Hyderabad, December 20: Hyderabad’s most popular event is in for an image makeover. It will be ‘Numaish’ now officially, though for the common man it has always been so. Authorities have decided to shed the ‘All India Industrial Exhibition’ label and promote it with the brand name ‘Numaish’.
Warsaw, December 19: Thieves on Friday stole the infamous Nazi German “Arbeit macht frei” sign from the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, police said.
The sign, which means “Work Will Set You Free”, has become a symbol of the horror of the camp where about 1.1 million mainly Jewish prisoners died during World War II, most in the notorious gas chambers.
The theft which police said may have been ordered by a private collector or a group of individuals sparked widespread outrage.
Florida, December 17: A South Florida woman whose husband won the lottery and then left her was set to be evicted from her home Tuesday evening.
Donna Campbell was given until Tuesday to pack up and leave the Miramar home she once shared with her husband, Arnim Ramdass.
“I have asked myself over and over what I did to deserve this, to deserve this ending,” Campbell said. Ramdass and several other airline mechanics won $19 million in a June 2007 lottery jackpot. Instead of sharing the wealth, Campbell said her husband did not tell her about his win and eventually left her.
London, December 17: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes daughter Suri has been named the most fashionable child celebrity in a survey conducted by Britain’s specialist kids clothing retailer Adams Childrenswear.
The three-year-old, who has a designer wardrobe worth more than $3 million, has beaten the Beckham brothers and Madonna`s stylish daughter Lourdes to the top spot, reported a website.
Cruise and Holmes have commissioned the world`s top fashion designers to custom make their daughter`s outfits.
Lucknow, December 12: A community council in an Uttar Pradesh town has banned loud music and bands at marriage functions, saying they violate the provisions of the Shariat (Islamic law) and are a waste of money.
A panchayat (community council) of the Ansari community in Rajowala village near Shamli town in Muzaffarnagar, some 350 km from Lucknow, issued the order Friday night and hundreds of people from over 20 villages around Shamli unanimously agreed to abide by it, according to local residents.
Mumbai, December 07: It was a dog’s day out in Nashik. The Boy’s Town Public School ground, where the 23rd and 24th dog championships were held, was overflowing with canine calls as owners, trainers and breeders from across the country gathered for an All-India dog show.
The show, which was organised by the Mumbai Canine Club in association with the Blue Cross Society and the Kennel Society of Nashik, saw 310 entries coming from Nashik, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata.
London, December 05: It may be one of the easiest and fastest ways, but it’s bad manners to dump your lover by just sending a text message, say etiquette experts.
According to the experts from from Debrett’s, which publishes the A-Z of Modern Manners, ending a relationship by sending a text message is bad manners and texting is “too heartless” too.
Jo Bryant, an etiquette adviser and blogger for the publishing house, said longer relationships deserve “face-to-face attention and a decent explanation”.
Puri, December 05: With 350 vegetarian items on the menu, it was a feast for the gods at the Vaishnavite seminary Radhashyam Math in this Hindu holy town on the Orissa coast. It happens every year, but the seminary outdid itself this week as hundreds of devotees and other visitors sat cross-legged on the floor and lapped up the feast from specially designed leaf plates.
Mumbai, December 03: What does it take to be happy in a relationship? If you’re working to improve your marriage, here are a few habits of happy couples. 10 Habits of happy couples
1. Go to bed at the same time
Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.
2. Cultivate common interests
Chandigarh, December 01: A woman here had to prove that she was the mother of 38-day-old twin girls, who were allegedly kidnapped Monday, before the babies here restored to her Tuesday, police said.
Simran, a resident of Sector 44 here, had to show the birth certificates in the local court and take its consent, before getting her daughters back from the police Tuesday evening.
Simran called the police control room Monday afternoon and told them that two women had kidnapped her daughters, Neha and Isha, after forcibly entering her house, a police official said.
Chandigarh, November 30: A ‘murrah’ buffalo at a village in Haryana’s Faridabad district has set a new record by yielding 31.320 kg milk in the state in a day, an official said here today.
A spokesman of Haryana Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department said here this was the highest yield by a ‘murrah’ buffalo in the state so far.
He said the buffalo, belonging to Dharam Pal Nagar, was milked in the presence of sub-divisional Magistrate, senior officers of the Department, a senior veterinary doctor and village Sarpanch in a competition organised recently in Faridabad.
–Agencies
Sharjah, November 28: A bull that fell off a truck nearly spoilt Eid Al Adha celebrations of motorists and people in a Sharjah area on Friday morning.
While people out greeting friends and neighbours along King Faisal Street ran for life, motorists swerved left and right trying to avoid the bull running helter-skelter.
Eyewitnesses and police sources said the bull fell from a truck carrying animals to a slaughterhouse around 8.30am. Not realising that he had lost one of his prized cargo, the driver sped towards Central Souq.
Florida, November 28: Ten students at a Naples, Florida, middle school have been given one-day, in-school suspensions for participating in “Kick a Jew Day,” in which Jewish students were targeted for assault, according to news reports in the local media.
Parents and students at North Naples Middle School told NBC channel 2 in Naples that many students — all of them Jewish — were targeted in the attacks, which took place last week.
The station obtained a letter from one parent who said his daughter was a target of the attacks.
Cape Canaveral, November 23: Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.
Abigail Mae Bresnik was born as her father circled Earth on his first space shuttle mission, just hours after his first spacewalk.
It was only the second time in history that a NASA astronaut was in orbit instead of the delivery room.
London, November 23: Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had 14 lovers at a time, de-classified diaries of his mistress have revealed.
Claretta Petacci, a Vatican doctor’s daughter, met Mussolini in 1932 at the age of 20, and became his lover four years later. Her diaries cover the period from 1932 to 1938.
Hyderabad, November 22: Believe it or not – the authorities in Andhra Pradesh have issued a ration card in the name of Mahatma Gandhi along with his picture!
What is more shocking is that the card named Nathuram Godse, the killer of Mahatma Gandhi, as his father. Godse, however, has been misspelt as Godsay.
Chittoor district collector V. Seshadari has ordered a probe after the ration card, carrying a fictitious address, was detected during a verification drive in the district to wee out bogus cards.
Sydney, November 21: An Australian who strangled his wife for waking up his dog and then went out for a drink at his local pub was sentenced to prison by a Melbourne court.
Anthony Sherna, who pleaded not guilty to killing Susanne Wild, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years in jail for the 2008 slaying.
It had been Sherna’s habit to rock his beloved Jack Russell terrier to sleep each night. He told police Wild had roused the dog with her shouting and that he had pulled the cord from his dressing gown and strangled her.
Mumbai, November 17: Sanjeeth Shetty alias Lafda, a member of the Kumar Pillai gang, recently forced his way into the office of builder Ramesh Shah in Vikhroli (East), brandishing a 7.65 mm Mauser. But when he tried to open fire, the revolver got jammed. The funny side of the episode is that the gun had no technical glitch. Shetty failed to fire a shot because he had not been properly trained to handle the gun, a source said.
New Delhi, November 16: Delhiites experienced a pleasant weather today with the mercury remaining at a comfortable level throughout the day.
A thin layer of fog enveloped the city early in the morning but there was no report of any flight disruption at the airport.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 16.5 degrees Celsius, five degrees above the normal while the maximum was recorded at 27.1 degrees Celsius, a degree below the normal temperature at this time of the season, the Met office said.
Gaza, November 14: In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.
He uses the bees to sting those who have come to him for help — and amid the territory’s deepening isolation, his clinic has been transformed into a hive of activity.
Since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 the coastal enclave has been sealed off from all but vital aid by both Israel and Egypt, limiting the ability of Gazans to seek medical care abroad.
South Korea, November 07: A woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
Cha Sa-soon, 68, attempted the test almost every day since April 2005, the Associated Press reported.
She passed the written exam with a score of 60, a police official at the drivers’ licence agency in Jeonju, south of Seoul, said.
Mrs Sa-soon must now pass a driving test before getting her licence.
She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the licence for her vegetable-selling business.
—Agencies
Harare, November 05: Two people were slightly injured after a passenger aircraft of Zimbabwe’s state-owned airline crashed on take-off after colliding with a herd of wild pigs, officials said Thursday.
Trsnsport Minister Nicholas Goche told the state-controlled Herald newspaper that the Air Zimbabwe MA60 plane, on a flight to the western city of Bulawayo on Tuesday was about to lift off from Harare airport’s runway shortly after dark when the pigs ran into its path.
“The nose (of the Chinese-made 60-seater) and left main landing gear collapsed after impact,” he said.
Panaji, November 05: Jose Pereira, 32, and his wife Albertina, 30, of Nerul, Bardez were shocked to find that the government had gifted them two children who are twice their age and citizens of the United Kingdom.
When Pereira collected his ration card after renewal last month, he found that Urban William Paul, 73, and Janet Margo Paul, 65, had been added as his son and daughter on the card.
New Delhi, November 02: It is a different kind of fetish all together for 32-year-old Nazim Baig of Lucknow, who munches about 20kg of vegetables daily, plucked straight from the fields, just to satisfy his appetite.
But his neighbours are not a happy lot, because Nazim steals the vegetables from their farms every night and often consumes them during dusk.
The Asian Age today reported that Nazim, who lives in Maulaganj village, about 90 km from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, eats about 15 to 20 kg of raw vegetables daily, when everyone is asleep.
Mumbai, November 01: Homeopath and psychologist from Hyderabad, Dr Kishore Reddy, sure can talk. On Saturday, he claimed to have set a world record for the longest-ever speech by delivering one for 25 hours, six minutes and 28 seconds. The subject, some would argue, lends itself to such ‘speechathons’. It was about ‘How to build a happy marriage.’