Nikita Venkatesh Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan on Thursday alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government’s move to spend Rs. 520 crores on FM radio advertisements was in complete violation of the Supreme Court’s orders.
Bhushan said that the apex court would soon take note of this matter.
Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Thursday said that people are making a ‘mountain out of a molehill’ over the delay of the Air India flight by Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju.
“Our flight got preponed following which we rushed there but the pilot behaved rudely with us and instigated passengers. A mountain of a molehill is being made out of this. I had a confirmed ticket; it isn’t a bus that they’ll shut the door. It needs to be enquired as to why they changed the time,” said Singh.
Inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1997, Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will donate his entire USD 32 billion fortune to charity.
The 60-year-old prince, who is one of the world’s richest persons, said that the money would be used to foster ‘cultural understanding’ and ‘provide vital disaster relief,’ among other things, reported the BBC.
Gates reacted to the statement, saying it was an inspiration to philanthropists around the globe.
Forbes has placed Prince Alwaleed on the 34th spot on the list of the world’s richest people.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian on Thursday said that the introduction of the PAHAL scheme has reduced subsidised domestic sales of LPG across the country by close to 25 percent.
“On average, the direct benefit transfer for LPG has reduced subsidised domestic sales by about 25 percent. LPG has gone through three phases – originally it was called DBT, then it was suspended and now it has been reintroduced by the present government under PAHAL,” Subramanian said, while speaking at the UNDP Conference Hall in the national capital.
Look what’s trending! Interestingly Indians have come up with something unique despite of their mid-week office tensions and are trending hashtag #ThingsThatUniteIndians on social networking site Twitter.
With this hashtag, Indians are pointing out things that bring the nation together such as free samples at shopping mall, 50 per cent off sale and India vs Pakistan cricket match.
While many took this in a fun way, a user gave the topic a serious thought and tweeted, “Religious bigotry, misogyny, treating cricket as war and casteism are the #ThingsThatUniteIndians.”
Diabetic and want to lose weight? Now you can do both with help of a single medicine, as a new study has shown that Liraglutide, an injectable diabetes drug, helps people shed kilos.
US regulators had approved the drug last year for weight loss, and a randomised, controlled trial at 191 sites in 27 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia, found that it helped obese people lose an average of eight kilograms.
The drug is marketed as Saxenda by Novo Nordisk, GMA Network reported.
To improve the safety of long tubular structures which are used in aircrafts and hospital equipments to reduce weight, researchers are taking ideas from insect legs.
Trinity College Dublin scientists looked at how different leg shapes of locusts, cockroaches, stick insects and bees bend and buckle when stress is applied to them.
Professor David Taylor said that thin-walled tubes were prone to failure by buckling and it was also difficult to predict the loading conditions which caused buckling, especially for tubes of non-standard cross section.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss team-mate Martina Hingis advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon Championships after defeating the duo of Saisai Zheng and Zarina Diyas in the opening round yesterday.
The top seeded India-Swiss pair defeated the Chinese-Kazakh team in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
In the men’s doubles, Leander Paes and Canada’s Daniel Nestor progressed to the second round, while Purav Raja and his French team-mate Fabrice Martin crashed out, the BBC reported.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced that the Cabinet has approved funds amounting to Rs 50,000 crore over the five years to ensure that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a success.
Hyderabad’s Freshwater Biology Regional Centre (FBRC) will on Thursday celebrate 100 years of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). The organisation, which completed 100 years on Wednesday, will unveil sculptures and hold discussions with the aim of generating awareness on conservation.
is organising a ‘Centenary Run’ here on Thursday to mark the centenary year celebrations of the ZSI.
The ‘Centenary Run’ will start from the Outer Ring Road at Rajendranagar to FBRC at Attapur, FBRC Deputy Director D V Rao said in a release today.
One more person was today arrested in connection with the alleged gangrape of a Dalit teenager and DNA samples of all the three accused have been sent for forensic examination, police said.
“While Ankit and Rishab were arrested on June 28, the main accused Shivam has been arrested today,” Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar Yadav said.
The DNA samples of all the three accused have been sent for forensic examination and another medical examination of the girl was also conducted to ascertain the fact of the case on directives of DIG, Bareilly range, RKS Rathore.
The Rajasthan government has transferred about 40 Urdu teachers to the post of Sanskrit teachers in its schools, drawing sharp criticism.
The Department of Secondary Education, however, has admitted that transfers were made by mistake and said it would be rectified soon.
Eleven second grade Urdu teachers in Bundi, 25 in Jhalawar and six in Baran have been transferred to other secondary and senior secondary government schools to the post of Sanskrit teachers, according to the transfer list released on the website of Directorate of Secondary Education on June 29.
President Pranab Mukherjee offered prayers at the ancient hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here today.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Governor E S L Narasimhan were with the President during his visit.
Mukherjee arrived here from Hyderabad on an eight-hour spiritual sojourn today. Before proceeding to the sacred hills, he paid obeisance to Goddess Padmavathi at nearby Tiruchanur and Lord Shiva, called Kapileswaraswamy at the ancient cave temple close to the foot of the hills, temple sources told PTI.
Former IPL chief Lalit Modi’s claims that Varun Gandhi had offered him to “settle” all matters. Levelling fresh allegations, Lalit Modi today sought to drag BJP leader Varun Gandhi in the escalating row.
On charges made by Modi against the party leaders, Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said the former IPL chief was trying to divert attention from the Congress demand of resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in this connection.
Scientists on Thursday revealed that the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago gave rise to modern ‘age of fish’. And, so far 188 meteorite impact sites on Earth have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery.
Researchers determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates – ray-finned fish – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.
US Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has sparked controversy over her Emails. According to a new report, Senior Obama administration officials, including the White House chief of staff, knew that she was using a private email address.
Hillary Clinton was advised to quietly take action against Pakistani military leaders who gave support to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, an email sent to her when she was Secretary of State shows.
India’s mining giant Adani Group’s 16.5 billion dollar coal mine project in Australia’s Queensland has run into another controversy after reports that senior bureaucrats were sidelined over key decisions on the deal for the venture which was red-flagged by many officials.
Documents obtained by the ABC News under the Right to Information laws showed that the Queensland Treasury and the Department of Premier and Cabinet were frozen out of key government decisions about the controversial Carmichael mine project.
Three Taliban militants have been given an eight-time death sentence by a Pakistani court for attacking trucks carrying critical supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan in 2010, officials said today.
Afraz-ur-Rehman, Ali Imran and Wajih-ur-Rehman, belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group, were found guilty by a Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court yesterday.
A lawyer confirmed that the three were given eight-time death sentence by the court.
The head of Al-Qaida’s Pakistan wing has been killed in a raid by counter-terrorism commandos earlier this week near Lahore, foiling their plot to attack the offices of a spy agency, Punjab Home Minister said today.
The deceased Al-Qaida head has been identified as Abdali who hails from Muridke, Punjab Home Minister Colonel ® Shuja Khanzada told a press conference here.
“One of the four terrorists killed on Monday during a raid of law enforcement agencies near Lahore was the head of Al-Qaeda networks in Pakistan and in Punjab province,” Khanzada said.
A Syrian rebel group operating around Damascus has executed 18 alleged members of the Islamic State group in a video mimicking the extremist organisation’s own productions.
The video, which emerged overnight, shows fighters from Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam) wearing the orange prison clothes that IS victims often sport.
The IS prisoners however are wearing black clothes and chained together wearing ankle and hand shackles with metal balls attached.
The nearly 20-minute production mimics many aspects of IS’s own execution videos, with similar sound effects and visuals.
A Kochi-based IT startup has launched Ringr, a smartphone application that promises to revolutionise current Voice over Internet (VoIP) communications by its innovative data transfer technologies which can give clear audio quality even at low bandwidths.
The app is available for download for Android users and will be launched for iOS soon, according to a release here by startup Quiq Infotech.
Keeping in mind the bandwidth constraints in India, where promised speeds are seldom available, Ringr focuses on giving high quality audio at lesser bandwidth costs, it said.
Scientists have developed a new ultrasonic 3D fingerprint scanner that could be used in smartphones and other devices to improve security.
The sensor measures 3D image of your finger’s surface and the tissue beneath it – enhancing biometrics and information security for smartphones and other devices.
Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones produces a two-dimensional image of a finger’s surface, which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the fingerprint.
Mahindra Group, one of India’s largest utility vehicle manufacturer, has called on the government to allocate budgets for setting up infrastructure required to boost eco-friendly electric car usage in India.
“As far as the government is concerned, what we are happy about is that they are trying to push for electric vehicles to be used. It’s on the infrastructure side where we would like to see more effort coming in and the government to sponsor such initiatives,” said Pawan Goenka, Mahindra & Mahindra Group president (auto & farm sector).
The benchmark Sensex jumped over 90 points in early trade today, extending yesterday’s gains, on the back of increased buying by participants as the country’s infrastructure growth hit a 6-month high in May.
Besides, a firming trend overseas kept the momentum going.
The 30-share index, which had gained over 135 points in the previous session, rose 90.47 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 27.871.30, with all sectoral indices led by consumer durables, healthcare and realty trading in the positive zone with gains up to 1.08 per cent.
Reclaiming the 28,000-mark after 10 weeks today, the benchmark BSE Sensex surged by 240 points on across-the-board buying after the government promised capital support to PSU banks amid positive macroeconomic data.
Besides, a firming trend in global markets, after Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was reportedly prepared to accept creditors’ demands for a bailout buoyed trading sentiments here, equity brokers said.