Visa lottery dashes hopes of thousands

The U.S. State Department mistakenly told more than 22,000 people that they had won a special U.S. visa lottery and the drawing would have to be redone.

Because of a computer programming error, 90 percent of the winners were selected from the first two days of applications rather than from the entire 30-day registration period. The problem had been fixed and the results of the new drawing from among the same 19.6 million people who applied were expected to be available around July 15. The news dashes the hopes of those who believed they were eligible for the next step in obtaining one of the coveted “green card” lottery visas.

The lottery gives the winners the opportunity to immigrate without having a family member or an employer sponsor them.

Alaska Senate Race Results

Alaska Senate Race Results: We’re bringing you news of the Midterm Election 2010 results from across America and if you want to see full results for each state so far see our previous article here for a simple and clear summary. We’ve also told how Proposition 19 has been defeated in California, and the results of the California election 2010.

However it’s time to turn our attention to what’s going on in the highly-divisive Alaska Senate Race which is neck and neck right now. Indeed it’s so close that it may be some weeks before an official result is known. Huma Khan and Leezel Tanglao over on ABC News report that projections show a Republican winner from write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski or Joe Miller the Tea Party candidate. Democrat Scott McAdams looks likely to finish in third place.

This story is likely to run and run as write-ins account for around 41% of the vote with Miller currently on 34% and McAdams 24%. The feud in the Republican Party means that if Murkowski wins it will be the first time since 1954 that a write-in candidate has won a Senate seat according to John Blackstone over on CBSNews.

However Joe Miller is a Tea Party favorite, backed by Sarah Palin but there’s always a chance if the vote is split that McAdams could take the victory instead. It’s certainly one to watch. What are your thoughts on the Alaska Senate race? We’d be interested to hear from you so please send us your comments.

Octopus Paul dies in his sleep

BERLIN: Paul the octopus, who shot to fame predicting the results of World Cup football matches in South Africa, has passed away.

He is said to have died peacefully in his tank at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany.

The eight-armed Octopus correctly predicted the winners of all Germany’s World Cup clashes, and then the final.

He did it by selecting one of two boxes, each loaded with a mussel food treat and marked on the outside with one of the teams.

Sea life centre manager Stefan Porwoll said: “His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself.”

Staff said there was nothing fishy about Paul’s death as common octopuses generally only live a couple of years.

“He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night of natural causes,” said Mr Porwoll.

He added: “We are consoled by the knowledge

US trip was successful, results will emerge soon: Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi returned to Pakistan after having strategic negotiations with the US.
He told that his trip to US was quite successful and the results will appear very soon. Talking to media at Lahore airport, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that during the negotiations, both the countries managed to understand each others view point and relationship of Pakistan and US will definitely improve a lot in future. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will give a briefing regarding his US trip in a press conference today afternoon.

US trip was successful, results will emerge soon: Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi returned to Pakistan after having strategic negotiations with the US.
He told that his trip to US was quite successful and the results will appear very soon. Talking to media at Lahore airport, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that during the negotiations, both the countries managed to understand each others view point and relationship of Pakistan and US will definitely improve a lot in future. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will give a briefing regarding his US trip in a press conference today afternoon.

Afghan poll body orders vote recounts in 7 provinces

KABUL: Afghanistan’s election body has ordered a partial recount of votes from seven of the country’s 34 provinces on suspicion of fraud, potentially delaying the results of a parliamentary poll further, an official said on Monday.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) may also push for the recount of ballots in other provinces after the Sept. 18 ballot, which was hit by widespread allegations of fraud.

“We have obtained evidences which show that the results were suspicious and ordered a recount,” Zekriya Barakzai, a commissioner for the government-appointed IEC, told Reuters.

Barakzai said the commission had also declared invalid all votes cast in five polling stations in eastern Khost province.

The election passed off relatively smoothly despite a Taliban threat to disrupt the poll, although hundreds of polling centres were unable to open

IMF delegation calls on finance minister

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Adnan Mazarei called on the Minister for Finance, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and discussed the issues of performance criteria and the prior actions pertaining to the fiscal and monetary factors.

During the meeting, the minister for finance appreciated the efforts of the IMF technical team and the support that have been provided since November 2008.

Adnan Mazarei informed Dr. Hafeez Shaikh about the results of technical discussion. It was agreed to continue the discussions on the programme review in the first week of August in Washington DC.

The secretary finance and the special secretary finance were also present during the meeting.

UTV conducts online survey among teenagers as part of marketing plan for Udaan

In a unique way to promote its forthcoming film Udaan, UTV Motion Pictures conducted a large scale online among youngsters in the age group of 12-19 years. The idea behind this survey was to get an insight into the minds of a teenager and understand their behavioural patterns. Moreover since Udaan talks about the story of a father-son relationship and depicts what a teenage mind goes through, the makers thought that conducting such a survey would be a great idea to create awareness for their film. The survey was conducted across major Indian cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi / NCR.

Following are some of the results of the survey:

Around 30% of teens said that if given a chance they would like to change their study stream / career

30% of the teens said that they were not comfortable talking to their parents about the problems faced by them

40% of boys had smoked in their teens

40% of girls and more than 50% of boys admitted to having consumed alcohol in their teens

More than half of the teens wanted the official age to drink to be lowered to 16

Around 45% of teens admitted to having stolen money from their parents without them knowing

2 out of every 3 boys admitted to having watched a porn film by the time they were 16 years old

1 out of every 4 girls admitted to having watched a porn film by the time they were 16 years old

1 out of every 3 boys admitted that they had bunked school to watch an adult film

Every second teen has already kissed someone of the opposite sex

15% of boys and girls acknowledged getting intimate with somebody in their school/ college loo

One out of every 5 teens (both boys and girls) claimed to have had sex

9 out of 10 boys and 7 out of 10 girls are ok with premarital sex

45% of teenage girls felt that if they got pregnant, they would go for an abortion without ever letting their parents know.

Nearly 1000 teenagers have already taken part in this survey and the makers UTV plan to incorporate the results on the posters, promos and other marketing campaign of their forthcoming film Udaan.

Simultala Vidyalaya Result 2010 On www.simultalavidhyalaya.com

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Simultala avasiya vidyalaya will declare their simultala vidyalaya result 2010 in short time. simultala vidhyalaya enounced their result on its official website. Student of simultala vidhyalaya can check result online by entering roll number.

You can check your results on www.simultalavidhyalaya.com

PSEB 10th Class Result 2010

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Punjab school education board declared their results on its official website.PSEB result of 10th class is published. You can check the result on its website but checking process is so easy. For checking the result students have to enter your class and roll number and then you can check the result:

For get result and getting more information , you can visit website www.pseb.ac.in

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