Gali Nagaraja The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said the repeal of Article 370 continues to be its core ideology, adding that it would work on it whenever it achieves the two-third majority in the Parliament.
Son of Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain escaped unhurt in bomb attack in southwestern Balochistan late on Sunday, police said.
Five policemen in the escort team of Talat Mamnoon and six other people were injured in the bomb blast at the industrial town of Hub, Xinhua reported.
Hub is nearly 31 km from the port city of Karachi.
A police officer, Abdul Rashid said that bomb was attached to a motorbike that targeted the security personnel of the Talat Mamnoon.
No group claimed responsibility. The authorities blame such attack on insurgents.
–IANS
Amid showering of confetti, fireworks and team huddles, Mumbai Indians celebrated their IPL trophy triumph at the Eden Gardens after a thumping 41-run win over Chennai Super Kings in the final on Sunday.
The celebrations had virtually started even before the last ball was bowled in the game, as Chennai lost one wicket after another and the asking rate soared.
In reply to Mumbai’s daunting 202/5, Chennai could only score 161/8.
After the fall of every Chennai wicket, the Mumbai players would rush towards the middle, with high fives, as they embraced and congratulated each other.
With Chennai Super Kings yet again ending up as the runners up in the IPL at the Eden Gardens here, skipper M S Dhoni on Sunday lamented lack of individual match wining efforts and said the team could not reach hundred percent level of efficiency.
Dhoni also attributed the second over bowled by Mohit Shrama to be a key factor wherein CSK conceded the momentum to Mumbai Indians who won the match by 41 runs to lift their second IPL crown.
As per a new research, individuals with elevated depressive symptoms have difficulty perceiving all categories of speech, rather than displaying a selective bias towards sad speech.
University of Texas at Austin’s Zilong Xie said that a lot of research has suggested that these people with elevated depression symptoms have a bias towards negative perception of information in this kind of environment.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has asked his fans not to follow a fake account in his name on micro-blogging website Twitter.
A “fake” user by the account name of @SrBachchanc has been re-tweeting the 72-year-old’s posts to its 13,800 followers.
“CAUTION: @SrBachchanc…notice the ‘c’ added .. this is a FAKE account, not done by me… please refrain from communicating to it,” Big B tweeted via his official Twitter handle @SrBachchan on Sunday.
The controversial hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru had been carried out for “political reasons” by the UPA government which had informed him only hours before, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said today.
Out for a dinner with his sister at a Delhi restaurant, Omar received a call from the then Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde informing him that he had signed the papers for Guru to be hanged early next morning and asking him to make law and order arrangements.
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Deprecating Prime Minister Narendera Modi’s attacks abroad on previous governments, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today saw it as a part of “that whole thing of about me, myself and I alone”.
Abdullah, also a former Minister of State for External Affairs, said it was wrong for Modi to criticise the opposition during his foreign visits or say that people felt ashamed of being born Indian till he became Prime Minister.
Actress Anushka Sharma’s health has forced her to skip the promotion of the forthcoming Zoya Akhtar’s directorial “Dil Dhadakne Do” at the Indian Premier League (IPL) final here on Sunday.
“Anushka Sharma has taken ill suddenly after completing her film promotions on Saturday (in Mumbai) and has been advised by the doctor to rest completely for a day or two as she is exhausted and is showing signs of effects of heat, so that she can resume the promotional activities soon,” read a statement.
A white Cleveland police officer accused of firing through the windshield of a suspect’s car at the end of a 137-shot volley of gunfire that killed the two black occupants has been acquitted, touching off angry protests and compelling the Justice Department to order a review of the case.
After Officer Michael Brelo was cleared of voluntary manslaughter charges, the Justice Department said that they will now review the testimony and evidence presented in the state trial to find out if “additional steps are available and appropriate,” reported Fox News.
Seeking to check multiple entries in electoral rolls and to make them error-free, the Election Commission has embarked on an ambitious project to link Aadhar numbers with voters’ electoral data.
National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) was launched throughout the country from March 3 with the prime objective of bringing a totally error free and authenticated electoral roll.
The National Meteorological Center (NMC) has predicted that the deadly downpour that has wreaked havoc in south China, killing at least 35 people so far, will start to weaken today.
The NMC although removed the alert for rainstorms on Sunday morning but said that heavy rains will continue to lash some parts of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Taiwan , reported Xinhua.
Rainstorms that have been battering large parts of South China since May 4 have broken a 40-year rainfall record. (ANI)
Congress leader P.L. Punia on Sunday termed the Alirajpur incident, wherein few Dalits in the area alleged that they were not allowed to use a public borewell, as ‘unconstitutional’ adding that the Madhya Pradesh Government did not like people who supported the scheduled caste.
“This is wrong, unconstitutional and a crime. We will make sure that he people who are responsible for this are investigated. Madhya Pradesh Government does not like people that support the Dalits,” Punia told ANI.
“The Government is only with the ‘Dabangg’ people,” he added.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said that there was a lack of trust between the ministers and former prime minister Manmohan Singh during the UPA regime adding that the position of the latter was reduced to a ridicule.
“During the previous government there was mistrust between the Ministers and the Prime Minister. The Ministers did not have faith in the Prime Minister,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told the Media.
“The way the position of Prime Minister was reduced to ridicule was something the country saw first time during tenure of Dr.Manmohan Singh,” he added.
People with faster resting heart tare are at an increased risk of developing diabetes, warns a new study.
Each additional 10 beats per minute is associated with 23 percent increased risk of diabetes, similar to the effects of a three kilogram per metre square increase in body mass index (BMI), the findings showed.
“In this study, we measured resting heart rate among about 100,000 Chinese adults and followed them for four years,” said study senior author Xiang Gao, associate professor of nutritional sciences at Pennsylvania State University in the US.
Mother’s milk may protect their babies from the adverse effects of environmental pollution, suggests a new research.
The researchers assessed how exposure to environmental pollution during pregnancy affects health and examined the role of diet in physical and neuro-behavioural development in infancy.
They focused on motor and mental development during the first years of life caused by exposure to the hazardous pollution particle matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government of trying to cut down on the rights of the Delhi Government.
“BJP had said they would give full statehood to Delhi, but now they are busy cutting-down on the rights of Delhi Government. Today, Arun Jaitley ji is saying that it needs national consensus. I think the central government is implementing things on their own but this is the assembly of people and there is nothing powerful than that. We will discuss it in the assembly and see what comes out,” said Sisodia.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed the idea of a referendum on same-sex marriage in the country after Ireland voted in favour of amending the country’s constitution on the issue.
“Questions of marriage are the preserve of the Commonwealth Parliament,” reported ABC on Sunday citing the prime minister.
“Referendums are held in this country where there’s a proposal to change the constitution,” he said, adding: “I don’t think anyone is suggesting the constitution needs to be changed in this respect.”
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ashwini Upadhyay on Sunday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal -led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is busy doing dramas and fooling people rather than doing some concrete work, over the completion of 100 days of the AAP Government.
A 65-year-old German woman has given birth to quadruplets and already has 13 kids and seven grandchildren.
Annegret Raunigk, who gave birth to three boys and one girl through Caesarean procedure prematurely, went under an artificial insemination procedure initially for conceiving, the BBC reported.
The mother previously said that she decided to try for another baby because her youngest daughter, who was 9-year-old, wanted a little brother or sister.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Saturday said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government takes credit of things without actually doing anything.
“It is not right to comment on one year of governance and to come to any conclusion but this government has reduced the budget a lot. Price rise is on hike, the promise of black money has not been fulfilled; their only achievement is how to take credit while doing nothing,” said Singh.
Earlier on Friday, Jaitley said that decisiveness, even in the face of obstructionism, was a hallmark of the NDA Government.
The commander of international forces in Afghanistan says the Islamic State group is actively recruiting in Afghanistan but is not yet operational there.
General John F. Campbell said on Saturday the group’s sophisticated social media campaign is attracting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are disgruntled with the lack of progress in more than 10 years of fighting to overthrow the Kabul government.
He says many are pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, which controls about a third of Syria and Iraq.
A Pakistani court today accepted a plea by disgruntled PPP leader and former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, granting extension of his protective bail for a week in connection with cases filed under anti-terrorism laws.
The Sindh High Court asked authorities not to arrest Mirza, a former central executive committee member of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), during the period of his bail and ordered the provincial government to provide fool-proof security to the former minister.