Asian News International Syria’s main opposition bloc failed to agree on a prime minister during a weekend summit in Turkey, participants said, the latest setback for a coalition long beset by internal divisions.
A member of the National Coalition who declined to be named said the biggest dispute at the Istanbul meeting centered around a split between the favored candidates of vital funders Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Can our typing style reveal our emotions? If we believe researchers here, a new computer programme can recognise people’s emotions based on how they type.
An emotionally intelligent online system can change teaching style or the contents of its lectures to better adapt to a particular student’s emotional state, a team of researchers noted.
“A computer interface that is intelligent enough to interact with humans can detect user emotions and change its behaviour accordingly,” wrote researchers from the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh in the study.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has named its joint general secretary Krishna Gopal as its new pointsman for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), replacing Suresh Soni who was not said to be on best of terms with the party’s top brass.
The RSS top functionaries took the decision to appoint Gopal who had extensively worked in coordination with the BJP in key states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during Lok Sabha polls.
“The RSS has decided to appoint Krishna Gopal as the party’s new Coordinator to deal with the party (BJP),” All- India Prachar Pramukh of RSS Manmohan Vaidya said.
Former ‘Hannah Montana’ star Miley Cyrus says criticism does not bother her.
The 24-year-old pop star star made an appearance on Australian TV program ‘Sunrise’ to deliver some of her biggest hits and talked about her ‘crazy’ persona, reportedly.
“No it really doesn’t bother me when people tell me I’m crazy because I am. The thing is my dad always told me the most important thing – and I grew up around people like Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton and those people are not normal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed satisfaction at the comprehensive nature of bilateral ties between India and Canada and called for engagements in areas of trade, investment, energy and healthcare.
At a meeting with visiting Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and International Trade Minister Ed Fast, Modi welcomed close cooperation between the two countries and expressed satisfaction at ties, including in areas of economic cooperation, agriculture, security, civil nuclear energy, education, and science and technology.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday termed Narendra Modi as a “weak” Prime Minister whom Pakistan does not take seriously and unabated ceasefire violations by the neighbouring country are a testimony to it.
He also alleged that the border skirmishes were highest since Modi assumed the office.
The Election Commission today issued a show cause notice to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged remarks against non-Maharashtrians and claiming that once his party comes to power, their entry in the state will be barred.
Issuing him a notice for prima facie violating the model code of conduct, the EC gave Raj time till October 15 morning to respond to it, failing which the poll body will take a decision without further reference to him.
Power supply to cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s palatial residence was cut off today by a Pakistani firm over non-payment of electricity bills amounting to over Rs. 1,00,000.
The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) cut off power supply to Mr Khan’s Bani Gala residence. An official of the company said that Mr Khan had three power connections, two for the main residence and a third for a tube-well.
Geo reported that the amount of non-paid bills was over Rs. 1,00,000. Earlier, the company had sent a notice warning of cutting the supply if the bills were not cleared.
Karnataka Government will have no objection to shift AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa to Tamil Nadu from a jail here if the neighbouring state makes a request through courts, Home Minister K J George said today.
“If there is a proposal coming before the court from the Tamil Nadu government, we have no objection to shifting (Jayalalithaa),” George told PTI here.
Providing respite to common man ahead of Diwali, falling food prices pulled down the September retail inflation to 6.46 percent, lowest since the new series of Consumer Price Index was released in January 2012, although experts do not see a rate cut by RBI any time soon.
Although retail inflation, which has been on decline since July, is below the RBI target of 8 percent by January 2015, experts said the central bank is expected to reduce interest in the next fiscal (2015-16) only.
Asserting that the problem of terrorism in India was imported, President Pranab Mukherjee has said indigenous terrorist activity was “extremely negligible” with hardly any involvement of the 150 million Muslims of the country.
“Of course there may be one or two out of hundred fifty million but all of these are imported. These are coming from outside. Indigenous terrorist activity in India is extremely negligible and whenever such signs are visible we take appropriate steps,” he said in interviews to the Norwegian media ahead of his two-day state visit to Norway.
Domestic passenger car sales declined 1.03 per cent to 1,54,882 units in September from 1,56,494 units in the year-ago month.
Motorcycle sales last month climbed 19.34 per cent to 10,56,509 units from 8,85,309 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).
The total two-wheeler sales in September rose 23.81 per cent to 15,67,351 units.
Sales of commercial vehicles rose 8.59 per cent to 56,140 units in September, SIAM said.
Several Palestinians were injured and one was arrested Monday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian security sources told the local Maan news agency.
Thirty five Israeli military vehicles entered Palestinian territory to escort a group of about 300 Jewish pilgrims who came to pray at the funerary monument, Joseph’s Tomb, the sources added.
Palestinian youths threw stones, bottles, petrol bombs and other objects at the convoy of buses and armoured vehicles.
The shutdown called by the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) to protest the gang rape of six women in Bihar’s Bhojpur district hit rail and road traffic, police said Monday.
CPI(M-L) workers and supporters blocked railway tracks, thereby affecting half a dozen trains while disrupting road traffic since early Monday morning.
A district administration official said the shutdown evoked mixed response with normal life in Ara, district headquarters of Bhojpur, partially hit.
Dirty paper plates and bowls, ice-cream covers and empty chips packets, and dry husks of roasted corn strewn on both sides of the road and all over lawns – it was business as usual on Sunday evening at the Rajpath boulevard near India Gate – the capital’s landmark site from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the ‘Clean India Mission’ less than two weeks ago.
Minister for IT and communications KT Rama Rao addressing the gathering at the second annual Pega Developers Conference here on Sunday said,“If India is considered a back office solutions provider, we want Hyderabad to emerge as a hotbed for innovation and product development”.
“We understand and respect that the world looks up to us as a competent back office hub, but we need to be more. We need to be known not just for our programming skills but also for our entrepreneurial capabilities,” he said.
From the last three days, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has been camping in New Delhi to seek a special category status for Telangana, but the Planning Commission look as if it is not keen on considering it at least not in the near future.
On Saturday, Mr Rao met Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and sought special status for Telangana state, similar to what is being extended to Andhra Pradesh.
Apart from a kitchen for the mid-day meal scheme, girl students of Zilla Praja Parishad High School in Dammaiguda in the city will have washrooms.
Usha Sharma Charya, an NRI, has built washrooms through her NGO called The JJ Mette Memorial Foundation for girls students.
The washrooms and the kitchen were inaugurated by Ranga Reddy District Education Officer, G. Ramesh, here on Sunday. The maintenance of the washrooms were look after by the foundation.
Love jehad, forced conversions, cow slaughter and upcoming Assembly polls will be some of the most important issues on the agenda for the RSS’ annual meet that will begin in Lucknow on Tuesday.
“Akhil Bhartiya Karyakari Mandal” consist of top Sangh leaders will conveyed the meeting in Lucknow after a gap of many years andwill make an assessment of the NDA government’s performance.
According to Sangh functionary, the meet also make suggestions for Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and other states.
It is undeniably that superstar Mahesh Babu is Tollywood Overseas king which is once again proved with the Supserstar’s new film in Koratala Siva direction.
Classic Entertainments, the distribution company bought Allu Arjun, Trivikram Srinivas untitled movie Overseas rights for Rs 6 crores obtained the Overseas distribution rights of Mahesh Babu untitled movie for Rs 8.1 Crores.
Despite the talk, Mahesh Babu films do a minimum of $1 to $1.5 million business in USA. Of late, Aagadu with negative reviews was able to collect around $1.5 M on full run.
Security expert Alok Bansal on Monday described the unfurling of Islamic State (IS) flag in the valley by some Kashmiri youths as serious, saying the time has come for the Indian Government to undertake a massive deradicalisation programme to tackle the menace.
Describing the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to be corrupt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the former has not only looted government exchequer in Maharashtra but also destroyed the dreams of two generations.
“NCP has robbed Maharashtra during its rule. They have not only looted the government exchequer but also destroyed the dreams of two generations,” he said while addressing a rally in Ratnagiri.
The foreign exchange earning from tourism has gone up by 4.6 percent in comparison with the last year, Union Tourism Minister Shripad Yasso Naik said here today hoping that measures like tourist visa on arrival and electronic travel authorisation would considerably contribute to the earnings.
“Foreign exchange earning from tourism during January to August 2014 was USD 12.739 billion with a growth of 4.6 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2013,” Naik said at a function here.
International Master S L Narayanan needs just a draw against China’s Wei Yi in the eighth round to secure a Grandmaster norm in the World Junior Chess Championship now underway here.
After winning the national junior championship some time back, Narayanan had announced his arrival in the Indian chess scene and the youngster has lived up to expectations in the premier event for junior players here.
A revolutionary new bionic eye implanted into a 66-year-old blind man in the US has allowed him to ‘see’ for the first time in 33 years.
Larry Hester was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa when he was in his early 30s. At the time, the degenerative disease that would rob his sight was poorly understood, and there were no known treatments, researchers said.
On October 1, 2014, Hester became only the seventh person in the US to have a so-called bionic eye – an Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Device – activated as a visual aid to send light signals to his brain.