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Kanchi Mutt accounts frozen; may seek legal recourse

Kancheepuram, Jan. 13 (UNI): The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, is the prime accused, today ordered freezing of 183 bank accounts of the Mutt, affecting the functioning of the Sankara Mutt and various trusts owned by it. Stating that the police had not cited any reasons for freezing the accounts, Mutt advocate A Shanmugham, said a decision on resorting to legal action would be taken after discussions. ... More

Anil Ambani fires fresh salvo at Mukesh

NEW DELHI, Jan 13: RIL vice-chairman Anil Ambani on Thursday fired another salvo at his elder brother Mukesh, accusing a key director of one of the group companies of sullying the group's image. Anand Jain, director of a Reliance company, IPCL, and a close confidant of RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani, was the target of a letter sent by Anil to his brother. Anil had attacked Jain earlier this month also by accusing him of conspiring to divide the family. The fresh attack from the younger brother comes amid reports that a formula for legal separation was being worked out at the behest of Kokila Ben, the widow of Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani, by ICICI Bank Chairman KV Kamath...(PTI)

Indonesia's tsunami death toll nears 210,000

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan 13 - An official document says that nearly 210,000 people in Indonesia are dead or missing from the Dec. 26 tsunami, a death toll that appears to be far higher than officials have reported publicly. Rescue workers think even that number may be low. The larger Indonesia toll would bring the total of dead and missing from the tidal surge across the Indian Ocean to nearly 272,000, ranking the tsunami as the fifth or sixth deadliest natural disaster in about 250 years. (Knight Ridder Newspapers)..

Malaria Could Kill 100K in Asia

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP), Jan 13 - Malaria could kill up to 100,000 people in coming months across Indian Ocean communities devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami if authorities do not quickly move to kill mosquitoes, a health expert warned Thursday. "The 150,000 extra deaths from disease that the WHO predicts could occur ... is very plausible," Allan said, referring to a World Health Organization prediction of the number of disease deaths that could follow the tsunami if precautions are not taken. "Up to three quarters of those deaths could be from malaria."...

Iraq rebels in video taunt

BAGHDAD (Reuters), Jan 13 - Departing from fiery Islamic slogans, Iraqi guerrillas have launched a propaganda campaign with an English-language video urging U.S. troops to lay down their weapons and seek refuge in mosques and homes. The video, narrated in fluent English by what sounded like an Iraqi educated in the United States or Britain, also mocked the U.S. president's challenge to rebels in the early days of the insurgency to 'bring it on'. "George W. Bush; you have asked us to 'bring it on'. And so help me, (we will) like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?," asked the narrator before the video showed explosions around a U.S. military Humvee vehicle. The Islamic Jihad Army video featured familiar scenes of guerrillas blowing up U.S. convoys but also highlighted some of the key issues of the Iraq war, from weapons of mass destruction to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

"We have not crossed the oceans and seas to occupy Britain or the U.S. nor are we responsible for 9/11. These are only a few of these lies that these criminals present to cover their true plans," said the narrator, apparently referring to the Bush administration's assertion of a link between Saddam Hussein and those attacks. A masked speaker with a machine gun beside him delivered his message to triumphant music with the ring of U.S. military propaganda films during World War Two. He said the enemy was on the run as the video showed guerrillas firing on U.S. convoys, standing beside the corpse of an American soldier, or loading a large shell for an attack...

US is worst racial abuser!

MUMBAI, JAN 13: Are executives working in call centers in Mumbai subjected to racial abuse? According to customer associate representatives (CRA) in the city, the United States is believed to be the worst offender.

“We hear remarks like ‘you bloody Indians, you do not know anything’. And at times when it becomes intolerable, we are allowed to disconnect the call,” said a CRA with the Powai-based Epicenter Technologies.

He however added that racial abuse was almost negligible in countries like Canada and Singapore and minimal in the UK and Australia.

“US has by far the highest incidence of racial abuse reported,” he said.
Sarita Saxena (name changed), a CRA with Intelenet Global Services Ltd, which has processes in the US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and some other parts of Asia, said she was almost on the verge of quitting her job because of one US-based customer.

“After he came to know that I was Indian, he just started to abuse me saying that all terrorists come from India and the US should bomb us all.

He then said we are violent because of the color of our skin,” she said.

However, Susir Kumar, CEO, Intelenet Global, said that no case of racial abuse has been reported in his company.

He said, “I have not encountered a single customer abusing a CRA.

Everything depends on the training given to the CRA. If racial abuse is there in the industry, it is because of lack of proper training in voice and accent.” (Mid-Day)

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