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State election results have taken Tarun Tejpal off prime time shows and the front pages. This is something of a relief.

On Nov 7-8, past midnight, after extensive partying at what was billed to be a THINK fest at a five star hotel in Goa, the feisty proprietor editor of Tehelka magazine followed one of his junior reporters, a friend of his daughter’s, and allegedly did things to her which under a revised law is tantamount to rape. Strangely, something similar happened the subsequent day too.

French scientists have dismissed the earlier findings about the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he was poisoned by radioactive polonium, his widow said.

The French experts arrived at a different conclusion than the earlier Swiss team that the traces of polonium-210 found on Arafat’s clothing were “of natural environmental origin,” Fox News reports.

The results contradict the 2012 findings by a Swiss lab, after which Suha Arafat filed a legal complaint in France seeking an investigation into whether he was murdered.

A new brain connectivity study has found striking differences in the neural wiring of men and women which justifies some of the commonly-held beliefs about their behavior.

The Penn Medicine brain imaging study has shown a stark difference in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis for the different cognitive strengths in men and women.

A Nobel Prize winner in economics has warned that sharp rises in equity and property prices could lead to a financial bubble. Robert Shiller, who won the award with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen for research into market prices and asset bubbles, said that US stock market and the property market in Brazil were areas of concern. According to the Guardian, Shiller told Der Spiegel magazine that he was not yet sounding the alarm, but in many countries stock exchanges are at a high level and prices have risen sharply in some property markets, which could end badly.

The campaign of Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily has crossed the boundaries of India and it is reaching overseas. The NRIs in the Middle East have promised to support his campaign. Mr. Khudad Khan, Managing Director of Adride group, UAE and Qatar and Chairman of Inayath Millath Well care Charitable Trust has arranged Hyderabadi seminar in Dubai in which Mr. Zahid Ali Khan participated as the Chief Guest. He was felicitated by the Hyderabadis. Mr.

Whether the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Tower of Babel, humankind has always been reaching for the sky. But do you know about the crucial technologies that led to the development of the first skyscraper.

Emporis, the international provider of building data, looks back over more than 100 years of skyscraper history and presents the towers that have so far been entitled to proudly bear the title of “World’s Tallest Building.”

Firoz Fatma from Saharanpur took home a jackpot of Rs.1 crore from the show, hosted by Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Her victory will be showcased on the season’s last episode Sunday. Firoz Fatma, A handout image.

Firoz Fatma from Saharanpur has emerged the first female crorepati of the 2013 edition of popular reality TV game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati” (KBC).

She took home a jackpot of Rs.1 crore from the show, hosted by Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Her victory will be showcased on the season’s last episode Sunday.

The week-long ‘Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival’ that opened at the historic Salar Jung Museum concluded last night with spectacular ‘Quli : Dilon Ka Shahzaada’ staged to a packed house at The Trident. Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation’s globally acclaimed play based on the love-legend of founder of Hyderabad Quli Qutub Shah and his beloved Bhagmati was a fitting finale to the prestigious theatre extravaganza. Mohammad Ali Baig stole the show, and many more hearts with a majestic performance as Quli.

Rajya Sabha member Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday underlined the importance of India having a sustained dialogue with Pakistan to resolve issues pending for decades.

Delivering the Foundation Day lecture at Mount Carmel College here, Aiyar said an average Pakistani citizen had no more a personal quarrel with Indians than people here had with them. “They have a lot of affection for Indians and the Indian culture. The most beautiful Shiva temple I have been to is near Clifton beach in Karachi,” he said.

Yousufguda Police Station registered a case in which a married couple indulged into a conflict on naming their newly born daughter. The husband was a non-Muslim and he wanted to name his daughter according to Hindu system whereas his Muslim wife wanted to name her baby according to Islamic Law. It is clear that the marriage of a Muslim girl with a Hindu husband is illegal.

Did you know that Mughal emperor Shah Jahan had a recipe book? Ever wondered what the earliest Indian atlas looked like? Head to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in the national capital to get a peek at these.

“The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture,” is an exhibition mounted by publishing house Roli Books in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and the British Library, London.

The families who neglect the movements of their sons and daughters have to face the bad days when their children tarnish their image in society. The carelessness of the parents in educating and training them in Islamic Ideology results in waywardness. In the name of modernity and development, the parents have given free hands to their sons and daughters. In the emerging developmental activities of the metro city of Hyderabad has resulted in shameless activities of boys and girls.

Back pain can be fatal for a happy and healthy sex life, according to a new survey conducted in Britain.

The survey, conducted on 2056 people, has revealed that 14 percept of them, have stopped indulging in physical intimacy due to effects of back pain, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Back pain also causes poor mental health, confessed a quarter of the respondents, while a third confessed the pain made them short tempered.

Around 15 percent of them said the pain led them to cry at work, and 12 percent found themselves arguing with family, friends and colleagues.

At a time when Jawaharlal Nehru’s policies are being questioned by some, an authority on him said today that India’s first prime minister was “one of the world’s greatest visionaries”.

I would argue that Nehru was one of the world’s and this country’s greatest visionaries, at a time when the world
was changing rapidly and radically…,” Prof Judith M Brown said.

She was delivering the 45th Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture ‘From prison to Teen Murti: The making of a Prime

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Firoz Merchant the chairman of “Pure gold” group is ranked 26th of the 50 richest Indians in the Gulf, but to Dubai’s prison population he’s their potential “guardian angel”. He has spent more than Dirhams 5.2 million securing the release of about 4,500 prisoners since 2011 -with no sign of slowing down.

He says “the Prisoner not the only one in prison, but the whole family is in prison because he is the (sole earner).”

According to the research conducted by captain Pandu Ranga Reddy, a Hyderabadi girl, Ms. Surayya Tayyabji designed the national flag. It was accepted by the Constituent Assembly on 22nd July 1947. It is very regrettable that in all the text books the name of P.Venkayya is given as the person who designed the National flag. Famous National newspapers, authors and historians did not mention Mr. Venkayya’s name. It can be said with confidence that Ms. Surayya Tayyabji got Ashok Chakra fixed in the center of the flag.

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The Gujarat pogrom is the elephant in BJP’s parlour. It is the unbreakable genetic connection between 2002 and the present that makes it clear that a Narendra Modi prime ministership would be disastrous for democratic and secular India

Central Wakf Council constituted a monitoring committee consisting of Justice Hyder Abbas Raza, Justice Billal Nazuki, Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, Advocate and Mr. Syed Iqbal Shaik to monitor the legal case of wakf property pertaining to Dargah Husain Shah Wali.

A meeting of Central Wakf Council was held under the Chairmanship of Mr. K. Rahman Khan, Minister for Minority Affairs. The Council expressed its view that it is a very sensitive issue and an important case hence there should not be any lapses.

Lamenting slow pace of work in computerisation of records of Wakf Board properties across the country, Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan today said that his ministry is exploring the possibility of outsourcing the task to some other agency.

Khan, addressing chairmans and CEOs of different Waqf Boards during the national conference on Waqf (Amendment) Act 2013, said that the Phase I of the computerisation scheme was to be completed during the 11th Plan itself, but it has been found that the progress work is very slow and the work is not completed yet.

Mahatma Gandhi’s over eight-decade old ‘charkha’, one of his most prized possessions that he used in Yerwada Jail during the ‘Quit India Movement’, was today auctioned in the UK for a whopping 110,000 pounds, nearly double the expected price.

Gandhi’s last will also sold for 20,000 pounds at the specialist sale of historical documents and artefacts by the Mullock’s Auction house in Shropshire.

Coming to the rescue of an aged woman, a Family Court here ordered her son to pay a sum of Rs 5000 per month for her maintenance and medical expenses.

Additional Family Court Judge TCS Raja Chokkalingam ordered that Rose Francis pay Rs 4000 for the maintenance and Rs 1000 towards his mother Rosemary Angelina’s medical expenses.

The court said the maintenance costs shall be paid with effect from November 4 last year and before fifth of every month, while allowing the plea by Rosemary who submitted that her son and daughter-in-law were ill-treating and not taking care of her.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today said the Palestinian refusal to recognise the Jewish people’s right to a homeland is the root of the ongoing conflict in the region.

Netanyahu’s remarks came a day after the Palestinians dubbed ‘Balfour declaration’, calling for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, the “biggest political crime in contemporary history.”

“That declaration recognised the right of the Jewish people to its own homeland in Israel,” Netanyahu today said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting.