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India favourites to retain World Cup: Tendulkar

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With exactly 500 days to go before the first ball is bowled in the 2015 Cricket World Cup, batting wizard Sachin Tendulkar has predicted that the trophy will remain in the subcontinent and India are favourites to retain the title.

Tendulkar, who along with Pakistan’s Javed Miandad is the only player to play in six World Cups, hoped that if Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side successfully defended the title, then it will once again provide tremendous joy to the nation while making it only the third country after the West Indies and Australia to win back-to-back titles.

Modi Wants To Dump Telangana to become PM

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After the political parties in Andhra Pradesh, it is now the turn of the BJP to be affected by the Telangana statehood issue.

The national leadership of the saffron party is said to be vertically divided over the sensitive issue.

Though the BJP has been steadfastly in support of the bifurcation of the state, the new star of the saffron party and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is now believed to be suggesting a U-turn on the issue in order to firm up an alliance with the Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam party.

Dead Hearts

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While thousands of Muslims are killed all over the world, and while tens of thousands are imprisoned and tortured for calling to the path of Allah and for enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, most Muslims remain remarkably silent and have no worry except for the material things of life. Their hearts have been filled with the love of this life and the forgetfulness of the Hereafter.

Virtues of Zamzam

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Praise be to Allah.

Imam ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “Zamzam water is the best and noblest of all waters, the highest in status, the dearest to people, the most precious and valuable to them. It was dug by Jibril and is the water with which Allah quenched the thirst of Isma’il.”

It was reported in Sahih Muslim that the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said to Abu Dharr (R.A.), who had stayed near the Ka’bah and its coverings for forty days and nights with no food or drink other than (Zamzam),

“How long have you been here?”

Biggest Change in My Life, The Hijab

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As salamu ‘alaykum warahmatuallah wabarakatuh

I want to talk to you about my life before and after hijab. I am a Muslim girl 20 years old from Arabian Gulf, “The original place of Islam.” I used to believe that hijab is not an important issue. And it’s lacking my freedom. So I decided that I would never were hijab as long as I live. Although my mother wears hijab but she never convinces my sisters or me to wear it. She thought that you have to believe in it to do it or else you will take it off as soon as we are far away from her. And I think that it might be right in some way.

Professionals spend less time on grooming

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It seems officegoers prefer to spend a few minutes extra in bed than getting up early and spending some time on dressing up.

A study reveals that in Britain, more than three-quarters of people do not give self-grooming more than 10 minutes in the morning before heading out to work.

The study carried by Broadgate London, an office and retail estate, has revealed that up to 70 percent of people working in London were only able to spend 10 minutes choosing what to wear for work, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

500 Congress workers, 22 leaders join Tripura Trinamool

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Over 500 Congress workers and 22 local leaders joined the newly formed Tripura unit of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the party’s chairman in the state, Ratan Chakraborty, said Sunday.

“Over 500 Congress workers led by 22 local leaders joined TMC today (Sunday). More top Congress leaders, members and supporters would soon join the party (TMC),” Chakraborty told reporters.

In the presence of the leaders and workers who joined the party from the Congress, Chakraborty said that the TMC would now be the key opposition party to oust the ruling Left Front from the helm of affairs in Tripura.

Muslims who saw killings won’t go back: Muslim leader

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Muslims who saw armed gangs drag out innocents and slaughter them in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh are refusing to go back to their villages, a Muslim leader said Sunday.

Zafar Islam Khan, president of the All India Majlis-e-Mushawarat, also said that the horrendous communal riots were the work of Hindutva forces but the Uttar Pradesh government was also to blame for inaction.

Modi’s long shadow creates a rift in Chicago

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The shadow of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and his alleged complicity in the 2002 communal riots in his state, has created a controversy here with the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (CPWR) withdrawing its support to the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda.

The CPWR was formed in 1893 and organized the conference which Vivekananda addressed in Chicago that year.

All well in Hrithik-Sussanne’s relationship

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Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan has rubbished rumours that he and his wife Sussanne, an interior designer, are headed for the splitsville.

The 39-year-old, currently busy with the release of his next superhero movie “Krrish 3”, trashed the news about their divorce via micro-blogging website Twitter.

“Just a thought – your life is less about you and more about the people around you who love you!” he tweeted.

Sussanne’s sister, jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali, too blasted the gossipmongers for spreading the bogus news on the micro-blogging site.

Chelsea go top; Liverpool shocked

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Chelsea recorded their first win in four games after beating west London rivals Fulham 2-0 and moved to the top of the English Premier League but previous leaders Liverpool were stunned by Southampton.

After consecutive defeats to Everton and FC Basel, Jose Mourinho’s side Saturday was in desperate need of a victory but they still struggled to create chances in the first half, reports Xinhua.

The Blues went ahead in the 52nd minute when Oscar scored from six metres out after David Stockdale had failed to hold Andre Schurrle’s shot.

West should accept Iran’s n-enrichment right: Rouhani

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Sunday urged the West to accept his country’s nuclear enrichment right.

“Enrichment inside Iran and within international rules and conventions should be endorsed” by Western powers, said Rouhani at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, .

Making the remark, the president reasserted Iran’s long time position that nuclear enrichment was the “inalienable right” of the country, reported Xinhua.

THE OPENING ADDRESS OF DEMON’S CONVENTION

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Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said,
We can’t keep Muslims from going to Masjid.
We can’t keep them from reading their Quran and knowing the truth.
We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Allah and his messenger Muhammad (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam).

Once they gain that connection with Allah, our power over them is broken.

Bollywood has no stories to tell: John Abraham

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John Abraham, who has been propagating off-beat and “sensible” films in a space full of masala entertainment, believes that Bollywood currently lacks “sensible” stories to tell.

“We lack stories. We have no stories to tell. We put five songs with five comedy scenes and say it’s done,” John told IANS in an interview.

That’s one reason why the 40-year-old is loving and enjoying every bit of his new role as a film producer. Thanks to it, he is being able to serve the audience with eclectic movies – the entertaining “Vicky Donor” and the engaging “Madras Cafe”.

Pakistan again violates ceasefire in Kashmir — India

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Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir late Saturday, an army spokesman said Sunday.

Indian troops retaliated, and the exchange of gunfire continued till the early hours of Sunday.

“Pakistani troops fired at our positions in Hamirpur area of the LoC in Rajouri without any provocation late last night (Saturday),” defence spokesman Captain S.N. Acharya told IANS.

Digvijaya Singh criticised Narendra Modi, calling him “Feku (pretender) Modi”

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Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh Sunday criticised BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, calling him “Feku (pretender) Modi” for giving “fake figures” of growth during the BJP-led NDA regime.

The criticism came after the Gujarat chief minister reached out to the Indian diaspora while addressing the annual national convention of the US chapter of Overseas Friends of Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP) at Tampa, Florida, through satellite video Saturday.

“Feku Modi at his best. Giving fake figures of growth during NDA regime,” Digvijaya Singh posted on Twitter.

Asad Rauf charged in IPL betting scandal

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Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf and the son-in-law of the Indian cricket board’s (BCCI) president were charged by Mumbai Police on Saturday in a betting scandal surrounding the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament.

Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI president N. Srinivasan, was arrested in May after being quizzed by police probing illegal betting on the Twenty20 league.

A total of 22 people have been charged for gambling, cheating and fraud, the police said.

Over 50 killed in Pakistan church bombings

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Two suicide bombers Sunday morning blew themselves up near a church in Pakistan’s Peshawar city when worshippers gathered for Sunday prayers, killing at least 56 people and injuring more than 70, media reports said.

Geo News said Peshawar Police Commissioner Sahibzada Anees confirmed the toll.

It was the worst terror attack on a minorities’ gathering in the country.

Anees put the figure of those injured at 45, reported Xinhua.

The Dawn News put the toll at 43, and the number of injured at 70.

A policeman, four women and four children were among those killed.

Man held for assaulting wife over tea

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A man in Odisha was arrested for assaulting his wife because she served him a cup of tea that wasn’t warm enough, police said here Sunday.

The incident took place Friday at Basudia village in Nayagadh district, about 100 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, but came to light a day later after the victim lodged a complaint at the Ranapur police station.

Melcha Chandra Pradhan, 40, asked his wife Rama, 38, to prepare a cup of hot tea for him. But he got angry when he found the tea served to him wasn’t warm enough.

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