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Minor British Sikh girls sexually abused by gangs of Asian men who befriend them over a period of time usually do not report the crime to authorities, according to a new investigation by the BBC.

The probe found that in many cases, the men deceive the girls into believing they are Sikh to gain their trust.

“Desperate to hide their secret for fear of bringing shame to their families, girls are often forced to leave home,” the BBC’s “Inside Out” programme reported.

India has agreed to hand over two important recordings of Pakistan’s famous Independence Day speech given by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1947.

In an interview, All India Radio Director General Leeladhar Mandloi revealed that the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given a green signal for handing over the recordings to Pakistan, the Daily Times reports.

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation had earlier requested India for the recordings.

Jinnah was the founder of Pakistan’s August 11, 1947 address to Pakistan’s Constituent Assembly delivered in Karachi. (ANI)

A person’s intensity of Facebook use can be predicted by activity in a reward-related area of the brain, according to a new study.

The study, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, relate brain activity to social media use.

Meshi and colleagues observed activity in the brain’s reward circuitry, the nucleus accumbens, in 31 participants.

(Seema Mustafa)US President Barack Obama is set to do a ‘Bush’ in West Asia. In what could be the first war based on little more than a U-Tube video, Obama is preparing to invade Syria and destroy yet another sophisticated country in the region. He has clearly decided not to wait for the report of a United Nations team investigating charges of the use of chemicals against civilians by the Syrian government, maintaining that this would not be “credible.” So the US, past master in cooking facts, is collecting its own ‘evidence’ to justify the decision to invade Syria.

The Islamic Art and Calligraphy Exhibition organized by Siasat Urdu Daily at Salarjung Museum will continue till 1st September. It will be open for public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. including Fridays. Yesterday, more than 6000 persons visited the exhibition. Students from Shaheen school, Anwar Public School, Saint Suleman School, Hasan Nagar, Jamiatul Quran, Akbar Bagh, Madrasa Arabia Madinat-ul-Uloom visited the exhibition.

A man, from Phoenix, Arizona, who died at 87, had apparently fathered 54 children with different women, during his long life.

Samuel Delbert Whitney’s step daughter Lexie Woods found bottles of 100 milligram Viagra and a pile of birth certificates in his apartment after his death in July, the New York Daily News reported.

Now, 68-year-old Woods has taken upon herself to bring Whitney’s biological children together, as the old man had never talked about how, when, or why he sowed his wild oats.

Celebrities are no stranger to controversies, and Priyanka Chopra knows this. Having tasted her share of link-up rumours in the Hindi film industry, the actress admits that controversies do affect her family.

The former Miss World, who has been in Bollywood for a decade, has been caught up in several controversies – a fight with actress Kareena Kapoor and link-ups with married actors like Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan.

The family girl says that such controversies hurt.

After visiting the Islamic Calligraphy Exhibition of Siasat Urdu Daily at Salarjung Museum yesterday, Ms. Zeenath Taher Hussain, mother of famous film actor and Director Amer Khan told that by seeing Quranic Calligraphic verses, heart gets tranquility. She applauded religious and cultural activates of Siasat held in Hyderabad. She express the desire to obtain the Calligraphic Exhibit depicting “Allah-hu-Akbar”. She visited Siasat Art Gallery despite her ill health. She took round of the exhibition on a wheel chair. She was accompanied by her daughter Ms. Nikhat Khan.

Researchers have suggested that it may be possible in the future to create sperm from women and eggs from men – a feat, that if achieved, could revolutionise infertility treatments.

Katsuhiko Hayashi of Kyoto University in Japan and his senior professor Mitinori Saitou used skin cells from mice to create primordial germ cells or PGCs. PGCs are the common precursor of both male and female sex cells.

These cells were then developed into both sperm and eggs. Scientists used these to create live-births via in vitro fertilisation.

Scientists have claimed that sex and having good communication can have a significant influence on relationships but factors like knowing partner’s favourite pizza topping, being employed and ability to support yourself also matter.

Scientists tested 2,201 participants, head to head, in seven “relationship competencies” that previous researchers had found to vital for promoting happiness in romantic relationships.

The researchers’ idea was to rank them in order of vitality to start building data on the aspects of relationships most important to keep them healthy.

A technique that combines liposuction and tummy tuck, and is designed to reduce surgical trauma, is providing excellent patient outcomes with a low complication rate, according to a study.

ASPS Member Surgeon Dr. Eric Swanson, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Leawood, Kansas, presents an in-depth report on his experience with a combined technique of liposuction and abdominoplasty in a large series of patients over five years.

Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, Managing Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily asked publicly the leaders of Telangana Joint Action Committee and TRS for the defeat of Mr. Sayeed Ibrahim who was a candidate of TRS for Assembly constituency in Mahboob Nagar. He was addressing Eid-Milap function at Mahboob Nagar organized by Minorities United Reservation Front. By asking this question openly, Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan askef Prof. Kodandaram ,Jitender reddy and srinivas goud and Trs leadersip to accept moral responsibility of defeat of the Muslim candidate floated by TRS.

The Indian rupee, which was at par with the American currency at the time of independence in 1947, hit a record low of 63.30 against a dollar Monday. This means the Indian currency has depreciated by more than 63 times against the greenback in the past 66 years.

The currency has witnessed a large volatility in the past two years. This volatility became acute in the past three months affecting major macro-economic data, including growth, inflation, trade and investment.

Few Indian politicians evoke dislike and admiration as intense as that inspired by Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat. Mr. Modi is the de facto prime ministerial candidate for India’s leading opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the 2014 parliamentary elections. Mr. Modi has been remodeling himself as a pro-business, pro-development leader who can bring about economic growth and make difficult decisions.

Director Oliver Stone, known to be outspoken, has criticised US President Barack Obama for the National Security Agency spying controversy.

“Obama is a snake,” Stone told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan Monday. “He’s a snake. And we have to turn on him,” he added.

According to huffingtonpost.com, Stone claimed that Obama’s much-maligned NSA programmes, which collect phone and other electronic data from millions of Americans daily, help more to stifle protesters than they do to track down terrorists.

The director cited the Boston Marathon as a chief example.

The excitement has been building up around the seventh season of spicy celebrity reality show “Bigg Boss”, but the official line-up of participants will be unveiled only Sep 15, when the show goes on air.

Superstar Salman Khan is once again the host of the Colors show.

“Bigg Boss 7” will be showcased in the primetime slot of 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. as two of the channel’s shows – “Sanskaar – Dharohar Apnon Ki” and “Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha – Season 2” will make way for it.

Sujai Karampuri : Imagine white people of the United States coming out in hordes in 1960s protesting and agitating against the Civil Rights Act that gave political freedom to the black people. It would indeed be the world’s ugliest movement because it is not a fight for their rights but to deny those rights to others. It is not a fight for freedom for themselves but to deny that freedom to others.

Luckily the world did not witness such an ugly movement. The whites of USA accepted the rights and freedoms given to the former slaves.

Birthdays are always special, but for those, as chance would have it, who celebrate it on Aug 15 – India’s Independence Day – it’s a double joy. And their loved ones cannot concoct stories of forgetting their birthdays.

IANS spoke to a few of lucky ones on the eve of India’s 67th Independence Day.
”It is a kind of good feeling. There was never need to ask for a leave to celebrate my birthday, as it was always a gazetted holiday.” Sindhu Kumar Sharma a civilian electrical engineer in a defence establishment told IANS joyously.

He will turn 53 on Thursday.

Have you ever wondered how highly successful couples make their marriages work under all that pressure?

Well, to help you solve the above riddle, YourTango.com has jotted down some tricks of couples, who manage to stay together despite all the odds, the Huffigton Post reported.

The site insists that successful couples enjoy being with each other and even if they get into a fight, they do it skillfully, in a way that makes their relationship stronger, not weaker.

A dermatologist has claimed that exposure to the summer sun is a boon for people suffering from psoriasis.

Julie Moore, MD, dermatologist at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, part of Loyola University Health System, said that the sun is one of the best treatments for psoriasis, so in summer she encourage her patients to sit out on the deck and give their affected areas a good sun bath.

She asserted that twenty to thirty minutes is adequate to improve the skin.

India’s two prominent Islamic helplines are discouraging young callers, especially women, from creating profiles and posting pictures on popular social networking websites Facebook and Twitter on the ground that it is unIslamic.

The heads of the two popular Lucknow-based helplines, run for Shia and Sunni Muslims, have been flooded with phone calls asking if virtual profiles are Islamic.

A spirited Roundtable discussion at the ICSSR Hall in Osmania University this morning launched the civil society challenge to Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial aspirations. Organized by 20 student organizations including the Telangana Vidyathila Sangam , All Mala Students Association, Democratic Student Union, Student Federation of India, Bahujan Student Forum and All India Students Federation and, the roundtable featured student leaders and professors including Kancha Ailiah and Balaboyina Sudarshan. Prof.

A UK man has explained how by following a “starvation” diet he managed to cure his diabetes in just 11 days.

Richard Doughty, 59, said that he was shocked when a routine health check revealed he had Type 2 diabetes because he has always been a 10st 7lb healthy weight, 5ft 7in man, the Daily Express reported.

Doughty insisted that he had no family history of diabetes, always ate a healthy diet, never smoked and or even had a sweet tooth.

Those who express their sympathies with the destitute for the pleasure of Allah (SWT), get closer to Almighty. Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily expressed these thoughts while addressing a gathering of the prisoners yesterday at Cherlapally jail. Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, Managing Editor and Mr. Amer Ali Khan, News Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily also attended Iftar party along with Mr. Osman Al-Hajri, President Deccan Wakf Protection Society, Mr. Maqbool-bin- Abdullah Alhajri, Mr. Hayat Hussain Habeeb and others.

Author Christopher Andersen’s new book, tilted ‘These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie’, has revealed intimate details of John Kennedy’s fling with 1950s sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe.

According to the book, the 35th President of the US’ s wife Jacqueline, also known as Jackie, had confessed to Dr. Frank Finnerty, whom she trusted with all the personal details of her marriage, that her spouse was so promiscuous and his extramarital affairs were so many, that there was no way either she or he could possibly identify them all.