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A gangster who hails from Delhi and had links with underworld don Chhota Rajan today claimed to have murdered the controversial Nepalese...

Chhota Rajan man says he killed Nepal media tycoon

Kathmandu: A gangster who hails from Delhi and had links with underworld don Chhota Rajan today claimed to have murdered the controversial Nepalese media tycoon Jamim Shah for his anti-India activities,even as police has arrested 20 people in the case. Shah,47,the owner of Space Time Television Network and Space Time daily newspaper,was shot dead by a gang of two unidentified persons in Kathmandu,close to the Indian Embassy on Sunday. Avenues Television,a private TV channel claimed that it received a call from a man Bharat Nepali who reportedly hails from Delhi.

Shuttle Endeavor rockets into orbit

Cape Canaveral: Endeavor and six astronauts rocketed into orbit on Sunday night on what was expected to be the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program,hauling a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station. The space shuttle took flight before dawn,igniting the sky with a brilliant flash seen for miles around. Looks like the weather came together tonight, launch director Mike Leinbach told the astronauts right before liftoff.

Ukraine Oppn leader appears to win poll

KIEV: Opposition leader Viktor F Yanukovich appeared on Monday to have won a narrow victory in Ukraines presidential election,according to nearly complete results,giving him an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution,when he was shunned as a bumbling Kremlin sidekick. With 98.7 per cent of the ballots counted from Sundays runoff election,Yanukovich had 48.6 per cent of the vote,to 45.8 per cent for his Orange opponent,Prime Minister Yulia V Tymoshenko.

Iran to cut ties with British Museum

DUBAI: Iran said it will cut ties with the British Museum on Monday because of the museums failure to lend Tehran an ancient Babylonian artifact described as the worlds earliest bill of rights. The spat over the loan has long festered between London and Tehran,and comes against the backdrop of increasingly tense Iranian-British relations. The artifact is a 6th century BC clay tablet with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by Persian King Cyrus the Great.

Hundreds flee south Afghan town

KANDAHAR: Minivans piled high with mattresses and clothing lined up at checkpoints as hundreds of civilians fled a Taliban-controlled area ahead of a planned NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan. The US has not given a start date for the operation to clear insurgents from the Helmand province town of Marjah,the biggest community in the south under insurgent control.