Asian News International The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts main accused Yakub Memon.
Television reports said the apex court gave a reprieve to Yakub Memon in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
The Supreme Court had tagged Yakub’s petition-seeking a stay on his execution-with pending cases and referred it to a constitution bench, which will decide whether the review petition should be heard in an open court.
After featuring in supporting roles, actor Sharib Hashmi found his big ticket as a lead character in “Filmistaan”. He says he has now decided to stick to acting and wants to make it his bread and butter.
Sharib’s height posed a problem for him.
“I wanted to be an actor, but I couldn’t be one because my height was just 5’4. I realized that even the supporting actors were taller than me. But, I was secretly nurturing the desire of becoming an actor,” Sharib said here.
“Now I want to stick to acting and I want to make acting my bread and butter,” he added.
A new study has revealed that psychological stress is harmful to sperm and semen quality, affecting its concentration, appearance, and ability to fertilize an egg.
According to a study led by researchers Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Rutgers School of Public Health, men who feel stressed are more likely to have lower concentrations of sperm in their ejaculate, and the sperm they have are more likely to be misshapen or have impaired motility, which may diminish fertility.
Which mode of transportation makes you happier – Metro, bus or auto? Forget those this weekend and try riding a bicycle to gain maximum happiness on the way.
Investigating how emotions like happiness, pain, stress, sadness and fatigue vary during travel and by travel mode, researchers have found that bicycling is the best way to lift your happiness quotient up.
Losing weight is one thing and maintaining that slim figure is quite another as most overweight people tend to regain the lost weight soon – unless you are in love with prunes!
Researchers have found that including prunes in your diet may not only help you slim your waistline but also maintain it.
“These are the first data to demonstrate both weight loss and no negative side effects when consuming prunes as part of a weight management diet,” said Jo Harrold from University of Liverpool in Britain.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said that alien contact, which is the next frontier – may have already come and gone.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the ‘Cosmos’ presenter said that his great fear is that they’ve been visited by extraterrestrials, but they chose not to make contact with us, on the conclusion that there’s no sign of intelligent life on Earth, CNET reported.
Tyson said that there’s plenty of organic matter in the Universe and that it is perfectly possible that planets out there have outlived their intelligent species.ANI
The government can rake in more than Rs 50,000 crore through stake sales in about 30 PSUs if a new Sebi proposal requiring minimum 25 per cent public holding in all listed firms passes muster with the Finance Ministry.
While private sector listed companies are already required to maintain minimum 25 per cent public shareholding, this limit for state-run listed entities currently stands at 10 per cent.
Capital markets regulator Sebi has now proposed that the 25 per cent limit be applied to the listed PSUs as well and has written to Finance Ministry regarding the same.
A Delhi-based NGO has invited three noted artists of Gulbarga, Mohammed Ayazuddin Patel, Rehaman Patel and ShahedPasha at the Bhutan International Symposium organized by SMD Foundation.
Ambassador of India to Bhutan, Mr. V.P. Haran will be inaugurating a four day event on at Nehru Wangchuck Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Thimpu (Bhutan) on June 8.
The artist’s will be representing their art works and present a paper on various types of arts like abstract painting, Indian traditional art and Islamic art of North Karnataka at the 2nd International Art Fair.
At least seven bodies were recovered Monday in Pakistan’s Karachi city, media reported.
The victims were shot in the head as well as in the chest, Dawn online reported citing rescue workers.
All seven bodies had torture marks and their hands and legs were tied with ropes, rescue workers said.
The bodies, which have not been identified yet, were shifted to a nearby hospital, the report said.IANS
Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways is likely to lease three of its Boeing 777-300 ERs to its equity partner Etihad Airways after they return from Turkish Airlines later this year, according to sources.
Jet was earlier planning to induct these wide-bodied planes, which are on lease with Turkish Airlines and will be coming back by October this year on completion of the lease period.
However after Etihad’s proposal, it shelved the plan, they said.
Google is reportedly planning to unveil Android TV at its Google I/O developer conference in late June, a report from Gigaom, citing “multiple sources familiar with the matter,” claims.
The news about Google’s current plans was first broken by The Verge.
According to Greenbot, Gigaom ‘s report provides three new pieces of key information, which includes Google’s interest in an interface code-named Pano, which puts content first and the second being the company’s big focus on gaming.
ATandT has added a new resilient feature of shock-resistance in the Samsung Galaxy S5 Active.
The Galaxy S5 which has already been on sale and was incorporated with the feature of ‘waterproof, has been added with a new element of shock resistance by ATandT, while keeping the same specifications.
According to The Verge, there is an extra ‘convenience key’ on the side of the phone that gives the user easy access to the entire phone’s apps that are related to outdoor activity.
A multi-center phase I study using an investigational drug for advanced bladder cancer patients who did not respond to other treatments has shown promising results in patients with certain tumor types, researchers report.
Yale Cancer Center played a key role in the study, the results of which will be presented Saturday, May 31 at the 2014 annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday said that it should not be forgotten that without the help of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the formation of Telangana would not have been possible.
“Let us also not forget that without Sonia ji and Dr MM Singh this wouldn’t have been possible. They fulfilled the commitment made,” tweeted Digvijay Singh.
apanese two-wheeler maker Yamaha is eying around 10 percent share in the fast growing scooter market in India this year riding on its three models.
The company, which is present in the country through a wholly-owned subsidiary, currently has over 7 percent market share in the scooter segment, which is pegged at around 3 lakh units per month.
Marking a turnaround, country’s largest realty firm DLF on Thursday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 219.68 crore for the quarter ended March 31 against a net loss of Rs 4.19 crore in the year-ago period.
Total income from operations fell by 11.5 percent to Rs 1,969.45 crore in the fourth quarter of last fiscal compared with Rs 2,225.55 crore in the corresponding quarter of previous year.
The company posted the net profit in March 2014 quarter on the back of sharp jump in other income at Rs 552.15 crore from Rs 93.24 crore during the period under review.
Actress Angelina Jolie reveals that she’s closer to her adopted son Maddox than her own genetic children.
“I think children are exactly who they are when they’re born. And if there is a trauma, it can drastically change who they are,” dailymail.co.uk. quoted Jolie, 38, who is engaged to Brad Pitt, as saying.
“If you look at baby photos of our kids, the way they were, the way they looked, what their energy was – whether they were a sweet, elegant, private little person, or a funny, open person, or a bold person – they’re still the same.
Sugar-sweetened drinks such as soda can lower semen quality, a new study has found.
Researchers have found that high consumption of sugary drinks is associated with low sperm motility, or sperm movement – but this was true only for healthy, lean men.
The researchers found no relationship between sugary drink consumption and sperm motility in overweight or obese men.
Women might want their tresses to look perfect throughout the year. But a new research reveals that over three in five British women admitted to suffering from a bad hair day at least once a week.
The research from Remington shows that although British women are more critical of their hair (with a tenth convinced that every day is a bad hair day), British men are similarly in tune with their stray strands as 41 percent also admit to having a bad hair day at least once a week, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
British women spend an average of 18.52 pounds per month on their beauty regime.
A man from US, who stole GPS (Global Positioning System), was arrested after he called police to ask them for help because he got lost.
Andrew James Joffe was unaware that a warrant had been issued for his arrest on driving offences when he contacted the authorities in Polk City, Florida, Metro.co.uk reported.
Grady Judd, Sheriff of Polk County said that they had people with warrants who called them to turn themselves in before, but it was unusual for someone with an active warrant, who just burgled a car, to get lost and calling them for help.
A BBC documentary about British Airways has revealed the techniques which flight attendants use to deal and disguise people who die when on flight.
According to the Sunday People, to avoid chaos in between the aircraft cabin crew has to use some bizarre methods to hide the dead body, the Mirror reported.
A woman trainer told that earlier they used to mask them with vodka and tonic, a newspaper and eye shades but now they just cover up the body with blanket up to the neck.
Atleast ten people have been killed and another fifteen injured today, when a maxi-cab and a bus collided in Karnataka’s Gulbarga district.
The injured have been rushed to the hospital.
Further details are awaited (ANI)
Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has congratulated the people of Telangana on the creation of India’s newest state.
He said, “We congratulate people of Telangana and we are very happy about formation of separate state of Telangana. We will go ahead with the development plank. We firmly believe that both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will co-exist peacefully and progress rapidly.”
The Union Minister also explained that the Central government will do justice to both the states and those who are lagging behind will get more help .
The Japanese government Monday started a campaign to encourage people to dress casually in workplace in a move to avoid excessive use of air conditioners to save energy.
In contrast to common impression of Japanese workers who are always in suits with ties, the “Super Cool Biz” campaign is an improved version of the “Cool Biz” started 10 years ago, which allowed government employees to work without wearing usual suits, Xinhua reported.
During the “Super Cool Biz” period, workers are allowed to wear polo shirts, sneakers and even Hawaiian aloha shirts in offices.
25 percent of smokers who carry a defect in the BRCA2 gene would be developing lung cancer at some point in their lifetime, a large-scale, international study reveals.
The defect in BRCA2 – best known for its role in breast cancer – increases the risk of developing lung cancer by about 1.8 times.