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A new study has revealed that Britain’s current favorite baby names are Muhammad for boys and Sophia for girls.

There has been a surge in Arabic names generally, with Nur a new entry in the girls’ top 100, jumping straight to number 29, the Guardian reported.

While, Maryam has risen 59 places to number 35. Whereas, the highest new entries were Nur, Emilia and Gracie.

Omar, Ali, and Ibrahim are new to the boys’ top 100. Teddy was the biggest climber within the top 100. The highest new entries were Kian and Jonathan.

A total of 31,966 people tested positive for AIDS in last six years in Madhya Pradesh, according to MP AIDS Control Society.
Of the total number, 60.50 per cent constitute male and experts said men contracted HIV (Human Immunodeficiency
Virus) primarily due to unsafe sex.

Indore was among places where the spread of disease was high in the state.

“Men have fallen prey to the disease mainly due to unsafe sex practice,” city-based government Maharaja Yeswantrao hospital’s Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Department Head Dr Shivshanker Sharma told PTI today.

A leading Information Technology (IT) services company is using a programme developed in India to create jobs worldwide and train and place minority women in high-quality IT jobs in 10 cities across America.

After its “impressive work” in India, Mexico and the US, Aliso Viejo, California-based UST Global, is planning to launch additional programmes in Africa in 2015, according to its India-born Chief Executive Officer Sajan Pillai.

Faced with acute poverty and ailing, aged parents, Vadodara-resident Chandni Rajgaur was forced to put her dignity on the line and advertise her body on ‘sale’ on Facebook.

Talking to Zee Media, the former model and social worker said that she was forced to take such a desperate step due to the condition of her family. Chandni said, “My mother has been ailing from paralysis for long, and even my father, who provided for the family, recently met with an accident and has been bedridden.”

“I have no means to provide for them and there is no one I can ask for help,” she added.

Re-uniting wandering mentally ill women with their families is ironically the reason why many of them end up homeless again, says an award-winning study by an Indian-American researcher.

Homeless, mentally ill women in India are victims of a vicious cycle, said study author Anita Rao from Loyola University’ Stritch School of Medicine in the US.

During psychotic episodes, they wander away from home and wind up in homeless shelters.

“En Dino Muzaffarnagar”, a documentary by Shubhradeep Chakravorty and Meera Chaudhary on the riots that engulfed the Uttar Pradesh district in 2013, considers whether the riots were premeditated, and executed for political gain. The Central Board of Film Certification has refused to allow it for public screening. With the Delhi Court directing the Board to give “detailed reasons” for its opposition next week, our writer examines the documentary’s message and the fate of some of its predecessors.

Nepal is ready to “mediate” between India and Pakistan to break the deadlock in their ties by bringing the leaders of the two countries together during the SAARC Summit, Foreign Minister Mahendra Pandey today said.

“Nepal could mediate between India and Pakistan on the sidelines of the Summit,” Pandey said during a talk show on News 24 channel.

“The Prime Ministers of both the countries were in favour of improving the deteriorating relations and Nepal will take the initiative,” said the foreign minister of the host country.

A new survey has revealed that middle-aged people, especially the ones over 50, regret marrying the wrong person the most.

The survey, which was commissioned by a lifestyle website Silversurfers for the over-50s, on the most common regrets found that 23 per cent believed they hadn’t seen enough of the world, and 19 per cent said they did not save enough money for retirement, other responses hinted at heartache, the Independent reported.

As many as 2,000 Britons have travelled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS), four times more than the official estimates, a Muslim British parliamentarian has claimed.

Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, a constituency with a significant number of Muslims, has
suggested this was a fourfold underestimation of the number of British jihadists fighting in the region.

“The authorities say there are 500 British jihadists but the likely figure is at least three to four times that,” he told ‘The Telegraph’.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s long separated wife Jashodaben, 62, broke her silence on Friday said that she wants to live with her husband, but she said she don’t want to impose herself on him.

Speaking to Media, Jashodaben said “Agar wo lene aaye tho mai tayyar hoon” (If he comes and take me, I am all ready).
Jashodaben is a retired Govt Teacher lives with his elder brothers in north Gujrat. She never met her husband even after he rose as a prime minister.

Archeological Survey of India, Delhi Circle is organizing World Heritage Program from 19th November to 25th November from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The visitors during this time will be able to witness the grandeur of the Moghal Emperor Shah Jahan. They will be able to see a glimpse of Jahan Ara Begum and Roshan Ara Begum, the daughters of Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. Jahan Ara Begum was the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan. Her tomb is in Nizamuddin locality of South Delhi. Roshan Ara Begum was the poetess. The visitors will be able to see these princesses welcoming them.

A new report has revealed that some 168 million children around the world are still engaged in some form of child labor .

According to UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center has published comprehensive analysis of children’s rights in 190 countries around the world, 74 percent of the countries no longer allow children to engage in hazardous work, once legal exceptions are taken into account.

Question time now: Why were we taught history (correct or distorted) of Akbar or Rana Pratap or that Mountain rat? When our own Hyderabad History was concealed / Hidden / distorted? Why were we NOT taught our own history in on
schools at all .. ?
What kind of conspiracy was this and by who?

Fareed Adaab,

The Dynasty was still ruling and ended very abruptly.

HISTORY is always recorded after an event.

The five-stage election in Jammu and Kashmir will commence next week and the entire process will last nearly a month.

This time it would seem that the party most nervous would be the ruling National Conference which, by all accounts is floundering, on lack lustre performance.

Its ally, the Congress, has already lost the race. The PDP might have felt it had its best chance this time but an aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party threatens to upset many calculations.

A Chinese pair with combined age of 217 is the ” oldest couple in the world,” it has been revealed.

The 109-years-old Ping Muhu and his 108-yearsold wife, Zhang Xinniu are two gray-haired lovebirds in China, whose combined age spans more than two centuries, the New York Post reported.

The pair has more than 60 children and grandchildren.

Muhu, who recently celebrated his 109th birthday, told Central European News that although it’s a bit hard to keep track of them all, especially with his sight not being what it was, but they certainly don’t suffer from a lack of affection.

Autohona is the brainchild of two young entrepreneurs Shashank Chintapenta and Harshavardhan jain, a concept which aims at bridging the gap between the customers who take an auto to commute in the twin cities and the auto drivers and avoid the struggle customers have to go through to engage an auto.

With 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world’s largest youth population despite having a smaller population than China, a latest UN report said on Tuesday.

China is second with 269 million young people, followed by Indonesia (67 million), the US (65 million) and Pakistan (59 million), Nigeria with 57 million, Brazil with 51 million, and Bangladesh with 48 million, the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) State of the World’s Population report said.

India has nearly 14.3 million people, including children, “trapped” in modern-day slavery, ranking fifth in a list of countries brought out by the Global Slavery Index 2014, followed by Pakistan and with Mauritania topping the list.

According to the survey by anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free, 1.1409 percent of the people in India are in some form of slavery — forced labour or victims of trafficking, debt bondage, sexual exploitation for money and forced or servile marriage.

With wearable technologies like smart headphones and watches becoming popular, about 82 per cent adults in India have started using them for work-related activities as well, says a recent study.

A whopping 82 per cent of adults in India have worn technologies such as headsets, smart badges and bar-code
scanners for work-related activities, according to Kronos ‘Wearables at Work’ survey.

Countries where adults have adopted wearable technology for personal use appear to use wearables for work-related

Congress today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “cheating” people on the black money issue, and said though he had made tall claims on repatriating the ill-gotten money in the run-up to elections the NDA government is doing a flip-flop after assuming power.

“Why Modi has cheated people on the issue of black money? The government has no idea about the amount of money
stashed in foreign banks.

“But in the run-up to Lok Sabha polls, while a yoga guru claimed that Rs 400 lakh crore were deposited outside the

(Syeda Iram) November is diabetes awareness month. It was founded 1991 by the international diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization to fight diabetes around the world. It’s logo a blue circle represent life and health.

Jawahar Lal Nehru’s legacy is beyond any political formation and will continue to be relevant for the generations to come. He belongs to the entire nation and his ideals are cherished to this date by Indians belonging to all groups.

Nehru, who shaped the destiny of the country after Independence, continues to be relevant several decades after his death.

A new study has revealed that couples who live out their relationships on Facebook or Twitter get into messy interactions after breakup on social media.

The researchers from Finland, Qatar, and the United States noted the types of words couples used pre-breakup and post-breakup, showing that a lot of dirty laundry gets aired on Twitter and said that they were interested to see if there would be a noticeable change in tone when one partner would message the other, either before or after the breakup.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says daughters are the reason of happiness of every house and they should be treated with care and warmth.

The 72-year-old actor spoke about the importance of daughter in one’s life while describing his experience of shooting for for Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Piku’, where he plays a father.

They ran away to Bangalore, they ran again to Kochi, they have been running for 11 months now, they don’t want to run anymore. From the day a Hindu engineer and a Muslim dental student from a town near Kerala’s northern city of Kozhikode decided to move in together, their life has become a nightmare haunted by familiar ghosts: religious fundamentalists, supari gangs, a court case and now Internet trolls.