A S Kashyap Angelo Mathews and Kaushal Silva produced contrasting performances on Friday to help Sri Lanka take a stable 166-run lead at stumps on the second day of the second Test against Pakistan in Colombo.
Resuming at an overnight score of 70-1, Sri Lanka suffered early blows when Kumar Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne were dismissed in a short span of time.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that there were no allegations of corruption against any ministers in the BJP Government, adding that the Centre has remained free of scams and scandals.
“There is no crisis at all. The government is functioning effectively. The government is focusing its attention on development and good governance. There is no allegation of any corruption against any ministers in Modi ji’s government. The government is doing an excellent job. There are no scams and no scandals,” Naidu said.
Former Delhi minister Somnath Bharti on Friday failed to keep his appointment with the DCW after the commission had served the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) leaderwith a notice in connection with a domestic violence charge.
“Somnath Bharti did not show up today. The next summons is for July 3. If he fails to come, we will file a report with the police,” DCW chief Barkha Shukla Singh said.
At least 27 people have been killed in an attack on a tourist hotel in the resort town of Sousse in Tunisia, an interior ministry official said.
The attack targeted the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the town, reported The Guardian.
A gunman, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, was among those killed. It’s not clear if there were other assailants.
Sousse is a popular tourist destination and draws visitors from Europe and other North African countries.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday accused the ruling BJP at the centre for not only sabotaging the processes of justice but also taking a sectarian view on fighting terror, regarding special public prosecutor Rohini Salian’s startling recent statement that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had asked her to go ‘soft’ in the 2008 Malegaon case after the NDA Government came to power.
The two superstars of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan may have patched up their personal relations, but there are signs of a rumored box office clash seeming likely in 2016.
YRF and Excel entertainment have announced, that their films ‘Sultan’, starring Salman and ‘Raees’ starring Shahrukh are eyeing Eid 2016 for their film’s release.
The director of Sultan, Ali Abbas Zafar recently tweeted, “So here is finally @BeingSalmanKhan in as SULTAN, “EID 2016”, revealing the first look of the film that has gained immense popularity.
CBI on Friday told a Delhi court that no fresh FIR has been lodged against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who has been given clean chit in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on allegations of influencing witness and money laundering.
The country’s low-cost Mars mission spacecraft that is in a rendezvous with the Red planet for an extended period has enough fuel for it to last “many years”, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman Kiran Kumar said on Friday.
Leading coffee shop chain operator Coffee Day Enterprises has filed its papers with regulator Sebi for an Initial Public Offer (IPO) to raise an estimated Rs 1,150 crore.
The company, which runs the country’s biggest coffee chain under the brand Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) and has got private equity giants like KKR, Stanchart PE and New Silk Route as its investors, has reserved Rs 15-crore worth shares for staff.
As per the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) filed with Sebi for the public offer, the company proposes to list its shares on the BSE and the NSE.
Cornering the Maharashtra government over its transparency claims, a noted RTI activist has sought to know from Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as to why were GRs pertaining to the alleged Chikki scam involving minister Pankaja Munde not uploaded on the official website.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Friday defended Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra in the Lalit Modi row, stating that neither had ever been a part of the government when the Congress was in power at the Centre and had met the disgraced former IPL chairman in an unofficial capacity.
The Congress general secretary further opined that the BJP was trying to fan the flames with regards to the meeting in an attempt to save face in light of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s revelations.
Canada’s Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Christian Paradis has announced that the Government of Canada will provide an additional CAD doillars 13 million in humanitarian assistance to support the continued relief efforts underway by experienced Canadian and international non-governmental organizations and United Nations humanitarian agencies responding to the needs of those affected by the earthquake in Nepal.
France on Friday launched a terror investigation after a decapitated body and a flag with Islamic inscriptions on it were found in Lyon.
Another person was injured in what is suspected to be an attack on a US gas factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier near the city of Lyon, reported the BBC.
Reports claimed that the attack was carried out by two assailants who drove into a factory carrying the flag.
Meanwhile, the anti-terror police have nabbed a suspect, officials said.
The Indian men’s hockey team will be fully geared to take on arch-rivals Pakistan in their high-octane thriller of the Hockey World League Semi-Final in Antwerp on Friday.
Although the Sardar Singh-led team has claimed two successive win by defeating France (3-2) and Poland (3-0), they were far from impressive.
Meanwhile, Pakistan edged past Poland 2-1 before being thrashed by world champions Australia 6-1 in their second match of the tournament.
Microsoft has launched an iPad version of Sway.
Sway was launched last October as a way to easily publish full webpage stories for whatever is on our mind.
Sway is already available on the Web and iOS.
According to thenextweb.com, Sway on iPad can create, view and share Sways in landscape mode and a Remix button allows user to quickly try out new layouts and styles.
Congress leader Sachin Sawant, who filed the complaint against Maharashtra Women and Children Development Minister Pankaja Munde with the state ACB, has alleged that he has been receiving threatening calls.
“I have been receiving threat calls since yesterday evening. Temporary police protection has been given to me. I will lodge an official complaint in the police station tomorrow,” Sawant told ANI. Detailed story to follow. (ANI)
New Reserve Strap for Apple Watch battery band claims to give a boost of 30 hours to the device.
The “Specialized Thermoset Elastometer Silicon band,” will have the same water resistance as the Apple Watch, and will be available in white, grey and black models at 249.99 dollars.
Both the straps for the 38mm and 42mm Watch will increase the battery life to “48 hours of functionality.”
The product adheres to Apple’s Band Design Guidelines and does not violate your AppleCare warranty.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his sympathy for the people killed in the recent devastating heatwave in Pakistan, his deputy spokesperson said.
In a press briefing, Farhan Haq said that Ban’s thoughts and sympathies have gone out to those who had been suffering and added that he hopes that the situation will improve very swiftly, reported the Dawn.
Haq said that he was unsure if Pakistan had asked for any humanitarian assistance from the UN and added that the international body will respond if such a request had been made.
A suicide attack at one of the largest Shia mosques in Kuwait has injured at least eight people.
The bomber targeted the Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in the Sawaber district during the Friday prayers, reported News24.
The injured have been rushed to hospitals, with two said to be in critical condition. (ANI)
Rejecting Congress’s criticism that the ‘Smart City’ project was “elitist” in nature, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that the NDA government’s ambitious plan was aimed at benefiting “the poor who are forced to live on the fringes of growing urbanisation.” Putting his claim to the test at a session on Housing-for- All in urban areas here, Naidu asked the members of the audience to give a frank opinion on whether they thought that the Smart City project was “pro-rich”.
Reliance Capital Asset Management Company (RCAM) and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership have been selected to manage Rs 60,000 crore provident fund corpus of coal industry workers, an government official has said.
The decision was taken by the board of trustees (BOT) of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation (CMPFO) in its meeting, chaired by Coal Secretary Anil Swarup, who is the Chairman of BOT, in Kolkata yesterday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have faced lot of flak for his team’s embarrassing ODI series defeat against Bangladesh but Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi is “not happy” in the manner the Indian ODI skipper was being targeted.
Afridi termed this as “sub-continental trend” where the cricketing heroes are pilloried after one odd series defeat.
A court today rejected the bail application moved by 35-year-old corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who is accused of mowing down two persons here on June 10 under the influence of alcohol.
“The application is rejected,” Magistrate Richa Khedkar said in her order while extending Gadkar’s judicial custody till July 10. Gadkar, through her lawyer Amit Desai had told the Kurla court that the investigation in the case is over and her custody is no longer required.
With the issue of “paid news” apparently weighing heavily on his mind, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday made a strong pitch for self-correcting mechanisms to check any aberrations.
“Regulation and restraint cannot come from any external source, but internally from system itself… from self-imposed code of conduct,” Mukherjee said here.
Noting that media has an important role to play in a democracy, he said newspapers must be keepers of the conscience of the country.
Religion-based societal violence in India was the ‘most significant’ human rights problem in the country in 2014, besides ‘widespread corruption’ and abuses by police and security force, according to a US State Department report.
In its annual Congressionally-mandated ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014’, the lengthy India section mentions a number of issues, including arbitrary arrest and detention, disappearances, hazardous prison conditions, and lengthy pretrial detention.