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A case of assault and threat to murder has been registered against the parents of the 22-year-old girl who was at the centre of the ‘love jihad’ controversy and has gone back on her statement that she was gang-raped and forcibly converted.

Two days after the girl claimed that there is a threat to her life from her parents, police registered a case under section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code against them, SSP Meerut Omkar Singh said.

Feeling of loneliness drives people to Facebook, according to a new study.

Researchers found that compared to non-lonely people, lonely people spend more time on Facebook.

Lonely individuals who are shy or have low social support may turn to Facebook to compensate for their lack of social
skills and/or social networks in face-to-face settings, the study found.

Hayeon Song, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, analysed data from
relevant existing studies to conclude that there is a relationship between Facebook use and loneliness.

Mr. Mohammed Khizar, President of Universal Islamic Research Center told that an Audio campaign is being launched for 2-3 minutes on Watsapp and Facebook. It is the responsibility of the Muslims to conduct such programs to eradicate misunderstandings of the non-Muslims about Islam. Such program could be held in function halls and other places. The programs could be conducted in regional language.

Salman Khan is one of the most eligible bachelors in the country before Rahul gandhi. But the hunk of an actor doesn’t really seem to be in a mood to enter matrimony in fact he is now a days keen on adopting childrens …

But the actor did intend to get married in the past!

Rekha, who was on Salman’s show ‘Bigg Boss’ season 8 to promote her film ‘Super Nani’, said that the actor wanted to get married to her.

Scientists said today they may have unravelled how chronic stress leads to heart attack and stroke: triggering overproduction of disease-fighting white blood cells which can be harmful in excess.

Surplus cells clump together on the inner walls of arteries, restricting blood flow and encouraging the formation
of clots that block circulation or break off and travel to another part of the body.

When Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his Indian counter part Narendra Modi on May 27 in New Delhi, there was no mention of “Kashmir” in the briefing by both sides. Pakistan Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz did tell the media later that it was discussed but officially it was not confirmed as part of the 50-minute long meeting. This did raise eye brows in Kashmir about how the policy on this contentious issue was being followed.

Keeping its pleasing past performance, Bihar’s Super 30, which ready students from underprivileged families free of cost for IIT joint entrance exam (IIT- JEE), pioneered 27 of its 30 students to crack the coveted examination on Thursday.

The institute known for its innovative coaching, founded by mathematician Anand Kumar 13 years ago, has until now enabled 308 students out of the total 360 to make it to the IITs.

Indian law enforcement and justice authorities have shirked their responsibility to fight sex attacks, a UN child rights watchdog said today, amid uproar over the horrific gang-rape and lynching of two girls. “There has been a dereliction of duty in relation to rape cases,” said Benyam Mezmur, deputy chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

(Kuldip Nayar) When Narendra Modi broke down during the election campaign while hailing the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), a pro-Hindu outfit, as his mother, I thought it was an emotional outburst.

And I felt assured when he said after becoming India’s prime minister that he would take along with him all the 125 crore Indians on the path to development.

Fasting can reduce cholesterol levels in prediabetic people over extended period of time, according to a new research.

The research on periodic fasting has identified a biological process in the body that converts bad cholesterol
in fat cells to energy, thus combating diabetes risk factors.

Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, noticed that
after 10 to 12 hours of fasting, the body starts scavenging for other sources of energy throughout the body to sustain itself.

Bangalore sees suicide record on Friday the 13th

By Aravind Gowda in Bangalore

Bangalore often referred to as India’s ‘ suicide Capital’, Bangalore lived up to the infamous sobriquet with 11 people, including five women and two girls, committing suicide on Friday.

This is a dubious record for the city as it saw so many people committing suicide on the same day for different reasons.

Revathi, 15, hanged herself because she was finding it difficult to learn English. Kokila, 14, committed suicide because of some health issue.

It is one of the most enduring marriages in Bollywood but Dilip Kumar reveals that though aware of her `crush` on him, he annoyed Saira Banu by refusing to work with her in films as he thought she was too young to pair with him on screen.

The actress, who fell in love with Kumar after watching his 1952 film `Aan`, finally married the man of her dreams in 1966 when he was in his early 40s while she was 22.

A home-schooled 10-year-old Indian-origin genius has surprised one and all by becoming one of the youngest ever in the US to graduate high school.

Tanishq Abraham, a native of Sacramento, California, received his high school diploma at a private ceremony at California Auto Museum on Sunday.

Home-schooled since the age of 7, Abraham passed a state exam in March that certified that he had met the appropriate academic standards to receive his diploma.

A new study has revealed that around 33 percent of women suffer sexual violence during and after a period of conflict and around 29 percent reported that their husbands or partners were the perpetrators.

The study also established that total of 10 percent women said that the culprit was someone other than an intimate partner and only 0.3 percent identified an armed combatant.

Telangana Governor ESL Narsimhan has made it clear that in order to make Hyderabad a safe zone and an attractive destination, law and order would be the top priority of the State government.

The thousands of Rohingya Muslims still flooding out of Myanmar’s Rakhine state two years after violence erupted there are facing increasing abuse and exploitation, the UN refugee agency warned today. Two waves of deadly communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine in 2012 left some 200 people dead and around 140,000 displaced, mainly Rohingya.

“Two years after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, thousands of people are still leaving
by boat from the Bay of Bengal,” UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva.

With objectionable posts on social networking sites triggering violence over the past week, the Maharashtra government is mulling action against not only those who upload them but also against those who “like” and forward them, state’s Home Minister R R Patil said today.

The move follows the killing of an information technology professional Mohsin Shaikh in Pune last Monday after derogatory pictures of warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji and Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray were uploaded by unknown people on Facebook.

28- year-old Mohsin Shaikh’s family comprised of 5 members. He was the sole bread earner for his family. With dreams of a better living he had come to Pune from Solapur. He got his younger brother a job in Pune. With tears welling up in his eyes, Mohsin’s younger brother Mubeen says “We cannot believe that Bhaijaan is no more with us, he helped me find a job in a garments shop, we lived together in a rented house at Hadapsar in Pune.” Mubeen Shaikh informed that Mohsin had done a certificate course in hardware networking and was working with Ujwal Enterprises.

New details have emerged in the case of the Pune Muslim techie who was killed by a right-wing Hindu mob. An SMS exchanged by the killers has confirmed that Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh was targetted for being a Muslim.

A Texas company, TrackingPoint Inc., has developed a firearm equipped with Google Glass technology that could help one hit target behind corners.

TrackingPoint said in a statement that when paired with wearable technology, first precision-guided firearm (PGF) provides unprecedented benefits to shooters, such as the ability to shoot from positions that provide exceptional cover, the Washington Times reported.

They added that without PGF technology, such positions is going to be extremely difficult to fire from. (ANI)

The two teenage girls who were raped and hanged from the village mango tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district last week had gone to relieve themselves in the field, highlighting the sore lack of toilets in millions of homes across India. But the question that an NGO is raising adds to the intrigue behind the gruesome crime – toilets had been constructed in the area, but they apparently have “vanished”.

In a cross between the kebabs of Lahore and Lucknow, the tanginess of the North-West and the mildly spicy Awadhi came on the same platter in the unique ‘Nawab ki pasand’ fusion food festival here.

“From Komal Gandhar, defining the raga in the morning, to Jugalbandi our endeavour has been to take the foodie into a culinary expedition from the Nizam land to the empire of Nawabs in Awadh and Pashtun land through fusion kebabs hunting centuries old recipes of royal kichens,” reputed Mughal cuisine chef Debashis Kundu told PTI here.

Rapes in Uttar Pradesh no longer shock – neither the political masters, nor the government and not even the people. Even as there was a national outcry against the recent twin gang-rape, brutal assault and ghastly murder by hanging from a tree in Badayun’s Katra Sadatganj, forcing even the UN to sit up and take note, the powers that be in the state are unfazed.

Following are the major events in the history of Telangana, which Monday came into being as 29th state in India.

1948: Indian Army annexes princely state of Hyderabad, which comprised different regions including Telangana.

Nov 1, 1956: Telangana merged with Andhra State, which was carved out of Madras State, to form Andhra Pradesh, a united state for Telugu-speaking people.

1969: ‘Jai Telangana’ movement for separate statehood to Telangana began. Over 300 people killed in police firing.

Restlessness, curiosity sparked among the people of Hyderabad when the fake news of Ex-Constable Abdul Qadeer’s death spread like a wildfire. He is serving life sentence for killing his superior, Assistant Commissioner of Police of Chatrinaka Sattaiah for his alleged bias against Muslims during communal riots in early 90s.