan- American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
71. Portia Simpson Miller- Prime Minister of Jamaica
72. Mario Monti- Prime Minister of Italy
73. Wang Yang- Secretary, Guangdong Committee of the Communist Party of China
74. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster- CEO of Petrobras, Brazil
75. Andrew Cuomo- Governor of New York, US
76. Iftikhar Chaudhry- Chief Justice of Pakistan
77. Mamata Banerjee- Chief Minister Of Indian state of West Bengal
78. Walter Isaacson- President and CEO, Aspen Institute, US
79. Ron Paul- Member of the US House of Representatives
80. Benjamin Netanyahu- Prime Minister of Israel
81. Dilma Rousseff- President of Brazil
82. Erik Martin- Founder and editor, Muschelhaufen
83. Cecile Richards- Democratic Party activist, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
84. Angela Merkel- Chancellor of Germany
85. Lionel Messi- Footballer and Captain of Argentinian national team
86. Tilda Swinton- British actress
87. Hillary Clinton- United States Secretary of State
88. Catherine- Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton, her sister
89. Adele- Recording artist and songwriter, UK
90. Matt Lauer, TV journalist, Host, NBC's The Today Show
91. Oscar Pistorius- sprint runner, South Africa
93. Claire Danes- American television, stage and film actress
94. Stephen Colbert- American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, actor; Host, Comedy Central's The Colbert Report

Rogues
 
Kim Jong Un- Supreme leader of North Korea
Mullah Mohammed Omar- Spiritual leader, Taliban, Afghanistan
Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr- Emir, Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen, Somalia
Bashar Assad- President of Syria

Joel Stein Essay
 
From 100 to Eternity
The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time
Editor's Letter
A World of Possibilities

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Mumbai Senior Cop Suspended for Raping Colleague

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said tainted police officer Anil Mahabole has been suspended for allegedly raping a woman police inspector. Patil's statement came during the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly session.

Mahabole, an assistant commissioner of police, was on Tuesday charged with raping a woman inspector who resides at Kurla in central Mumbai.

The victim had approached Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajnesh Seth and Jt CP (Crime) Himanshu Roy last week, alleging that Mahabole raped her several times.

She alleged that Mahabole visited her Kurla house and offered her sweets laced with intoxicants, which made her unconscious. The victim had further alleged that Mahabole raped her after that and also made an MMS clip of her.

"Mahabole then blackmailed her to continue having physical relations with her. He also paid her regular visits in the absence of her husband and raped her repeatedly," an officer from Mumbai's Azad Maidan police station said.

Following the complaint, cops appointed a senior level officer to make preliminary inquiries into the matter. "The inquiries confirmed that the victim was raped. The Azad Maidan police have registered a case of rape against Mahabole," said Mumbai Police spokesperson Nisar Tamboli.

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Issue Summons to Facebook Through Email: Court

New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content on Wednesday ordered that summons be served to US-based social networking site, Facebook through email. 

Meanwhile petitioner's counsel Santosh Pandey moved an application seeking the government should be brought as a plaintiff for proper adjudication of the case as it is related to national issues.

Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh order that summons to Facebook should be served through email within three days after observing that the firm has not appeared in the court as summons were not served against it. 

The court was hearing a case filed by petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, an Islamic researcher linked to a website run by the Islamic Peace Foundation of India, who had sought removal of objectionable content from various websites. 

Qasmi in a newly revised list submitted in last hearing April 12 has sought to prosecute - Facebook India, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Orkut, Youtube Inc, and Blogspot. 

Pandey has moved another application seeking review of the order of dropping the name of Orkut India, Youtube India and Blogspot India from the case. He said that the no objection given by him for deletion of the names of Google India and the other three parties was due to confusion. 

He told the court that submissions made by Google India, Orkut India, Youtube India and Blogspot India that they were only subsidiaries of Google Inc, Orkut, Youtube and Blogspot were wrong.

The court has listed the matter for Thursday for further hearing. 

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