Gali Nagaraja A pattern of disturbed sleep could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease, suggest scientists.
Working on a mouse model, researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, found that when the first signs of Alzheimer’s plaques appear in the brain, the normal sleep-wake cycle is significantly disrupted.
Believing that he and his family were victims of black magic, a 30-year-old man here strangled to death his wife and daughter and then set his two other children afire before killing himself early Thursday, police said.
The shocking incident took place around 5.30 a.m. in Kothrud locality. Parshuram Mallappa Kalkatti, a labourer from Karnataka, overpowered and strangulated his wife Gayatri, 30, and daughter Payal, 7, as they slept in their hutment.
California’s Indian-American attorney general Kamla Harris drew from her own experience to describe the November presidential election as a choice between an America with opportunity for all or tilted to the wealthiest few.
“We are here because we love our country, and we firmly believe in the American ideal that our country should work for everyone,” said the daughter of a Tamil Indian immigrant mother and a Jamaican-American father Wednesday.
An anti-government organisation has claimed the Syrian military Wednesday killed at least 115 people in a massacre in Aleppo province.
The Syrian Local Coordination Committees, an umbrella organisation of 14 anti-government groups, said 25 of those killed were children.
Around 5,000 people died in Syria’s civil war in August, making it the deadliest month since violence started almost 18 months ago, according to activist groups.
More than 26,000 people have died in the conflict that started in March 2011.
—IANS
China should deepen its defence ties with India, as the agreement reached by the two countries to resume joint military exercises still represented a “low level of cooperation,” official media said today.
Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie’s talks with his Indian counterpart A K Antony yesterday shows an important effort that China made to increase mutual trust and reduce strategic errors, said Ruan Zongze, deputy director of the China Institute of International Studies.
The state is justified in denying recognition to unaided schools if it adversely affects the interests of the government run-aided schools, the Supreme Court has held.
State Bank of India today announced a cut of up to 1 per cent in interest rate for fixed deposits across maturities, a development which may prompt other banks to follow suit.
“The new rates would be effective from September 7,” State Bank of India, the country’s largest bank said in a statement.
When asked about the reduction, SBI Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer Diwakar Gupta said, “The bank has taken decision to cut interest rates on term deposits as liquidity is comfortable.”
The decision to cut fixed deposit rates would help the bank improve margins, he said.
Arbaaz Khan Productions has reportedly got permission to film the Salman Khan-starrer action-comedy “Dabangg 2” in the state capital. Major scenes will be shot here and in Kanpur from next week.
According to sources in the state government, Arbaaz Khan Productions sought the green signal from the government to “commence shooting in the beautiful city”.
Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati Wednesday said both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party had “political motives” against reservations in job promotions for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and had so far prevented the passage of a legislation in this regard.
A constitution amendment bill to amend Article 16(4) of the Constitution to remove the term “inadequate representation” to enable reservations in promotions and appointments was tabled in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday.
(Siasat News)Sri Harsha Reddy, 35-year-old radiologist at Yashoda Hospital Malakpet went missing since Monday evening.
Harsha used to reside in an apartment behind Yashoda Hospital along with some colleagues.
When Harsha’s colleague called him he didn’t answered the call this create suspicious to his colleague and thus checked the hospital CCTV footage on Tuesday morning and saw Harsha leaving hospital at 5:30 p.m. on Monday.
Harsha is from Guntur and married to a girl Hema Prasanna a PG student at Manipal Medical College.
President Hu Jintao met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here Wednesday and appreciated her efforts to push forward ties between the two countries.
Hu recalled Clinton’s last seven visits to China as the US Secretary of State, including four visits for the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED) and another three for the High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchanges, reported Xinhua.
Hu commended Clinton’s efforts in promoting the construction of the US Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo and the program for US students to study in China.
Mr. Mohammed Abdur Rahim Quruishi, President, All India Majlis-e-Tameer-e-Millat, Hyderabad in a press note issued yesterday reviewed the judgment pronounced by Ms. Jyotsana Yagnik, Judge of the Special Court of Ahmedabad said that it is a historic judgment from various aspects. It is the Judgment, which is the first of its kind in the history of the judiciary of this country.
According to a press note issued by the Director of Admissions and the Head of the Department of Urdu, Telangana University, Nizamabad, spot admissions for M.A (Urdu) first year will be made at 10 a.m. on 7th September 2012 at the teaching block of the university campus.
According to a press note issued by Maulana Azad National Urdu University, it is offering coaching to candidates belonging to Minority communities for Civil Service (Preliminary and main) Examination to be held in 2013. The coaching will start on 8th October 2012.
Admission will be given to the candidates on the basis of an entrance test to be conducted on 23rd September 2012 at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Srinagar. The successful candidates of the entrance test will be interviewed on 23rd October in Hyderabad.
According to Dr. Mohammed Mushtaq Ali, a philanthropist has offered to arrange the marriages of two destitute Muslim girls on the occasion of his son’s valima function to be held on 15th September.
Such of the parents whose daughters’ marriages have been fixed and if they want to solemnize these marriages on the above date, may submit their applications along with the photo of the girls and a copy of Aadhar or ration card. The age of the girl should be above 18 years.
Maulana Azad National Urdu University is arranging a lecture today at 3 p.m. to mark Teachers’ Day.
Dr. Sunaina Singh, Vice Chancellor of English and Foreign Languages University will deliver this lecture on “Teacher and Society”. Prof. Mohammed Miyan, Vice Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University will preside over the function.
This lecture is arranged in the auditorium of Distance Education Department of Urdu University.
The programme will commence with the recitation and interpretation the Quranic verses.
Joint Action Committee of State Govt. Employees, Teachers and Pensioners has decided to launch agitation programmes in phases.
Their demands include appointment of pay revision commissioner, issuing health cards, regularization of contract employees, cancellation of G.O. 177 to prevent employees from strike and other important issues.
The first phase of agitation consists of dharna programmes in front of collectorates and Revenue Divisional offices to present memoranda to be sent to State Govt. The dharna programme will be organized on 25th September.
There is “no clear state policy in sight” on terrorism, said a leading Pakistani daily that called upon the media to form a narrative that is independent of the state’s and is based on factual reporting.
An editorial in the Dawn Wednesday said that the extent to which extremist groups have managed to proliferate in Pakistan and the impunity with which they operate pose challenges on many fronts.
The idea was to unite two uneasy neighbours through melody and music and what better platform than the reality show “Sur Kshetra” that brings together singing talents from India and Pakistan, says Pakistani composer-actor-singer Atif Aslam.
Going live Saturday, the Indian show has a heavy dose of Pakistani flavour. If Atif will be seen mentoring singers from Pakistan, Himesh Reshammiya will be seen with the Indian team. The judges are three South Asian singing legends – India’s Asha Bhosle, Pakistan’s Abida Parveen and Bangladesh’s Runa Laila.
People from the northeast are gradually returning to Hyderabad – after fleeing in droves last month following rumours of impending attacks on them. Their employers have come forward to not only take them back but also mostly treat their absence from work as paid leave.
While their flight in August had caught everyone’s attention, they are making a silent comeback, having realized the mistake in believing rumours spread through SMSes by mischief mongers.
(Siasat News)Court in Mapusa sentenced I Fernandes two years imprisonment for sending lewd and defamatory messages on the cell phone of his estranged wife.
Under the section 67 Fernandes found guilty and court also directed him to pay fine of Rs.10, 000 for sending obscene messages.
Wife when filled a complaint, court directed her husband no to interfere or communicate with her but he continued the same.
—-Siasat News
Three Lucknow university students were killed and three injured when their car turned turtle here late Tuesday, police said.
The accident took place after a tyre of the car burst and the driver lost control of the vehicle. Bumping into a divider, the car overturned.
Senior Superintendent of Police R.K. Chaturvedi told IANS that the Tata Safari SUV met with an accident in Krishnanagar near Murdhaiya village on Shaheed Path.
The injured were admitted to hospital and their condition is stated to be serious.
Italy would be ready to send military forces to Syria if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Italian Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola has said.
“Italy has the ability to do it,” Di Paola said in an interview to Rai state television.
“I think that the international community would have to contribute,” he said, stressing that he was not endorsing intervention.
Di Paola’s comments followed a meeting of Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi and other government officials to make plans for what they dubbed the “post Assad” period.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all outside parties, especially countries in the Middle East, “to do all they can” to help end the Syrian conflict, Xinhua reported.
Ban made the appeal in an address to the UN General Assembly, which met Tuesday to discuss the prolonged crisis that has plagued Syria since March 2011.
“The continuing militarization of the conflict is deeply tragic and highly dangerous. I appeal to all outside parties, especially the countries in the region, to do all they can to end this trend,” the UN chief was quoted as saying.
A list of 25 coal block allottees has been firmed up for presentation before the Inter- Ministerial Group later this week, raising questions over the deadline of September 15 being met for submitting the final report with regard to the fate of 58 blocks.
Hindalco, Tata Power, Monnet Ispat, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and Usha Martin are among the allottees which would be called by the IMG, a source said.
Sources said the 25 coal block allottees would make presentation during the three-day meeting of Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) from September 6.