Asian News International In the wake of open display of friction in the city police top brass, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today warned that government would not tolerate any indiscipline in the police department.
“We will not tolerate any indiscipline in the police department. We are going to initiate strict action against those who violate discipline,” he said but maintained that there was no infighting in the police department
Barack Obama revealed on ABC’s ‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ that neither has he dyed his hair nor neither does he intend to.
Rumors have been swirling aout him having dyed his hair since the White House unveiled Obama’s presidential portrait in 2008, ABC News reported.
First Lady Michelle rubbished the rumours in 2011, saying that if Barack had known that he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, about 10 years ago.
After weeks of robust gains, India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by a whopping USD 2.268 billion to USD 312.656 billion in the week ended May 23, mainly on account of a massive drop in currency assets.
In the previous week, the total reserves had risen by USD 1.093 billion to USD 314.92 billion.
Foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major constituent of the overall reserves, dropped by USD 2.255 billion to USD 285.560 billion in the period, Reserve Bank said in a statement here.
The benchmark Sensex on Friday failed to hold to to early gains and ended 17 points lower due to losses in banking and consumer durable shares, logging its worst weekly drop since January.
Profit-booking ahead of GDP data later this evening and RBI monetary policy review next week were among the factors that led to markets closing on a negative note, said brokers.
If you want your daughter to set her sights high, share with your wife domestic duties like doing the dishes or laundry.
Fathers who help with household chores are more likely to raise daughters who aspire to be less traditional and opt for higher paying careers, a study said.
While the mothers’ gender and work equality beliefs were key factors in predicting the kids’ attitudes towards gender, the strongest predictor of daughters’ professional ambitions was their fathers’ approach to household chores.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has inaugurated the world’s highest cable-car system, which began carrying passengers between this capital and the adjacent city of El Alto at an elevation of some 4,000 metres above sea level.
The transport system gives the roughly 440,000 people who travel each day between these two cities in Bolivia’s western highlands a significantly faster alternative.
The $235-million project, executed by the Austrian firm Doppelmayr, consists of 11 stations, 443 10-person cabins and three lines, only one of which is currently in service.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a 15-truck convoy delivered food aid for 30,000 people in opposition-held areas of Syria.
“The convoy also delivered medicine for 15,000 people and essential household items for 10,000 people,” Xinhua quoted a UN spokesman as saying.
“This aid is part of the plan approved last week by the governor of Aleppo to help some half a million people both in opposition-and government-held areas,” the spokesman said Friday.
Imparting technical training has become easier at the Industrial Training Institute(ITI) of Kangan in Kashmir with the installation of a solar power plant that ensures uninterrupted power supply to facilitate practical training to students.
The Government of India has initiated many solar power projects in Kashmir to ensure smooth power supply in different sectors.
Speaking to reporters, on Thursday, the in- charge of the ITI, Gulam Nabi Shah, said that the solar power plant makes practical training of students easier than before.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed light on the mystery over why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars.
This new evidence highlights the important role that supermassive black holes play in the evolution of their host galaxies.
Because star-forming activity in many giant elliptical galaxies has shut down to very low levels, these galaxies mostly house long-lived stars with low masses and red optical colors. Astronomers have therefore called these galaxies “red and dead.”
Every six seconds, someone in the world dies from tobacco use, and approximately the sixth death occurs in India. India accounts roughly for 10 per cent of world’s tobacco smokers. India is also the third largest producer of tobacco leaf in the world.
While the newly appointed Health Minister of India Dr. Harsh Vardhan, who himself is a medical practitioner, admits tobacco is the worst enemy of the country, his ministry does not have the latest figures of deaths attributed to tobacco use in India.
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has been advised complete bed rest by the medical board treating him for his spinal cord problems.
According to The Nation, the medical board also recommended the former president to have his physiotherapy conducted on daily basis.
Musharraf has reportedly been advised by his doctors to go abroad for his spinal cord treatment, as it will not be possible in Pakistan .
The retired general has been shifted to his residence in Clifton, under tight security and is being examined by doctors including a cardiologist, the report adds. (ANI)
The police officials, investigating Bajrang Dal activist, Rajesh Poojary’s murder case, have been accused of arresting innocent Muslim youths on false charges, here recently. He was killed on March 21 in Bantwal taluk.
The arrested youths are residents of Mallur taluk. Their families have alleged unjust behaviour on part of the police due to pressure brought upon by members of the Sangh Parivar. Innocent youths belonging to poor families were arrested without any evidence, they said.
Mangalore: Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, Mr. AB Ibrahim said at the revenue officers meeting that, a scheme has been implemented to make sure that ever family from the Dakshina Kannada district will get ration cards, here recently.
On the occasion, Mr. Sharana Basapa, deputy director of the Food and Civil Supplies department said, “It was due to the Lok Sabha elections that the online filing of ration card applications had come to a standstill, which will soon resume.”
‘Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor and ornament to the rich’. These were the visions of Late Alhaj Adam Ebrahim Sait, founder president of Hasanath Educational Society and Group of Colleges.
Hasanath Educational Society was established in the year 1971. Today, they are running more than a dozen institutions in Bangalore. Hasanath College for women, Dickenson Road, Bangalore has been rated as one of the top ten commerce colleges in Bangalore as per the survey done by India Today magazine for the academic year 2012.
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today sent out a tweet appealing for the reinstatement of the five officials who were suspended for leaking her documents. Irani sent a tweet this morning appealing to the Vice Chancellor saying, “Since DU is an autonomous institution I have put forth my personal appeal to the VC to reinstate the officials.”
In a second tweet she said, “In public life one should be open to scrutiny and criticism. So am I.”
With a new Indian government in place, key areas of growth and business opportunities in the US-India commercial and business partnership have been highlighted by trade bodies of the two countries.
‘Growing Opportunities for US-India Trade and Investment’ were highlighted at a seminar organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Indo-American Market Gateway (IAMG) in partnership with Enterprise Florida in Miami Friday.
In a strong rebuttal to ONGC’s allegation that the state-owned firm’s gas was flowing out of KG-D6 wells, Reliance Industries has told the Delhi High Court that the legal proceedings initiated against it are “mala fide and actuated by malice.”
According to a survey conducted by Assocham, one in five kids in urban cities are overweight by the time he completes primary school and suffer from various lifestyle-related problems in later years.
Nearly 56 per cent of working mothers have unhealthy children followed by those who work part-time (28 per cent) and home makers (16 per cent), the survey revealed.
The reason – full-time working mothers are less likely to eat vegetables and fruits.
On Wednesday, The Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) began excavation within the heritage zone of Naya Qila, a subject of heated debate between locals and the association, reportedly using heavy machinery, including earthmovers.
According to P Anuradha Reddy, Heritage activist and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) Hyderabad Chapter convener, who went to visit the site, said there were at least four excavators and tractors which were pressed into service for digging or dumping within the Qila.
Counter to the expectations, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-in-waiting N. Chandrababu Naidu will not function for at least two months from the Secretariat premises after being sworn in as Chief Minister on June 8 at a place between Vijayawada and Guntur.
Instead, he will be operating from the Lake View Guest House situated on the Raj Bhavan Road.
Mr Naidu will administer his Chief Minister’s Office from this guest house for at least two months. Afterward, he will move into the ‘L’ Block located on the Secretariat premises.
Gold prices have tumbled more than Rs. 800 per 10 gm in the past four trading sessions through Wednesday intraday after the RBI eased restrictions on the trade.
On the other hand consumers and jewellers are not rushing to buy the precious metal as they expect prices to fall further. They widely look forward to a reduction in import duty, which at present is 10%.
Top B schools in the country, including many IIMs, XLRI, MDI- Gurgaon and Indian School of Business (ISB), will introduce lessons garnered from Narendra Modi’s electoral success into their curriculum for the new academic year, reports Devina Sengupta.
Nripendra Misra was formally named principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the government issued an ordinance on Wednesday evening, clearing the way for the appointment.
Though he had taken over on Tuesday itself, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Act made Misra “ineligible” for further employment at both the Centre and state government. Misra headed the regulator in 2006-09.
The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governments are planning to waive loans worth Rs.1 lakh crore. This is possibly the biggest loan waiver ever, say bankers.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) came back to power after a gap of 10 years on the promise of waiving loans worth Rs.82,000 crore taken by farmers and Self Help Groups.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), set to form the first Government in Telangana, had too promised to waive farmers’ loans up to Rs.1 lakh, totalling to about Rs.20, 000 crore.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has slammed Oil Ministry and its technical arm DGH for not exercising enough control and vigil over Reliance Industries’ KG-D6 block which led to losses of several hundred millions of dollars to the exchequer.
From not approving budgets for the year at the beginning of the year and monitoring expenditure according to the approved plan, the ministry was castigated for allowing costs of unapproved drilling programme and allowing RIL to retain area without any discovery.