Gali Nagaraja A 24-year-old US man was sentenced to 82 months in prison for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
According to an official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statement, Michael Todd Wolfe aka Faruq, of Austin, Texas, was sentenced on Friday by US District Court Judge Sam Sparks to serve 82 months in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organisation.
Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, will be christened on July 5.
A Kensington Palace statement quoted by the BBC, said the christening will take place at St Mary Magdalene Church at the Queen’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
The princess was born on May 2 at St Mary’s Hospital in London, weighing 8lb 3oz (3.7kg).
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will conduct the baptism, and described it as an extraordinary honour and privilege to help welcome the princess into the family of the church.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has promised to provide double bed-room flats to all poor persons in the next two years. He also announced that Hyderabad will be made a slum-free city soon.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao called on Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan here on Friday.
The Telangana Government on Friday released Rs 16.38 crore to mitigate drinking water problems in 67 Urban Local Bodies of the State during the summer.
The amount has been released from State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to the Chief Engineer, Public Health.
China on Saturday called on parties concerned to press ahead with political settlement of the Ukraine crisis in order to achieve peace and tranquillity in Ukraine at an early date, media reported.
Liu Jieyi, China’s permanent representative to the UN, made the call at a Security Council meeting on Ukraine, saying China believes that dialogue and consultation is the only solution to the Ukraine issue, Xinhua news agency reported.
Former Intelligence Bureau director Syed Asif Ibrahim was on Friday appointed as “special envoy for counter-terrorism and extremism”, an official statement said.
He will be in the National Security Council secretariat, in the rank of secretary to the government of India for a period of three years or until further orders, an official statement said.
According to government officials, Ibrahim’s role will be to help the government in evolving strategies to deal with radicalisation of youth specially with growing influence of terror groups like the Islamic State.
With the land swap agreement as the centerpiece, Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves on Saturday on a two-day “historic” visit to Bangladesh where he will hold talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina and ink several agreements, especially in the field of connectivity and trade.
Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar told the media ahead of Modi’s 36-hour visit that the Land Boundary Agreement, which was approved by the Indian parliament last month, would help to consolidate and deepen bilateral ties.
Kashmiri Separatist Leader Syed Ali Geelani visited Regional Passport Office on Friday to complete the biometric formalities for an Indian passport. He told the reporters that he is not an Indian by birth but by compulsion.
Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today alleged threat to his life after a liquor bottle was found under a plant at his heavily guarded residence here.
Some media persons, who had assembled at his residence to meet Hindustani Awam Morcha leaders, noticed a liquor bottle under a plant in the open.
Manjhi, who continues to live at 1, Anne Marg – the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister even after his replacement, said it was a huge security failure.
Pakistan government today hiked its defence spending from Rs 700 billion to Rs 780 billion, an 11 per cent increase from the previous fiscal, to meet the military and security needs as it battles Taliban insurgency in northwest.
The increase in the defence budget was made as part of the annual budget.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented budget for the fiscal year 2015-16 (FY2015-16), showing a total outlay of Rs 4.313 trillion, which is 9.1 per cent higher than Rs 3.9 trillion of the outgoing fiscal ending on June 30.
Kashmir’s ‘half-widows” — whose husbands have disappeared — are exposed to various gender and economic vulnerabilities, a report launched here on Friday said.
The report, “Vulnerabilities of half-widows of Jammu and Kashmir and the role of Judiciary, Civil Society and Community”, has been compiled by members of an NGO, Aman Trust.
The report presented the multiple dimensions of gender and economic vulnerabilities faced by the women whose husbands have disappeared without it being clear if they were alive or dead.
Failing to translate a good start into a productive end, India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu went down to the local challenger and second seed Campbell Grayson in four games in the quarter-final of the NZ International Classic 2015 squash tournament here on Friday.
The sixth seeded Sandhu led 9-7 in the first game, but Grayson caught up to square scores. The Indian, under pressure, hit two shots into the tin to give away the game.
The slide began there before he briefly had the attention on him by plucking the third game with a smart change of strategy and finding the drops well.
Eight of the 10 militants reportedly jailed for their role in the 2012 attack on Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai have been freed, a Pakistani daily reported on Friday citing police.
“An anti-terrorism court had sentenced two attackers, Isarur Rehman and Izharullah, to life imprisonment, the rest of the eight alleged attackers Shaukat, Irfan, Suleman, Bilal, Zafar Ali, Arafat, Ikran and Adnan were set free,” The Express Tribune quoted regional police officer of Maland division Azad Khan as saying.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, while launching KV Shaala Darpan programme of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan here today, said the programme will write a new definition of e-governance, good governance, and digital India.
Elaborating upon the details, Irani said this programme will be a step forward in the direction of fulfilling the vision of digital India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who arrived here on Friday for a two-day official visit, hailed the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) as ‘historic’.
“Land boundary agreement will be historic,” she told ANI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to leave for Bangladesh on Saturday morning.
He will attend several programmes in the neighbouring country, which include meeting his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday described Narendra Modi as “not a good prime minister”, and said he cannot be compared with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Kejriwal told NDTV in an interview that Modi was using Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to create obstacles for his Aam Aadmi Party government to avenge the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rout in the February elections in Delhi.
“He (Modi) is taking revenge against the people and the Aam Aadmi Party because of the loss (in Delhi)… He cannot be a good prime minister,” Kejriwal said.
Supporters of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday waved Pakistani flags outside his residence in Jammu and Kashmir’s Hyderpora.
The incident comes after Geelani refused to owe allegiance to India even as he applied for a passport here.
“By birth I am not Indian,” Geelani said as he exited from the Passport Seva Kendra in Srinagar.
Geelani has applied for an Indian passport to go to Saudi Arabia and visit his ailing daughter.
Admitting that it was on a “weak wicket” in West Bengal, the Congress state unit is hoping for rejuvenation when party vice president Rahul Gandhi visits the state on Saturday.
During the visit, Gandhi will address jute mill workers at the Wellington jute mill ground at Rishra in Hooghly district. He will then head to the Kolkata Port Trust guest house and meet home buyers.
Later in the day, he will address party workers at the Netaji Indoor Stadium.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Haryana Police to provide protection to a newly-married couple who are facing threats to separate by the girl’s parents and their khap for marrying outside the caste.
The vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice Amitava Roy directed the Haryana Police to provide security to Ashish, who works in AIIMS here and his wife Bharti, after the court was told that the couple was apprehending harm to their lives and unknown people were trying to reach them at the instance of girl’s parents and immediate relatives.
Large flexi banners were erected in Kareem Nagar District in connection with Telangana Formation Day. Mushaira program was announced on 3rd June night. On the stage various cultural programs were presented. At last, at 11 p.m. Mushaira was started. Before the inauguration of Mushaira, Finance Minister, Mr. E. Rajender told that KCR is the first Urdu knowing CM and he is taking interest in the promotion of Urdu. Mr. Rajender perhaps does not know that the first CM of Hyderabad State, Mr. B. Rama Krishna Rao and later Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, Dr. M. Channa Reddy, Mr. T.
Delhi Metro has received its first driver-less train from Korea equipped with several advanced features and is expected to be operational by the year end of next year.
According to reports, these new trains have undergone significant technological and eco-friendly upgrades. To increase the comfort of passengers, many features have been added.
The trains will be more energy efficient than the earlier trains because of improved design features such as better regeneration of energy during braking, energy efficient sub systems like LED lighting and air conditioning systems.
Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte arrived here last night on a two-day visit to India.
During his visit, Rutte will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will hold delegation level talks today.
It will be followed by a round table of the Dutch and Indian delegations with representatives of large companies from both the countries.
On the second day of his visit, Rutte will lay wreath at Mumbai’s Hotel Taj Mahal Palace for remembrance of 26/11 attacks.
Prior to holding business meeting, the visiting Prime Minister will also visit Bombay House for a meeting with CEOs.
President Pranab Mukherjee has returned to New Delhi after his two-nation tour to Sweden and Belarus.
President Mukherjee’s aircraft reached New Delhi on Thursday evening.
President Pranab Mukherjee has said that his visit reflected the renewed emphasis that New Delhi places on enhancing partnership with Sweden and Belarus and added that both countries have been supportive of India’s claim for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
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