Gali Nagaraja Former Activist of Integrated A.P. and former M.P. Mr. Subham Hari told that there is a need to form a new political party since uncertainty prevails in A.P. State due to inactive position of TDP. No political party is in a position to contest TDP and YRCP in A.P. State. It is therefore necessary to form a new party which would be active and in a position to face TDP, YSRCP and Congress in A.P. State.
TDP leaders called on Mr. A.K. Khan, DGP of Anti-Corruption Bureau last night and informed him that Mr. Revanth Reddy is not being provided adequate facilities in jail. He is suffering from dehydration. He is not being given medicines. Mr. R. Chandrasekhara Reddy, former MP, TDP and Politburo members and Mr. L. Ramana, President of TDP, Telangana State submitted a detailed memorandum to Mr. A.K. Khan. Mr. Khan assured them that he would consider the matter sympathetically.
–Siasat News
Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia today met former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam and discussed plans to revamp the education system in the national capital.
Sisodia sought Kalam’s views on improving education in Delhi during the meeting, which was attended by Education Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava.
AAP Government has laid a special emphasis on improving education system ever since it came to power in Delhi.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan’s “PK” has set a new record grossing 100 million yuan (USD 16.70 million) in China, becoming the first Indian film to touch the three figure mark in the largely restrictive Chinese movie market.
“PK”, which is having a dream run in China since its Chinese version was released in on May 22, has hit the hundred million yuan mark today,” Prasad Shetty, partner in Chinese firm Strategic Alliance, which promotes Indian films in China, told PTI.
Key Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane today described Virat Kohli as an “aggressive” captain even as he praised former Test skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for instilling confidence to the cricket team.
“Virat’s captaincy is really aggressive on the field whether it is Bangladesh or Australia. He gives confidence to all of us,” Rahane said ahead of Indian team’s departure for the tour of Bangladesh which begins with a one-off Test starting on June 10.
Kohli took over the leadership of the Test team after Dhoni’s retirement from the longest format last year.
RJD President Lalu Prasad is likely to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi tomorrow to discuss the issue of alliance for Bihar polls, a day after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar held consultations in this regard with Rahul Gandhi.
Sources said that the meeting is likely to be held in the first half tomorrow.
Congress Vice-President Rahul is learnt to have favoured a broader secular alliance for the state and he has also told Kumar about the party view in this matter.
Expelled Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Pappu Yadav on Sunday alleged that his former boss Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar are the number one enemy of the Dalits and said that the Janata Parivar merger would hold no meaning for the people of the state.
“Nobody can be a greater enemy of the Muslims than Lalu and Nitish.
They are the number one enemy of the Dalits,” Yadav told ANI here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday compared the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh with the collapse of Berlin Wall.
“Some writer had written it, I couldn’t read it entirely but I saw the headline, he has compared the land boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh with collapse of Berlin wall. I think it is his big thought,” PM Modi said while addressing a gathering at Dhaka University.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday arrived in New Delhi after concluding his two-day visit in Bangladesh.
She was received by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the airport.
The Prime Minister departed from Dhaka in Bangladesh after addressing a gathering at the cultural programme at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center.
He also met leaders across the Bangladeshi political spectrum.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was today conferred Award of Bangladesh Liberation War Honour for his “active role” in the country’s independence struggle and consolidating India’s friendship with the nation.
Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid handed over the award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a glittering ceremony at Bangabhaban, the President’s house, which was attended by Premier Sheikh Hasina and top officials of her government.
Researchers have discovered that a rabbit virus can kill some kinds of cancer cells and eliminate a common unwanted side effects of bone marrow transplants.
For patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, a bone marrow transplant can be both curative and perilous.
It replenishes marrow lost to disease or chemotherapy but raises the risk that newly transplanted white blood cells will attack the recipient’s body.
Drinking sugar-sweetened beverage daily may increase the risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), says a study.
NAFLD is characterised by an accumulation of fat in the liver cells that is unrelated to alcohol consumption.
“Our study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that sugar-sweetened beverages may be linked to NAFLD and other chronic diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” said first author Jiantao Ma from Tufts University in the US.
Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on Sunday conferred the Bangladesh Liberation War award for his contribution to the South Asian nation’s fight for liberation from Pakistan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Bangladesh, received the award on behalf of Vajpayee from President Mohammad Abdul Hamid at a function in Dhaka.
“An inspiration for so many people like me, Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee is being honoured by Bangladesh,” Modi said in a speech on the occasion.
All excited about shaping the next generation of cricketers, newly-appointed India A and under-19 coach Rahul Dravid said he has landed the job he was always interested in and would now look to give his best to it.
“I think it is really exciting because it has been an area I have always been interested in. I feel it is a very important stage of development of a lot of cricketers, having been through myself,” Dravid told ‘ESPNcricinfo’.
The Election Commission will dispatch four special teams of ‘auditors’ to poll-bound Bihar for weeding out duplicate entries from electoral rolls.
According to official sources, the four teams, comprising six officers each, are part of the Commission’s newly-set up Regulatory Audit Division and Bihar will be their first assignment.
The Audit Division has been mandated to detect specific instances of non-adherence to the Commission’s guidelines or legal provisions required to be followed by the field election machinery. Maintenance of the quality of electoral rolls is its other task.
Olympic bronze-medallist boxer M C Mary Kom today offered her condolences to the families of the 18 Indian Army soldiers, who lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Manipur.
“My heartfelt condolence to the bereaved families of those brave jawaans who lost their lives during the ambush at Manipur. Let their sacrifices bring forth peace in this land.
Let’s stop killing each other,” Mary Kom, a five-time world champion hailing from Manipur, said in a message posted on her facebook page.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today met Rahul Gandhi at his residence here as the talks on alliance to take on BJP in Bihar polls gained momentum.
Kumar had reached Delhi yesterday. RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who arrived here today, said he will be meeting leaders on the alliance issue.
JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav, who had on Thursday asserted that RJD, JD-U and Congress will fight the Bihar Assembly polls together, is already back in the national capital having rounds of negotiations with leaders of other parties in Bihar.
Thirty-one years after he was killed in ‘Operation Blue Star’ in Amritsar, Punjab, separatist militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale is still regarded as a martyr and ‘sant’ by Sikhs living in Jammu.
Sant Tejwant Singh, the chief Sikh priest at Dana Singh Gurdwara Sahib in the Sikh-dominated Nanak Nagar area of Jammu city, strongly believes Bhindranwale was a sant (saint) and martyr of the Khalsa Pant.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as an inspiration for many people.
“An inspiration for so many people like me, Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee is being honoured by Bangladesh,” Modi said in a speech ahead of accepting the Bangladesh Liberation War award on behalf of the former prime minuster.
Bangladesh is conferring the award on Vajpayee for his contribution to the South Asian nation’s fight for liberation from Pakistan.
A senior U.S. official has reportedly dismissed the latest criticism of the country’s air campaign against the Islamic State (IS), saying that the raids have killed militants without killing large number of civilians.
Claiming that the air offensive was killing more than 1,000 militants a month while avoiding civilian casualties, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General John W. Hesterman III said that the idea that the country was only observing large number of IS members and not killing them was fiction, reported Fox News.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday denied it had any role in the crude bomb explosion that killed two party activists and seriously injured two others on Saturday.
The party has also denied it was behind the manufacture of crude bombs.
K. Shyju, 39, and Sudheesh, 28, were killed in the explosion at Chettakkandy near Kannur on Saturday. It was believed that the explosion took place while “making bombs”.
Pakistan batsman Sharjeel Khan has said that he would have loved to play the recent series against Zimbabwe in Lahore, stating that cricket has remained very popular in the Islamic Republic despite the paucity of matches.
Khan, who has represented Pakistan in 11 ODIs and 3 T20Is, said that he would have loved to have been part of the series, Pak Passion reported. He further said that the wickets were so flat in the series that he was ruing the fact that he was not opening the batting for Pakistan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhawan in Dhaka on Sunday.
Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Vikas Swarup took to twitter to share the information.
“A warmth that brings two neighbours together. PM @narendramodi and President Abdul Hamid confer at Bangabhawan,” he posted.
Sleep helps memory consolidation even in individuals who sustain mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion, new research has found.
After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years.
“It is interesting to note that despite having atypical or disturbed sleep architecture, people in our study had intact sleep-dependent memory consolidation,” said lead researcher Rebecca Spencer from University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US.
On the second day of his Bangladesh visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule, including a visit to the Dhakeshwari temple and a meeting with President Abdul Hamid.
Modi would be visiting the Dhakeshwari and Ramakrishna Mission in the capital and inaugurate the newly-constructed Indian High Commission’s Chancery at Baridhara on Sunday.
The prime minister will then call on President Hamid at the Bangabhaban.
On behalf of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he will receive Bangladesh Liberation War Honour from Hamid.