azra The telecommunication arm of the $4-billion Videocon Group, Videocon Telecom will bid for additional 2 Megahertz (Mhz) spectrum at the upcoming auction, each for the Punjab and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh telecom circles, a company statement said here Wednesday.
At present, it has 4.4 Mhz spectrum in Punjab and 5 Mhz spectrum in Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh telecom circles.
President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the decks for the formation of a minority AAP government with Congress backing in Delhi and chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal may be asked to prove majority by Jan 3, official sources said Wednesday.
According to the sources, the home ministry has received a formal communication from the president on government formation and this has been forwarded to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) Najeeb Jung.
“It means the LG can now decide when and where to hold the swearing-in ceremony,” a ministry official told IANS.
A meeting between senior military officials of Pakistan and India has its own symbolism and value, even with the two nations having an “unfortunate history of hostilities”, a leading Pakistani daily said Wednesday.
“The getting together of the directors general military operations of Pakistan and India at Wagah on Tuesday is significant, primarily because the meeting will improve understanding between men who, responsible for minding frontiers that have been the venue and source of sudden tensions gripping the two nations, are in the thick of it,” Dawn said in an editorial.
A police investigation has been launched into the death of a 22-year-old Indian woman in Sharjah.
The woman’s father told the police that he discovered his daughter hanging from a rope in her bedroom in Al Bardi Dec 22, Gulf News reported.
The man, currently in police custody, said he was shocked to see his only child hanging in her bedroom, said the report.
Police said the body was brought to hospital with signs showing that a rope had been tied around the neck.
An autopsy will be conducted to establish the cause of death.
People in Delhi can walk through, for a limited period beginning tomorrow, a 1.2-km long service tunnel under Connaught Place, the capital’s oldest shopping hub.
It was during the re-development of Connaught Place that the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) set up the tunnel to house underground cables and water supply lines, NDMC chief Jalaj Shrivastava said.
As part of its centenary celebrations, the NDMC will allow the public to see the tunnel under the guidance of trained officials. The entry will be from 11.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. – from Dec 26 to Jan 5.(IANS)
The fishing community in coastal Tamil Nadu, badly battered by the killer tsunami of 2004, now sports its original attitude – work and earn your livelihood rather than expecting doles, fishermen and NGO officials said. Post tsunami the fishing community also ensures that its children get educated at any cost while widow remarriage is not frowned upon.
West Indies One-Day international (ODI) captain Dwayne Bravo is lamenting the absence of Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Marlon Samuels from the side as it prepares to battle against New Zealand in an ODI series starting on Boxing Day.
The three players have been injured and will be unavailable for the five-match ODI series which opens at Eden Park Thursday.
Gayle is suffering from a hamstring, Pollard a knee injury and Samuels a chronic right-wrist injury.
The $1.8-trillion Indian economy suffered its worst slowdown in over a decade with growth below 5 percent for four straight quarters, amid threats of a ratings downgrade, even as policymakers and analysts now feel the worst may be over and the country will steadily move towards a higher rate of expansion.
In the first three quarters of the year for which official data is available, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew at below 5 percent — by 4.8 percent, 4.4 percent and 4.8 percent respectively in the first three quarters of the calendar year.
President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the decks for the formation of an AAP government with Congress backing in Delhi, official sources said Wednesday.
According to the sources, the home ministry has received a formal communication from the president on government formation and this has been forwarded to Delhi’s Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.
“It means the LG can now decide when and where to hold the swearing in ceremony,” a ministry official told IANS.
The resilient $270-billion plus Indian IT industry returned to the higher growth trajectory in 2013 and is hoping to gain momentum in the ensuing year for a greater share of the global multi-billion dollar outsourcing market.
Putting behind a turbulent 2012, the industry consolidated its presence in the software services sector, with its top four IT bellwethers – TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL – posting better results to register a healthy 12-14 percent growth thus far as against 10 percent last fiscal (2012-13).
The Congress said Wednesday that there is no rethink in the party on the “issue-based support” it has declared for an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi.
“There will be no rethinking on the issue-based support the Congress has given to AAP,” spokesman Sandeep Dikshit, also the son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, told TimesNow news channel.
He said the Congress was supporting the AAP because of the development-related promises made in its manifesto.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav said Wednesday that they do not have an alliance, tie-up and “not even an understanding” with the Congress and the AAP would “move out” if they do not get support for their issues.
“We have always clarified we do not have an alliance, a tie-up and not even have an understanding with the Congress party. In the absence of that we do not have rights and obligations and it is not for me to say what they should do and what they should not do,” Yogendra Yadav told reporters.
It was a chilly Christmas morning Wednesday here with the minimum temperature settling at 7.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast a clear day ahead.
“The afternoon will be sunny and there will be light mist in the evening,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.
The maximum temperature is expected to settle around 20 degrees Celsius.
Fog in parts of north India continued to affect trains as over 20 were delayed and three had to be rescheduled, A.S. Negi, spokesperson of Northern Railway said.
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who will be Delhi’s chief minister, Wednesday said that the swearing in ceremony was unlikely to take place Thursday as the party had not yet received a call from Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.
“We have not received any call from Lt Governor yet. It is unlikely that the oath taking ceremony will take place tomorrow (Dec 26),” Kejriwal told the media.
When it comes to immunity, women seem to leave men — especially those with high testosterone levels — way behind.
If we are to believe a new study, women have a stronger immune response than men when given the flu vaccine shot.
“Now we have literature to say that women have better responses in general to infectious diseases, including flu,” Mark Davis, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the
Stanford School of Medicine, was quoted as saying.
“Vaccinated women are better protected against catching the flu than vaccinated men,” he added.
In 2013, the centenary year of the over $2 billion world of Indian cinema, the Hindi film industry saw several high points – whether it was “Dhoom 3” becoming the fastest to mint Rs.100 crore ($22 million) in just three days, “Chennai Express” collecting a whopping Rs.216 crore or megastar Amitabh Bachchan making his initial foray into Hollywood.
IANS lists down Bollywood’s high points in the year gone by:
* New box office record: Around mid-2013, Shah Rukh Khan proved he is indeed the ‘badshah’ of Hindi films as his “Chennai Express” became the biggest grosser at Rs.216 crore.
It is essential to know that sins and acts of disobedience are, necessarily, very harmful. Their harm effects upon the heart are akin to the harmful effects of poison upon the body, though the effects vary in their levels and intensities. So is there any evil or harm in this world, or in the Hereafter, except that it is due to sins and disobedience?
So what was it that expelled the two parents [i.e. Adam and Eve] from Paradise; the home of delight, bliss, splendor and joy; to the home of pain, sorrow and misfortune?
Abdullah ibn Mas’ud radiallahu ‘anhu relates that the Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam would supplicate:
“O Allah! I ask You for guidance, piety, safety and well-being, and contentment and sufficiency.”
(Allahumma inni as ‘alukal-huda wat-tuqa wal-‘afafa wal-ghina.)
[Related by Muslim, no. 2721]
Imam as-Sa’di (d. 1376H) – rahimahullah – said in Bahjatul Qulubul-Abrar (p. 198):
“This du’a (supplication) is from the most comprehensive and beneficial du’a, since it includes asking Allah for well-being with regards to both the Religion and the World.
India’s over 1,000 fast track courts, set up for moving the wheels of justice faster, have decided more than 3.2 million cases in the past 11 years, but a whopping 32 million cases are still pending, according to available official data.
Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal said in the Lok Sabha that a total of 3,292,785 cases were disposed of by the 1,192 Fast Track Courts (FTCs) till March 2011. He said there are more than 32 million pending cases in high courts and subordinate courts across the country.
Here are the key points of Aam Aadmi Party’s election manifesto in Delhi:-
– That the Lokpal bill aimed at battling corruption and covering all employees will be passed within 15 days of coming to power.
– Around 3,000 “Mohalla Sabhas” to be set up where people would decide what they want for their areas — parks, street lights, dispensaries and so on.
– Payment for government work would be made only if Mohalla Sabha is satisfied with the work done.
After acting with popular actors like Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone now wants to work with other superstars – Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan.
“Every year I am asked this question (which Bollywood actor I would like to work with now), but I hope in the next one or two years I will get to work with Hrithik, Salman and Aamir,” Deepika, who has given four back-to-back hits this year, told reporters here at her success party.
“Till now I have not worked with these actors (Aamir, Salman and Hrithik),” she added.
The Prayer is a sanctified and holy moment (mawqif) for the worshipper in the presence of his Lord, his Rubb in truth. He fulfils (by its performance) his covenants, obligations and statements of confession which are contained within and are required by the testimony that:”There is nothing which has the right to be worshipped except Allah and that Muhammed is His Messenger” and by whose attestation one becomes a Muslim.
These covenants, obligations and resolutions: among them are those of belief, those of speech and those of action; and the explanation of that is as follows:
As for the next part of the question, about the most valuable quality to aim for, then the answer to this is that the best prize is to have trust in Allah, reliance upon Him of His sufficiency, and keeping a good opinion of Him, the latter being that if anyone is anxious regarding their sustenance then he should turn to the shelter of Allah, as the Exalted said, from what is narrated by His Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam:
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Ra)
Hadith (1):
Abdullah bin Omar (RadiyAllahu Anhu) narrates that once a person said to the Prophet (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam):
‘O Apostle of God ! Tell me who is the wisest and most farsighted of men.’
The Prophet (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) replied:
“He who remembers death much and makes the greatest preparation for it. They alone are wise and prudent who are like that. They earned respect in this world as well as glory in the Hereafter.”
[Tabrani]
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