[wanabidii] Top Headlines: Anxious to halt BJP's winning spree, satraps throw weight behind AAP

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Anxious to halt BJP’s winning spree, satraps throw weight behind AAP

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday joined the growing procession of anti-BJP satraps to back Aam Aadmi Party’s energetic bid to beat the saffron party in the Delhi polls.

'Religious intolerance would've shocked Gandhi'

US President Barack Obama on Thursday said the "acts of intolerance" experienced by religious faiths of all types in India in the past few years would have shocked Gandhi.

Bedi, 4 others booked for NE ‘immigrant’ tag

A case was registered in Assam on Thursday against five BJP functionaries, including Delhi chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, for describing people from the northeast as immigrants in the party’s vision document.

CITIES

Two more women die of swine flu in Mumbai, Maharashtra count 27

Two diabetic women from Kharghar and Badlapur died of swine flu in different city hospitals on Thursday, bringing the panic closer home and taking the state’s death toll this year to 27.

Elephants express anger after one is killed in road accident

In a 'mammoth' display of strength and anger, a herd of elephants went on the rampage, blocking traffic for hours after one of their members was killed by an over speeding car on the Krishnagiri-Hosur national highway late on Tuesday night.

Shortage of H1N1 kits triggers panic in Hyderabad

Scores of swine flu suspects waited anxiously as both Institute of Preventive Medicine and Fever Hospital ran out of H1N1 test kits on Thursday.

TECH

Xiaomi phones to be made in India: Report

According to a report in Digitimes, Chinese OEM Inventec is planning to set up production lines at a leased factory in Chennai.

iGate executive accused of sexual harassment

iGate is in the middle of yet another sexual harassment lawsuit. Barely two years after its CEO Phaneesh Murthy was asked to leave for sexually harassing the company’s investor relations head Araceli Roiz, the IT services company’s legal head Mukund Srinath faces similar charges.

SPORTS

No Indian in Walsh's top fast bowlers' list for World Cup

Former West Indies pacer Courtney Walsh has revealed his list of fast bowlers who he thinks will shine in the World Cup starting February 14.

Cristiano Ronaldo voted best Premier League player

Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted the best player in the English Premier League, despite spending just six seasons in the division's 23-year history.

Sachin Tendulkar crosses 5 million followers on Twitter

Sachin's fan following continues to grow even after his retirement from international cricket. Sachin is only the second cricketer after Virat Kohli (@imvkohli) to reach this milestone.

BUSINESS

HDFC Bank raises Rs 9,800cr via QIP, ADR

HDFC Bank, one of the leading private sector banks in India, on Thursday raised nearly Rs 9,800 crore through a combination of foreign and domestic offerings.

Not banker to Sahara deal, says BofA

Subrata Roy, the boss of Indian conglomerate Sahara, is in a New Delhi prison on contempt-of-court charges and needs to post $1.6 billion in bail to get out. To help raise the money, Sahara is in talks to refinance its overseas hotels, including New York’s Plaza.

Sikka rejigs Infosys’s top deck

Vishal Sikka has undertaken the biggest restructuring in Infosys since he took over as the company’s CEO in August last year. He has reorganized the company’s delivery function and has reshuffled the responsibilities of a number of top executives.