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NEW DELHI: Facebook India today filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their websites.

Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which objections were raised by the petitioners.

Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the case and there is no cause of action against them in the matter.

Additional Civil Judge Praveen Singh also posed a query to the counsel appearing for petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, as to whether the blog service-providing companies can be made a party to the case for any content posted by the users on the blogs.

The court, which will further hear the matter at 12:30 PM today, also asked Google Inc as to why it was not coming up “properly” with a reply and brushed aside its contention that it had received the copy of the judgement and other documents related to case only on last Friday.

“Why are you (Google Inc) not coming properly with your reply?” the court said.

“Don’t tell me you have been served only on Friday. After all this hullabaloo that has been created in the last few months you should have been prepared,” it stated.

The court also asked the petitioner to supply the copies of all the documents relied

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NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup hero and man of the tournament, Yuvraj Singh, has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States, his physiotherapist revealed on Sunday.

This was corroborated by sources in the family and in the Indian cricket board.

Yuvraj had earlier been detected with a tumour between his left lung and heart, which has since been termed malignant.

“He is suffering from cancer and this is the first stage. It’s curable and he will be fit to play in May. He will be back on the field very soon,” his physiotherapist Jatin Chaudhary told TOI.

BCCI officials, however, said the lay-off could be longer and that chemotherapy was scheduled to continue for nine weeks.

Family sources said Yuvi, who has made many comebacks into the Indian team, is determined to overcome the disease. They said the chemo sessions had begun and he had lost weight.

“He is showing common after-effects of the treatment – loss of appetite and nausea. He is anxious but also keen to fight the ailment,” a family source said.

TOUGH SPELL

Yuvraj has been in the US since January 26 for chemotherapy at Cancer Research Institute, Boston Tumour in lung detected earlier, now diagnosed as malignant.

Doctor says parts of tumour are just above artery of heart, 100% curable Physio Jatin Chaudhary says diagnosis delayed till Oct 2011 as first

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MUNICH: After the first four “real” battlefields of land, air, sea and now increasingly space, India needs to get very serious about the virtual front as well. The country should begin planning a full-fledged military cyber command, instead of the current piecemeal and disjointed steps to bolster cyber-security, grappling as it already is with incessant online espionage and other attacks from China, Pakistan and others.

This was the clear takeaway from the deliberations on cyber-security and cyber-warfare in the high-profile Munich Security Conference on Sunday, even though India hardly figured in the discussions.

Experts said the emergence of “cyber-weapons” like the Stuxnet software ‘worm’ that was used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme over a year ago, had changed the entire security ballgame, almost on par with the use of nuclear bombs for the first time in 1945.

“Someone used a cyber-weapon in peacetime to physically destroy what the nation (Iran) would describe as its critical infrastructure. It was a new class of weapon that caused a thousand centrifuges in Iran to self-destruct,” said General (retd) Michael V Hayden, former director of the American CIA and National Security Agency.

Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt expressed fear that the risk of terrorists or others getting hold of cyber-weapons was possibly much higher than nuclear weapons. “Stealing and using Stuxnet might be more easy and dangerous than nuclear weapons,” he said.

Russian cyber expert Eugene Kaspersky,

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LONDON: Public unease has given way to increasing fury here over giving millions of pounds in aid to an increasingly prosperous India, as the David Cameron government continues to resist pressure to stop it despite being in the throes of an economic crisis.

The clamour to stop the aid reached a new high when India last week decided to prefer the French fighter jet Rafale to the Typhoon, which is partly manufactured in Britain.

The debate was passionately renewed today with The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph reporting that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had stated in the Rajya Sabha last August that India did not need British aid which, according to him, was “peanuts”. “We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development exercises (expenditure).”

Mukherjee’s remarks, reported to have been taken from the official transcript of the Rajya Sabha, were not reported in the UK media earlier, the newspapers said, sparking another wave of comments from people demanding an end to aid to India.

Reacting to media reports, the spokesman of the Indian High Commission to the UK said, “Yes, we have currently an aid programme with the UK. We are in ongoing consultation with British Government on nature, future direction, priority and manner of disbursal (of the aid).”

The papers also quoted a “leaked memo” which reportedly said that the then foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao proposed “not to avail (of) any

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RAE BARELI: Priyanka Gandhi today said the central focus of her brother Rahul Gandhi’s politics is not to become Prime Minister and the question does not arise at the moment.

“I do not think that is the central focus of his politics. We have an extremely good Prime Minister. We are fortunate to have a person who is honest and works well and I don’t think this question arises at the moment,” Priyanka told reporters here.

She was replying to a question on whether the time has come for Rahul to become Prime Minister, a demand that is frequently made by sections within the Congress.

The 40-year-old daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was all-praise for Rahul and his contribution to building up the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, said he is more concerned about his work than worrying about how the election results would impact his reputation.

“It his work that matters. He is not concerned about his reputation. Only cowards don’t lead from the front,” she said.

Priyanka said that before the 2007 Assembly elections Rahul had explained to her that though Congress was not organisationally strong in UP. He wanted to get involved as his concern was building up the party and work for the welfare of the state.

She asserted that Rahul was not working for a reputation but for change.

“As I understand it, the mandate my brother is trying to set is for development of the state,”

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NEW DELHI: Yuvraj Singh, the hero of India’s victorious World Cup campaign last year, is being treated for lung cancer in the United States, his physiotherapist said on Sunday.

Jatin Choudhary told a television news channel that the all-rounder was diagnosed in October and was being treated in Boston, but said the disease was in its early stages.

“Once he is done with chemo in March, his rehabilitation would be complete by April end and he would be perfectly fit to play in May,” Choudhary told a news agency.

Yuvraj’s family said last November that the all-rounder had been battling a golf ball-sized non-malignant lung tumour which first affected him during the World Cup.

His mother said he had been “constantly” troubled by bouts of coughing and vomiting throughout the tournament, which India won on home soil in April.

Despite this, the left-hander scored 362 runs and took 15 wickets in nine matches to earn the player of the tournament award as India took the title for the first time since 1983.

Yuvraj, known as an aggressive hitter and useful left-arm spin bowler, wrote on Twitter that he hoped to draw inspiration from Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who overcame testicular cancer to win numerous Tour de France titles.

“Reading Lance Armstrong’s book it’s not about the bike! I’m sure it will motivate me and pull me throu this time!

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