azra The fate of governments in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will be known on Sunday when counting of votes will take place in the assembly elections, considered the semi-finals ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year.
Voting ranged between over 65 per cent in Delhi and over 81 per cent in Mizoram. Rajasthan recorded over 74 per cent, while Madhya Pradeshand Chhattisgarh over 70 per cent.
A former railway employee and a driver were among the seven people arrested Saturday on suspicion of involvement in the leak of question papers of a railway recruitment examination, an official in West Bengal said.
Cash, mobiles and some documents were seized from the arrested people, the official said.
The accused were arrested from Howrah during a joint operation by the railway vigilance team and police.
Tata Motors is all set to take its trucks to the racing track. If everything goes as planned, you will have the unusual spectacle of the big-built machines racing in March, 2014.
Tata Motors officials were unavailable for comment, but president of Federation of Motorsports Clubs of India (FMSCI) Vicky Chandhok gave IANS a sneak peek of the initiative.
Oscar award winner Resul Pookutty, actors Mammootty, Mohanlal, space scientist G. Madhavan Nair and a host of Kerala’s well known personalities from different fields will be honoured at an event in Dubai Dec 13.
The event is being organised by Gulf Madhyamam, a leading Malayalam daily, to commemorate the granting of classical status to Malayalam language in May this year.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors will arrive in Iran Saturday to check the Arak heavy water plant.
The inspectors will visit the Arak plant Sunday after Iran gave a positive response to the IAEA’s request, IRNA news agency reported.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and Director General of the IAEA Yukiya Amano signed a joint agreement Nov 11 on bilateral cooperation.
State Governor Hamsaraj Bharadwaj has once again applauded Chief Minister Siddaramaiah expressing satisfaction over his good governance. At the same time, the Governor has openly aired his resentment over the style of functioning of a few ministers in the Siddaramaiah cabinet.
The Governor has said he was happy over the performance of the CM who personally has no charges against him. “I have already told the CM several times about my displeasure over the functioning of a few ministers. But he has not yet been able to rectify the same,” Bharadwaj said.
APNGOs president P Ashok Babu today said union ministers and MPs of seemandhra have a last chance to oppose State bifurcation by tendering their resignation and withdrawing support to the UPA government.
Speaking to media, he said if union ministers and MPs belonging to seemandhra resign their post, there is possibility of preventing the bifurcation bill.
Calling upon the people to intensify the agitation in seemandhra following approval to bifurcation by union cabinet, Babu urged all leaders, irrespective of their political affiliation, to join the agitation.
Even as it acknowledged difficulties faced by countries like India in reducing oil purchases from Iran, the US said it would keep pressing them to enforce sanctions despite the landmark US-Iran nuclear deal.
“We’ve been very clear that as we negotiated the first-step agreement and as we negotiate the final agreement, the architecture, the core architecture of Iran’s oil and banking sector sanctions remain in place,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters Friday.
At 40, German supermodel Heidi Klum has given up lingerie modelling because she would no longer feel “comfortable” doing the catwalk wearing only a brassiere and briefs at this age.
“I wouldn’t model with my underwear down the runway anymore. I think I would find it a little uncomfortable, maybe,” contactmusic.com quoted Klum as saying.
“I still do photoshoots for (magazine) covers and different things or advertising stuff,” she added.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it would set up its first manufacturing unit in Brazil with an investment of up to 240 million pounds by 2020.
A landmark agreement between the iconic British luxury carmaker and the Brazilian authorities will result in a plant-based in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
It will initially employ 400 people and generate additional jobs in the supply chain, aimed at an annual production capacity of 24,000 vehicles.
India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves jumped by $5.03 billion to $291.30 billion for the week ended Nov 29, helped by a sharp increase in foreign currency assets, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed.
This is the fourth consecutive week of gain in the country’s foreign exchange reserves.
Forex reserves had soared by $2.69 billion to $286.26 billion during the week previous to this.
A day before the declaration of assembly election results, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Saturday that she did not believe in exit polls and surveys.
“We don’t work on the basis of surveys. I would say respectfully, I don’t believe in these surveys,” Dikshit said in response to a question about surveys that are indicating a tough fight for the New Delhi seat from where she contested.
Three-time chief minister Dikshit is up against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Vijendra Gupta and Aam Aadmi Party’s Arvind Kejriwal for this seat.
Researchers have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver.
They said that the discovery may help their understanding of how skin diseases can affect the rest of the body.
Professor Susanne Mandrup and her research group in collaboration with Nils Faergeman’s research group at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark was actually studying something completely different when they made the groundbreaking discovery.
From evergreen Dev Anand to superstar Rajesh Khanna, Asha Parekh has worked with most leading stars of Indian cinema except Dilip Kumar and the 71-year-old veteran actress confesses that she is still waiting to work with the thespian.
She got great opportunities to work with Shammi Kapoor in hits “Dil Deke Dekho” and “Teesri Manzil”, Dev Anand in “Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai” and Rajesh Khanna in “Aan Milo Sajna” and “Kati Patang”, but never got a chance to share the screen with Dilip Kumar.
The Messenger, SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam, said:
“He who says to his brother ‘O disbeliever’, then it returns upon one of them.”
He also said: “And he who accuses a believer of kufr (disbelief) then it is like killing him.”
Al-Imam an-Nawawi said:
“They differ as regards interpretation of this ‘returning’, so it is said, ‘kufr returns upon him if he is making that lawful’, and this is far from the context of the narration, and it is said, ‘it is taken to refer to the Khawarij’, since they declare believers to be kafirun (disbelievers).”
Al-Imam al-Hafidh ibn Hajr says:
Income tax raids on many cooperative housing societies across Karnataka led to unearthing of Rs.300 crore of unaccounted income, a senior official said Friday.
“Investigations, which began in September-October and are still continuing, revealed that many housing societies did not file income tax returns nor deducted TDS on payments made to developers,” income tax spokesman Lokesha said here.
Search and seizure operations also found the societies making huge cash payments to realty firms without proper receipts.
The Delhi High Court Thursday denied relief to a Jamia Millia Islamia student against his expulsion for three years for misbehaving with a girl student.
A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Manmohan dismissed the plea of Mohammad Monish, a first year under-graduate student, against a single judge bench’s order asking the university to expel him for three years.
“It is a serious issue. Considering his attitude towards the girl and also that he threatened to kill her, allowing him in the campus would be dangerous,” the bench said while dismissing his plea.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday the party cannot underestimate the power of the opposition and that there was no room for complacency.
“As an organised political party, we cannot underestimate the power of the opposition to unsettle the ship of the state,” he said during an interactive session at the HT Leadership Summit while replying to a question on the challenge posed by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
“Therefore, I am one of those who take our opponents very seriously. There is no room for complacency,” he said.
Normal life came to a grinding halt in all 13 districts of Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions Friday to protest the union cabinet’s approval to a draft bill for formation of separate Telangana state.
Transport services were paralysed as over 12,000 buses of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) went off the roads in Seemandhra, as the two regions are together known.
“Let there be a fourth war between India and Pakistan to teach them a lesson,” Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said Friday.
Pakistan has thrice been taught a lesson in past wars, but that has not had a deterrent effect on that country so it needs to be taught a lesson again, Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ Friday.
State election results have taken Tarun Tejpal off prime time shows and the front pages. This is something of a relief.
On Nov 7-8, past midnight, after extensive partying at what was billed to be a THINK fest at a five star hotel in Goa, the feisty proprietor editor of Tehelka magazine followed one of his junior reporters, a friend of his daughter’s, and allegedly did things to her which under a revised law is tantamount to rape. Strangely, something similar happened the subsequent day too.
Delhi will experience a clear and warm weather Friday, forecasts the Met Office. The minimum temperature was recorded at 10 degrees Celsius, a notch above season’s average.
“The day will remain clear with shallow fog in the morning. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 25.5 degrees Celsius, a notch above season’s average,” said an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official.
Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was recorded at 79 percent.
Thursday’s maximum temperature was a notch above season’s average at 25.5 degrees Celsius, while the minimum was 10.1 degrees Celsius. (IANS)
The topic of du’a and its relationship with destiny (qadr) is a very important one, and one around which much confusion exists. Many people ask:
“If everything has already been destined to occur, then of what use is du’a, as, if Allah has written what I want, I will get it without making du’a, and if it is not written for me, then I will never get it no matter how much du’a I make?”
In one of his articles, Dr. Bilal Philips (a famous Islamic scholar) narrates a story that involves tragedy, drama, and joy. The story is about an Egyptian teacher whose photograph appeared in a local newspaper. The picture showed his smiling and happy face with his hands stretched out and both thumbs sticking up; his father was kissing him on one cheek and his sister on the other cheek.
Everything has its indications and signs. Indications that knowledge is beneficial are that it leads to fine character, good manners and praiseworthy attributes. In this regard it was said:
“He whose knowledge doesn’t cause him to weep, can be justifiably considered not to have been granted beneficial knowledge”, since Allah described the people of knowledge saying: