Water theft continues to occur in Ashwini Layout and VGS Layout near Ejipura, regardless of notices issued by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to over 32 residents a month ago.
A lot of residents in this area have been using motor pumps and drawing directly from the Board’s main water lines, which have a bearing on the water supply to other residents, who have been left without adequate supply of water.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Virag Pachpor on Monday termed National Conference (NC) chief, Farooq Abdullah’s comments as objectionable, and said sedition charges must be filed against the latter.
“Farooq Abdullah is a central minister and his remarks made yesterday are serious. His first comments made against Modi that if he becomes prime minister, then Kashmir will secede is objectionable. What is he trying to do with these comments. Therefore, sedition charges should be slapped against him for saying Kashmir will separate from India,” Pachpor said.
A leading Indian financial and health care service player has tied up with the UAE Exchange to offer Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana Scheme in the Gulf country.
The announcement was made in Abu Dhabi yesterday in the presence of Indian Ambassador to the UAE, T P Seetharam, and other senior officials from the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
UAE Exchange will be a facilitator for the implementation of the MGPSY scheme offered by the India’s Ministry of Overseas in association with Alankit Assignments.
Bihar Minister and JD(U) leader Shayam Rajak today filed a complaint case against yoga teacher Ramdev for his uncharitable remarks on Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi pertaining to Dalits.
Rajak filed the case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Ramakant Yadav.
The matter will come up for hearing tomorrow.
Rajak submitted in his petition that Ramdev’s statement “Rahul Gandhi visits Dalits’ houses for honeymoon” had insulted the downtrodden.
Jharkhand State Cricket Association has launched a scheme to help students of the state to watch the IPL match on May 2 to be held at JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi along with their guardians free of cost.
Those students interested to watch the match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders will have to provide details in the form being distributed by JSCA from its International Stadium premises from today, JSCA Assistant Secretary Aseem Kumar Singh said.
An expert is reportedly of the opinion that the new Manchester United manager Ryan Giggs is set to crack under the pressure of taking charge of the club as the footballer is racked with ‘anxiety and concern’.
Body language expert Dr. Peter Collett believes that even though Giggs has looked calm on the surface since taking charge of United, the Welshman could cave in to pressure at any time.
Collett said that Giggs joking around at his first press conference as manager hid the footballer’s inner turmoil, Metro.co.uk reported.
Manchester United interim boss Ryan Giggs does not have his own father’s backing to be in charge of the club full time as the veteran’s father says that he would not trust his son to even run a bath.
Giggs’ father dismissed the chances of his son managing the club on a full-time basis and said that he would not trust his son to run a bath, let alone United.
According to Metro.co.uk, chances of taking charge of United on a full-time basis have seemingly taken a blow for Giggs, as his own father is not keen on the footballer to take charge of the club.
Encouraged by the presence of many “team players”, Kolkata Knight Riders bowling coach Wasim Akram has expressed confidence that his side will make it to the final four in the IPL as they have a “good enough” bowling attack.
“We just went for the players we thought are team players and obviously individual match winners, Yusuf is there, Shakib-al-Hasan, Robin Uthappa, Andre Russell. All these guys are team people and a team sport needs players who support each other when things are bad,” Akram told PTI in an interview.
Dubbing Rahul Gandhi as a “specimen”, Narendra Modi on Monday lampooned the Congress Vice President for his “little knowledge” on Gujarat and the facts laid out in his speeches about vast job vacancies and the institution of the Lokayukta in the state.
Modi also alleged that the Congress has so far sent 100 emissaries to his home town of Vadnagar to find out if he ever used to sell tea or not.
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced 683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death for assaulting and killing police personnel last year.
The Minya Criminal Court accused the defendants, including Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie, of involvement in killing policemen in Al-Adwa town in the Upper Egyptian province, Xinhua reported.
The same court sentenced 37 Brotherhood members and supporters to death and gave life imprisonment to 492 others in a similar case related to last year’s violence in the town of Matay in Minya.
On Monday, the Election Commission banned Baba Ramdev’s camps in Chamba and Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh even as a fresh FIR was filed against the yoga guru in Patna over his contentious honeymoon remark counter to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The most recent EC action against Ramdev comes a day after the poll panel banned all his programmes in Lucknow till the elections were over.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday sought Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s unconditional apology for his personal attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or else it would file a defamation suit against him.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that on the one hand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi talks of women empowerment, and on the other, he taps their phones and stalks them with the help of the Gujarat Police.
“In Delhi, there was a poster in which there was a picture of Modi that read – “more power to women”. He says he wants to give power to women. In Mangalore, his party beats up women,” Rahul said.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome toll has reached 102 in Saudi Arabia since the virus first emerged in April 2012, a media report said Monday.
The country’s health ministry said 10 new deaths occurred Sunday while 16 new confirmed cases have been reported in Jeddah, Tabuk and Riyadh Monday, the Arab News reported.
The total number of cases diagnosed with the virus has reached 339.
The health ministry has set up specialised medical centres in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam.
A bench headed by Chief Justice R.M.Lodha on Monday stayed the execution of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq in connection with his role in the 2000 Red Fort attack case.
The Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre on Arif’s plea seeking its direction for his release on the ground that he has already spent over 13 years behind bars and he should not be hanged after such a long period.
Medha Patkar, social activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan fame on Sunday protests against the ongoing metro rail project in the city, alleging that the plan was flawed and would lead to the uprooting of hundreds of people from their homes.
Patkar marched to Sultan Bazaar, where inhabitants and small merchants have been voicing disapproval against the metro rail project. “The netas never asked whether the people wanted the metro rail to pass through that corridor. Which democratic process fails to acknowledge the struggles of people?” she asked.
The Charminar city may be plagued by bad roads and irregular supply of drinking water even though the Owaisi family led Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party, which does not even have a manifesto, has been triumphant this Lok Sabha seat since 1984 banking on Muslim votes.
Late Sultan Salahuddin was the first Owaisi to win as an Independent in 1984 notwithstanding a strong wave in favour of Telugu Desam Party.
Chennai Super Kings overcame some anxious moments before huffing and puffing to a five-wicket win over a fighting Sunrisers Hyderabad in a thrilling Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket match, here today.
Chasing 146 for their fourth win in a row, Chennai achieved the target with three balls to spare as openers Dwayne Smith (66) and Brendon McCullum (40) laid a solid foundation with their 85-run partnership in 10.5 overs.
Smith and McCullum made batting look easy as they struck the ball effortlessly even as all other batsmen struggled on a difficult wicket.
A French woman whose name sounds like al-Qaida was stopped from entering the US.
Aida Alic, 33-years-old, arrived at Geneva airport on Wednesday with her husband and two children to fly to New York for a holiday. But, airline staff informed her that they had been told by US authorities she was not allowed to fly into the country. Alic was given no further explanation and she and her family were forced to return to their home, according to the Daily Star reports.
Questioning the “silence” of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over allegations involving Robert Vadra, BJP on Monday wondered if the internal politics of Congress does not allow them to speak about them or “defend” Vadra.
“There can be a sister or daughter coming to defence but the mother-in-law and brother-in-law is not there to defend. Neither it is a family matter nor just another case of corruption,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said, rejecting Priyanka Gandhi’s contention over the isse.
School children here are looking forward to a string of holidays from April 28 to May 1, thanks to the polling schedule in the state capital.
Monday and Tuesday have been declared holidays because teachers have been sent for poll duties. Schools are also closed on the election day April 30 (Wednesday) as balloting will take place at school premises where the polling stations have been set up.
All major schools like the City Montessori School and the Delhi Public School have declared holidays.
Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air’s first woman captain, Yasmeen Fraidoon, has taken to the skies on her maiden commercial flight.
Captain Fraidoon joined Gulf Air in 2008 as a second officer, after graduating from Qatar Aeronautical College.
Accumulating the required flying hours, she completed the necessary training and went on to pass extensive and rigorous checks, successful earning her fourth stripe and Captain ranking in March.
Pakistani troops on Monday opened fire in Bimar Ghali area of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu’s Poonch district and again violated ceasefire agreement.
“Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at our positions in Bimar Ghali area on the LoC Monday morning,” defence spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta told.
“Firing started at 5.15 a.m. Their soldiers used small arms and automatics to target our positions. We have responded with similar calibre weapons,” Mehta said.
Taiwan police today used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators, demanding the scrapping of a nearly completed nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial issues to have gripped the island for 30 years.
Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators blockaded one of the busiest streets in the capital yesterday, forcing the ruling Kuomintang party to yield and halt construction work at the plant.
Since China is a communist country, the teachings of Jesus Christ hold little currency. Nevertheless, the atheist regime would do well to pay attention to one of Jesus’ sayings: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
In recent times, several episodes have revealed the one-eyed nature of Chinese policy and behavior.