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Buyers have to wait for possession of Noida flats

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Buyers of flats in some parts of Noida will have to mark time as the Supreme Court Tuesday declined to interfere with an NGT order restraining the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority from issuing completion certificates in respect of structures falling within 10 km of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary.

An apex court bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan Tuesday declined the plea by the Jaypee Infratech Ltd. challenging the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which said no completion certificate will be issued to projects within 10 km of the sanctuary.

Angelina Jolie says being survivor of sexual violence isn’t shameful

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Angelina Jolie opened up about ending sexual violence during the London summit saying that “there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence”.

The 39-year-old actress, who’s also an UN special envoy, was co-hosting the summit along with British foreign secretary William Hague , and described rape as one of the “great mass crimes” of modern times, the BBC reported.

Jolie dedicated the day to one of the rape victims she had recently interviewed in Bosnia, who felt humiliated and abandoned at seeing her culprit roaming free.

Nargis Fakhri beats Delhi heat in style

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Actress Nargis Fakhri was in the capital to inaugurate clothing line brand ‘Vero Moda’s new store at Khan Market.

Sporting a chic look in a short pencil skirt and top, Nargis along with models including Surily Joseph, Noyonika Chatterjee, Sapna Kumar, Indrani Dasgupta and Tamara Moss promoted the brand.

Speaking at the event, the ‘Madras Cafe’ star shared her mantra to beat the heat “I guess drink lots of fluids, protect yourself with sunscreen, which is very important, or may be a hat, make sure that the clothes that you wear are cool, and you are well covered”.

Police allows nightlife till 1 am in Bangalore

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It’s three cheers to thousands of Bangaloreans who can soon party till 1 am throughout the week, thanks to the police permitting bars and restaurants to serve liquor and food past midnight for a year.

“We have no objection if the state government permits nightlife in Bangalore by allowing bars and pubs to serve liquor till 1 am all days of the week,” Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar told reporters here late Tuesday.

Cauvery water-sharing dispute generates heat in LS

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The Cauvery water-sharing dispute on Tuesday created an uproar in Lok Sabha today after an AIADMK member referred to it during a debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s address.

As AIADMK Leader M Thambidurai drew the attention of Union Minister and BJP leader from Karnataka Ananth Kumar to the issue, the Minister, who hails from Karnataka, termed the matter as “sub-judice”. He was supported by members of all parties from Karnataka.

Thambidurai referred to the water row while underlining the need for linking of rivers. Trouble started after he referred to Kumar.

More than my ‘bhabhi’, Rani is my well-wisher: Uday Chopra

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Actor-producer Uday Chopra is glad that his “Mujhse Dosti Karoge” co-star Rani Mukerji is now his “bhabhi” (sister-in-law), and says she’s always been a well-wisher for him.

Rani married Uday’s elder brother Aditya Chopra in Italy in April.

“They have got married and she’s part of our family. We have welcomed her and her family. She is certainly a homemaker,” Uday told IANS.

Here comes ‘SIF’ to save males from harassment

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Men who are at the receiving end of domestic violence or charged with false rape cases need not feel left out any more. Help has come via a mobile app.

An NGO working for protection of men’s rights has come up with a unique mobile application and a dedicated helpline number to help men in distress.

Save India Family Foundation, the NGO whose Kolkata chapter is known as “Hridaya-Nest”, developed the app keeping in mind a growing tribe of males who are becoming victims of the alleged misuse of Section 498a of the IPC and anti-rape laws.
The app named ‘SIF’ was launched in April.

When male dolphin fell in love with female researcher

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Can animals fall in love with humans? They do, but in the case of a female animal researcher the chemistry between her and a male dolphin was well beyond just love.

In a new BBC documentary titled “The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins”, Margaret Howe Lovatt has explained what happened when she tried to teach a bottlenose dolphin named Peter how to speak English during a NASA funded experiment in 1965.

Lovatt, then 23, was stationed on the US Virgin Islands with a male dolphin where the two of them would eat, bathe and sleep together.

Peter apparently fell in love with her.

Idea, IOC tie up to service 82 mn LPG customers

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Idea Cellular and IOC have entered into a partnership that will allow over 82 million LPG consumers of Indane to book LPG 24×7 on mobile phones and get delivery status updates via IVR and SMS.

As part of the agreement, that is valid for two years, Idea will extend its ‘smart gas solution’ service to enable end-to-end automation on refill delivery process of IOC.

Daimler India enters Bangladesh market

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German commercial vehicle maker Daimler’s Indian subsidiary has forayed into Bangladesh market by launching FUSO Trucks manufactured at its plant here, making it the sixth overseas destination.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicle, the Indian arm of Stuttgart-based Daimler AG, along with Daimler Group company Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, launched FUSO Trucks, in Bangladesh making it as the sixth strategic market since beginning of exports in May 2013.

AirAsia India set to begin operations from tomorrow

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The domestic aviation space is all set to witness severe competition with the entry of AirAsia India, which starts operation from Thursday.

AirAsia India, the Indian arm of the Malaysian no-frills airline headed by Tony Fernandes, will become the fourth budget carrier in the country — after IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir — once its maiden flight takes off from Bangalore to Goa at 1510 hours on Thursday.

Besides these, the Naresh-Goyal promoted full service airline Jet Airways also operates a low-cost service JetLite.

Shoe factory catches fire in Agra

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The third floor of a shoe factory which caught fire in Agra was brought under control by Wednesday morning. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot to control the blaze.

The floor which caught fire had chemicals stored in it.

The factory is also located very close to a petrol pump and efforts were on to prevent the fire from spreading any further.

There were reports of small blasts emanating from the factory too. (ANI)

PMO seeks Oil Minister’s views on IOC appointment

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Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is believed to have sought views of new Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on appointment of B Ashok as the head of India’s largest oil firm, IOC.

B Ashok, Executive Director (Retail Sales) at Indian Oil Corp (IOC), was on October 9, 2013 chosen to head the company by government headhunters Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB), but the previous UPA government could not appoint him before its tenure ended.

Google announces to buy satellite maker Skybox for USD 500 mn

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Internet search provider Google has entered into an agreement to buy satellite maker Skybox for USD 500 million in cash.

The deal is expected to make the search engine giant to serve as a launching pad to send its own satellite to take aerial pictures and provide online access to remote areas of the world.

Skybox’s satellites will help keep Google Maps accurate with up-to-date imagery, the Silicon Valley-based company said in a statement yesterday.

‘Adorkable’ new geek word added to Collins English Dictionary

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The new geek word ” Adorkable” has been included in the Collins English Dictionary, it has been revealed.

The Dictionary held a contested vote for a geeky innovative word that would earn a spot in the book and people voted massively through Twitter to make the word ‘adorkable’ the winner, CNet reported.

The definition of the word given in the dictionary is “socially inept or unfashionable in a charming or endearing way”.

The word received around 30 percent of votes beating out the word felfie’s that earned 22 percent. (ANI)

‘Trust hormone’ oxytocin helps repair old muscles

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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that oxytocin-a hormone associated with maternal nurturing, social attachments, childbirth and sex-is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair.

The new study presents oxytocin as the latest treatment target for age-related muscle wasting, or sarcopenia.

Indian-born scientist develops copper wire that can also store energy

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An Indian-born nanotechnologist has developed a copper wire that can transmit and store electricity simultaneously. The new innovation would ultimately make conventional lithium-ion batteries out of vogue.

The store-and-transmit cables using nanotechnology is expected to transform high-technology sectors like aircraft manufacturing, spacecraft by embedding these wires throughout the body, significantly boosting total energy storage, while saving space.

Nifty breaches 7,700 mark, Sensex at new high on fund inflows

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he NSE index Nifty today crossed the 7,700 level for the first time and the BSE Sensex hit yet another record high of 25,735.87 led by a rally in IT, auto banking and pharma stocks on sustained inflow of foreign capital.

The 50-issue Nifty crossed the 7,700 level for the first time by gaining 43.65 points, or 0.57 per cent, to trade at an all-time high of 7,700.05, surpassing its previous intra-day high of 7,683.20 touched yesterday.

Eating oatmeal can help you feel full longer: Study

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A new research has revealed that eating one bowl of instant oatmeal for breakfast helps to manage hunger better than the same amount of leading oat-based cereal.

The statistically significant results established that instant oatmeal enhanced satiety, feelings of fullness and reduced the desire to eat more than a RTE, oat-based cereal.

Frank Greenway, M.D. said that instant oatmeal is more effective at suppressing appetite compared to the cold cereal, even with a smaller serving size and less calories than previously investigated.

Kaleemullah introduces a clock which matches the tawaf of Ka’aba

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The world has been using analogue clocks since centuries, which usually ticks left to right direction; here is the innovator who introduced a clock which rotates anticlockwise direction in accordance with the tawaf (circumambulation) of the Ka’aba.

Mr. Kaleemullah Khan Alias Moosa A. Al-Madani, founder of Tawaf Research foundation, Bangalore, is a diploma graduate in electronic engineering. He was a store manager in Kappa, a Korean based watch company in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

DRDO scientist Aijaz Ahmed given clean chit in ‘terror’ module case by NIA

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A former junior research fellow working at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bangalore, Aijaz Ahmed Mirza was arrested in August 2012. Mirza and a few other Muslim youths were charged of conceiving a plot to assassinate radical Hindutva politicians and journalists in Karnataka and other places. However, Mirza has been cleared of any wrong doing by the National?Investigation Agency (NIA), here recently.

Ministers ‘Text Message’ to sort out issues

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended the policy architecture of group of ministers and gave power to the group of ministers. This means, he was casting governance into a more informal setting, where some of the ministers holding many portfolios could meet up over a text message to sort out issues.

According to Prakash Javadekar, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, it has ended “the age of indecision”.

Naidu eager to complete all the paperwork

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N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is eager to complete all paperwork by the end of this month and concentrate on giving a face-lift to the administration.

The state government will have a, to the point Assembly Session immediately for the newly elected MLAs to take oaths followed by election of the Assembly Speaker and deputy Speaker.

According to TD sources, the Assembly Session may be convened on June 16 or 19. The dates will be finalized during the Cabinet meeting scheduled on June 12 at Visakhapatnam.

Over 4,000 jobs this year, as e-commerce industry grows big

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A number of e-commerce Co’s are set to hire more than 4,000 fresher’s from some of India’s top technical institutions this year.

Portals such as myntra.com, commonfloor.com, paytm.com and savaari.com are tapping into Indian Institutes of Technology, BITS, Indian School of Business and Indian Institutes of Management with pay packages ranging from Rs.12 lakh to Rs.15 lakh a year.

The $16-billion e-commerce industry is creating more jobs in the areas of mobile app development, big data and analytics by giving a push by encouraging more transactions over the mobile platform.