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Serial - film actress Sangeetha Mohan (29) was arrested for drunken driving yesterday. The police patrolling team stopped the WagonR car she was driving from Pazhavangadi near the Big Bazaar. The actress first refused to open the door but when the police team led by medical college circle inspector Suresh Kumar, who was on night duty, tried to break the glass, she opened it.

ICICI Bank today asked its customers not to panic, saying rumours about the financial strength of the bank are baseless and malicious. ICICI Bank is aware that rumours are being repeatedly being circulated in certain centres regarding the financial strength of the bank.

"The bank states that these rumours are baseless and malicious," ICICI Bank CEO and Managing Director K V Kamath said today.

The House has voted overwhelmingly to approve a landmark pact that would allow the U.S. to provide nuclear materials to India. The deal still faces major obstacles in the Senate. The prospects for passage before President George W. Bush leaves office in January are uncertain.

The Kozhikode Corporation is planning to introduce a new system for collection of property tax in the city, based on the carpet area of the building. Councillors are expected to give approval to the recommendations of the Finance Standing Committee, which took this decision in January this year, at the City Corporation Council meeting here today.

Type 2 diabetes, caused due to defects in insulin action and dysfunction of a specific cell in the body, is emerging as a major health concern in India, according to experts. More youngsters are falling prey to the disease, which is normally seen among people over 40 years of age, they said today at a conference on 'Clinical Genomics'.

Vint Cerf, the father of the internet has warned that the web will run out of IP addresses by 2010, saying the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other. Vint Cerf, the "father" of the web, said when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and many computers will be unable to go online.

Swimming in chlorinated pools 'increases asthma risk five-fold', suggests a study, published in the European Respiratory Journal. Researchers led by Prof Alfred Bernard, of the Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, showed that children who swim frequently in chlorinated pools are 'five times' more likely to develop asthma.

The first case after the Senior Citizens Act came into force last year, a 58-year-old man was taken into custody for neglecting his aged mother and cases have been registered against his five siblings at Kottiyam near here, police said.