faheem Despite a marked reduction in the consumption of agricultural power, power cuts in Hyderabad city continue unabated.
While citizens have been subjected to frequent po-wer cuts in most areas, low voltage is causing damage to electrical appliances as well.
“Power cuts in our area without warning, particularly late in the night, have become a real problem.
Sleepless nights make it difficult to concentrate on work during the day,” lamented Anjali T., a city resident.
A 21-year-old Pakistani woman, who was pregnant, was allegedly smothered to death by her husband and his parents, who later claimed she may have been killed by an evil spirit, a British court has heard.
Nalia Mumtaz was born in Pakistan and entered into an arranged marriage with her husband- then a student at Wolverhampton University- in August 2007. She came to Britain for the first time in May 2008 and moved into his parents’ three-bedroom home in Birmingham, media reported.
A seven- day-old baby girl was abandoned by her parents at the Rohtak PGI Hospital in Haryana on Friday. According to eye witnesses, the baby was brought to the hospital by her parents three days ago but on Friday they seemed to have disappeared leaving her behind.
Hospital records show the little girl was born premature baby and had been diagnosed with jaundice which is why she was brought to the hospital.
For now, the condition of the baby is said to be stable and the hospital authorities have lodged a complaint with the police and who have already started looking for the couple.
After decades of shying away from an ancient pilgrimage route, Muslims are visiting Jerusalem to pray at Islam’s third-holiest site, the revered Al-Aqsa mosque.
In doing so, they find themselves caught in a disagreement between some leading Muslim clerics, who oppose such pilgrimages, and Palestinian leaders who encourage them as evidence of the city’s Muslim credentials.
After the film about a woman who turns into a hooker to get even with the man who wronged her, here’s an even bigger shocker. Producer-director Vikram Bhatt is all set to make a film on the taboo subject of wife-swapping with the bold-and-the-uninhibited Rehana Sultan of this millennium Paoli Dam in the lead.
She was almost written off when she arrived in Bollywood. Nearly a decade later, with three Yash Raj projects, three reigning Khans as her co-stars and endorsements galore, actress Katrina Kaif says reality is far better than dreams.
Katrina, 27, has teamed up with ex-boyfriend Salman Khan in “Ek Tha Tiger”, Aamir Khan in “Dhoom 3” and Shah Rukh Khan for an untitled film — all are being made under Yash Raj Films (YRF).
Not just that. Veteran director Yash Chopra is directing her film with Shah Rukh.
While St Aloysius Pre-University College in Mangalore has banned wearing of burqas in classrooms and examination halls, students in Mysore felt that such a burqa should not be implemented in any college.
This is a eclection year in Gujarat and Chief Minister Narendra Modi wants to register a thumping and record break victory by securing more than 140 seats out of 182 seats of the state assembly. For this purpose, it is well on cards that the sale of beef in the state will be very serious crime and the state government is trying to implement some laws to stop cow slaughter.
Arjun Kapoor idolizes Salman Khan, the actor whom Arjun looks up to, aspires to be and seeks inspiration from. When Arjun showed the trailers of Ishaqzaade to Salman Khan, the actor liked it and said “good”. Arjun says that it means a lot to him. If Salman Khan isn’t criticizing or being negative about something that means he has liked it. The ‘Ishaqzaade’ boy also reveals that if Salman is close to somebody then he minces no words.
In the wake of the objections raised by Deoband’s Islamic seminary Darul Uloom and other Muslim organisations, a scholar of Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University has offered not to conduct a research on the works of author Salman Rushdie.
Prabha Parmar’s topic for a post-doctoral fellowship was ‘The use of magic realism in the major novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitabh Ghosh and Vikram Seth’. The fellowship, awarded by the UGC, had created a hue and cry among Muslims.
A week after India successfully tested a long-range missile, Pakistan yesterday said it had also fired an upgraded nuclear-capable device in a reminder of the ongoing arms race that has gripped Asia.
Officials in Pakistan said they had completed a positive trial of the Shaheen-1A, an intermediate range missile that is capable of reaching targets across India. Officials said the missile came down in the Indian Ocean.
A Delhi court today dismissed a plea for lodging an FIR against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for allegedly beating a man after he purportedly tried to attack party spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi with a shoe last June.
Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Jay Thareja rejected the plea of complainant Sunil Kumar Sharma, who had allegedly tried to attack Dwivedi on June 6 last year at the AICC headquarters, saying that he had not appeared before the court on the last two hearings to present his case.
Will 100-century man Sachin Tendulkar sit on seat number 100 in Rajya Sabha? This question was posed by quizmaster-turned-politician Derek O’Brien today shortly after the 39-year-old batting maestro was recommended by Government for nomination as a member of the House of Elders.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court convicted the prime minister of contempt on Thursday but handed him a symbolic sentence of less than a minute’s detention, allowing him to leave the building surrounded by cheering supporters and still in power.
The ruling against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani triggered renewed political turmoil and could lead to his dismissal in the coming months. The tensions risk consuming a government already burdened with major economic and security challenges.
There’s nothing astoundingly enlightening about the fresh revelation on the Bofors scandal by Swedish investigator Sten Lindstorm. Much of what he says has been in the public domain in India in the form of speculation, insinuation and documented facts for the last 25 years. Every aspect of the Rs 64-crore payoff case has been dissected threadbare, discussed and hyped so much that nothing new would surprise someone following the case from its beginning in April 1987, the day Swedish Radio broke the story to the world.
South Central Railway (SCR) announced the travel distance under ‘IZZAT’ Monthly Season Ticket Scheme has been increased from 100 Km to 150 Km with effect from June one, 2012.
In a release, the SCR here said as announced in the Railway Budget 2012-13, the increase in travel distance will be permissible on tickets purchased on and after June 1.
In case of tickets issued before June 1, 2012, the increase in travel distance will not be admissible.
—UNI
Sunidhi Chauhan is perhaps the prettiest playback singer we have in Bollywood (hardcore Shreya Ghoshal fans may disagree). Her sultry good looks and single status had made her the dreamgirl of millions of starry-eyed youngsters. Well, eat your heart out boys n guys!!!
You got to hand it over to Poonam Pandey. Even though the girl has no film or substantial work to her credit, she still manages to make headlines day after day.
The girl who first shot to limelight when she promised to strip if Team India won the cricket World Cup has 1 million followers on Twitter and continues to make sensational statements. After being in news for almost a year, Poonam has finally signed her first Bollywood with Amit Saxena (who directed ‘Jism’) and already making tall claims about her acting abilities.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan has been summoned by the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Jaipur for publicly smoking in the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on April 8 during an IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. On the basis of news reports, a complaint was filed against the actor by Anand Singh Rathore, who moved court against the actor.
Firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharati today charged that only Hindus were targetted over questionable practices in the name of religion.
“I do not wish to say anything on Nirmal Baba issue, neither in favour of him nor against him. But I do feel there is a widespread tendency to target Hindus when it comes to questionable practices in the name of religion”, Bharati told reporters here.
Bharati’s comments came in the wake of a spate of complaints of fraud against Nirmaljeet Singh, alias Nirmal
Snoring, allowing kids to sleep in the bed and leaving the reading light on are among the many reasons why couples argue in the bedroom at least 167 times a year, a study has found.
One in 10 couples in Britain has a night-time fight at least twice a week over their partner’s “sound effects” while sleeping, said the study by Premier Inn, one of the biggest hotel brands in Britain.
More than 20 percent lose two hours sleep every night because of noise. Ten percent said they were even considering splitting up because of it, the Daily Express reported.
Jaipur, the Pink City, is hosting a two-day ninth All India Muslim Conference on Education on May 5 and 6 at Birla Auditorium. It will be ninth conference organized by All India Muslim Educational Society.
Union law minister Salman Khurshid, Union minister of state for human resource development E Ahmed along with Wajahat Habibullah, chairman, National Commission for Minorities will participate in a session on May 6.
The US has said there is no change in its policy to deny visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
“Our position on the visa issue hasn’t changed at all,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference yesterday.
Nuland was responding to questions on the letter written by Congressman Joe Walsh to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that the US Government reverse its 2005 decision not to issue US visa to Modi.
The letter by Walsh was written about a fortnight ago.
“If we do respond, it’ll be along familiar lines,” Nuland said.
Police in the Russian capital said Wednesday they will examine a video in which a prominent Muslim lawyer pledges to “cover Russia in blood” if the authorities refuse to establish courts to implement Islamic law.
“May be you are foreigners here, and this is our home. We will set our rules, whether you want this or not,” Dagir Khasavov, a lawyer and aide to an upper house committee chairman, said in an interview with the REN TV channel.
“Any attempts to stop this will result in blood. We will turn the city (Moscow) into a second dead sea,” he was quoted as saying.
Tendulkar for Rajya Sabha nomination, meets Sonia Gandhi New Delhi: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar met Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday amid speculation in party circles that he would be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Congress leaders said Tendulkar and his wife Anjali paid “a courtesy visit” to Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence. They said Gandhi was keen to greet the cricketer on his feat of scoring 100 international centuries.
Indian Premier League chairman Rajiv Shukla, who is also Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, was present on the occasion.