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It may be a little to believe but nonetheless its true. The Food and Supply Department has recovered heap of bones from a biscuit and rusk factory in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, while conducting raid on Monday.

Confirming the news, City Magistrate, AK Srivastav said, “We conducted raid based on some inputs, have recovered heap of bones,” as per ANI.

He also said that the factory was indulging in child labour. “Children below 14 years were working inside,” Srivastav added.

The year just ending will go down in history as the one which brought the curtain down on Andhra Pradesh, which has existed for 58 years, and the one which fulfilled long-cherished aspirations of people of Telangana for their own state.

Telangana came into existence as India’s 29th state on June 2 following some dramatic developments during the passage of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill in parliament.

Mirza Ghalib, whose contribution to Urdu literature was perhaps as significant as that of Shakespeare to English, was born here on this day over 200 years ago. The Taj city on Saturday not only forgot to celebrate his birthday but also does not have a decent memorial to the poet, activists said.

Despite repeated demands to name a road or an auditorium after the famed poet, the municipal corporation has not responded and Agra University has turned down a demand to set up a Ghalib chair to promote research and work in Urdu literature.

Women’s safety continued to be a burning issue in 2014 prompting Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry to propose amendments in a juvenile justice legislation besides announcing setting up of rape crisis centres across India.

However, as the year drew to a close, there was another blot on the capital’s image with the alleged rape of a finance executive by a cab driver which triggered outrage and set alarm bells about women’s safety.

A few years ago, I was in Chennai in the cabin of the chairman of a public sector bank. We hadn’t even exchanged pleasantries when a call was put through and the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) spoke in Telugu, not knowing that I understood the language. The person at the other end apparently, was a union minister. The discussion was about helping a company tide over a loan repayment crisis and the stock answer of the CMD was “Ayipotundi, Sir” (It will be done, Sir).

(Mehr Tarar is former Op-ed Editor, Daily Times, Pakistan)

I drop my son to school every morning.

I have been doing it for the last 13 years, and I do it even now when he’s almost 15.

As he steps out of the car with a bright smile, I blow Ayat-ul-Kursi on him, watching him enter the school gate. I worry about his safety without even being aware that I worry about his safety. No, it’s not because I feel unsafe in Pakistan, but because he is the most precious person in the world to me, and until I see him back with me, I feel a part of me is not there.

Her struggle to fight with the odds started at the age of three itself when she was first infected by polio which squeezed out her strength in both legs.

But this limb weakness surely did not take out even an iota of determination to reach acme in academics as she kept achieving every goal with even higher percentage.

Mahajabeen Madarkar, native of Vijayapura district who is now pursuing Masters in Dermatology from Fr. Muller’s Medical College, Mangalore, is no less than a synonym to dedication and hard work by countering her disability.

2014 will go down as a watershed year in the geo-political history of Andhra Pradesh, marked the end of an era of a state that remained one for close to 57 years and the beginning of a new era in which the state got a re-birth.

The first linguistic state of the country, Andhra became Andhra Pradesh in 1956 with the amalgamation of parts of the erstwhile Hyderabad state.

2014 saw the “de-merger” of those same parts, with the creation of a new state called Telangana, leaving Andhra Pradesh to its pre-1956 shape.

Naheed Syed built a career re-imagining the relationship between information technology and business management. As a veteran IT solutions leader in the banking, airline and telecommunications industries, she has managed major change in complex industries.

“I started in the banking industry in IT infrastructure, security and systems automation. After nine years in banking, I moved into the airline industry, and then into telecommunications, as wireless technology was becoming more prevalent,” says Syed, founder and CEO of Global Resource Management Inc. (GRMI).

India scripting space history with its mission to Mars in its maiden attempt marked the high point of variegated developments from Karnataka during 2014 that also saw a resurgent BJP and rising sexual assaults of minor girls in schools with the year ending on a terror tinge.

On September 24, India joined an elite club of three nations when its low-cost spacecraft was successfully placed in orbit around Mars in its very first attempt.

A new survey has revealed the top 10 reasons why couples stay in an unhappy marriage and avoid getting divorced.

According to the survey of 2,000 married parents, four in ten are currently in a marriage they aren’t completely happy with – but some have too much to lose, while 37 percent admitted they have held off on divorce due to concerns about their children, the Mirror reported.

One in four unhappy couples are only planning to stay together until their kids grow up – so they don’t have to grow up with the trauma of a divorce.

Social media such as Facebook may not only be addictive, it could also be associated with impulse control disorders, including substance abuse, a new study has warned.

Julia Hormes from the University at Albany led a team of researchers that assessed the addictive nature of social media
– specifically Facebook – in a sample of undergraduate students, 18 years or older.

The study found an estimated 10 per cent of users experience what Hormes’ classified as ‘disordered social
networking use’.

The first phase of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) politics was marked by the targeting of mosques and churches. After the advent of Narendra Modi, the scene has become quieter. In fact, the Ram temple issue has been put on hold and even the fulminations against “love jihad”, the supposedly sinister plan of Muslim youths to marry Hindu girls, have faded away, at least for the time being.

Two years after a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist was brutally gang-raped on a moving bus on Dec 16, 2012, an incident that sent shock waves across the nation and gave India a bad name, the family of the victim is still waiting for the four convicted rapists to be sent to the gallows.

After the convicts moved the Supreme Court, it stayed the execution of their death
sentences. With only three-four effective hearings in the case by the apex court since March 2014, the case is expected to take some time to reach its logical conclusion.

Recipients prefer less personalised cards which allow more versatile usage, a University of Cincinnati study has found.

“Givers often fail to anticipate that the gifts they prefer to give are not necessarily the ones recipients prefer to receive,” explained Mary Steffel from the University of Cincinnati.

Here are some tips from Steffel to make sure your gift is well received.

1. Personalising gifts does not guarantee appreciation, the “perfect” gift card might never get used.

Researchers found the tendency for givers to select overly specific gifts can contribute to gift non-use.

BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj was today at the centre of a controversy when he described Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “patriot”, sparking outrage following which he retracted.

The MP from Unnao said, “Godse was an aggrieved person. He may have done something by mistake but was no an anti- national. He was a patriot.”

When his remarks triggered a controversy with demands for action, he retracted saying, “I do not consider him a rashtra bhakta (patriot). I might have said something by mistake.”

If one goes by a survey, most single Indians can’t do without their mobile phones.

The survey, by online matrimony platform www.shaadi.com, was conducted on a total of 6,500 respondents in the age group of 23 to 35 years, to understand how crucial a mobile phone is for unmarried men and women.

An astonishing 84.6 percent people, when asked if they can live without their mobile phones, said “no, life is impossible for them without their mobile phones”. On the other hand, 7.3 percent replied “they can live without their mobile phones” and 8.1 percent said “may be”.

The threat of marriages hitting rock bottom in 10 years time is fairly real, says a study, adding that if a couple can stay together for another five years, the missing romance may rekindle again.

For the study, lead researcher Spencer James from the Brigham Young University in the US collected data from over 2,000 women.

The data, collected from women born between 1957 and 1964, revealed that 66 percent of marriages started on a happy note but ran into trouble over time, Express.co.uk reported.

Hyderabad has had the unique honor of inviting and promoting many foreigners to such an extent that most of them stayed on and never left. A few returned back to their native countries but only after very successfully completing the tasks for which they were initially brought in.One such great personality I would like to elaborate upon in this post is, British Muslim Novelist, School Principal, Civil servant and Scholar, Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall.(7.4.1875-19.5.1936, aged 61).Few people know that Pickthall translated The Holy Quran under the patronage of HEH
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As per the records of Investigating Agencies and Judiciary, Gujarat records more than 250 paternity test cases annually and surprisingly, data reveals that 98% of cases confirm suspicions.

Police said that most cases are financially motivated, men opt for it if they want divorce and if they doubts about the paternity of their children. On the other hand, women opt for the test in an alimony cases.The DNA division of the Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS), Gandhinagar, works for the tests that are routed through the police and courts as reported in Times of undia.

Digital relationships are resulting in the collapse of family ties, it would seem.

As more and more youngsters and newly-weds are logging on to e-relationships, family life appears to be indulging more and more in what is being called ‘digital infidelity’.

The virus has apparently left many a couple looking for solutions and programmes to reboot their matrimonial life, said CRISP president Kumar Jahgirdar.

Bangalore-based NGO Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) is working for gender neutral family laws.

The thyroid gland is a butterfly shaped gland situated at the root of the neck. It produces a hormone – thyroxine, which is responsible for maintaining the normal metabolism of the body.

How serious are nodules in the thyroid?

The oldest litigant in Babri Masjid case, Mohammad Hashim Ansari, has declared that he doesn’t want to pursue the matter any further and wants ‘Ram Lalla’ (infant Ram) to be free.

Expressing unhappiness over the politicisation of the Babri case, Ansari, who has been fighting the case since 1959, said he will not attend any protest meeting on Dec 6 to mark the anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition.

Speaking to the mediapersons, Ansari said that the people who are reaping political benefits are staying in bungalows whereas ‘Ram Lalla’ is living in a tent.

US health officials today released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done despite opposition from advocates who decry the pain, bleeding and risk of infections to newborns.

The guidelines stop short of telling parents to get their sons circumcised. That is a personal decision that may involve religious or cultural preferences, said Dr. Jonathan Mermin of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

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“Can you go to Bhopal immediately? Something big seems to have happened. Many people have died. You can help out our local bureau and return after two or three days.”

This was U.R. Kalkur, a marvel of a journalist who was the deputy general manager of UNI. He spoke hours after the Bhopal gas leak of Dec 2-3, 1984, whose bloody magnitude wasn’t clear then but which turned out to be the world’s worst industrial disaster.