Nikita Venkatesh It was a cloudy Thursday morning here with a minimum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius, the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast spells of rain in the day.
“The sky will remain cloudy with rainfall and thundershowers in some parts of the city,” said an India Meteorological Department official.
The day’s maximum temperature is likely to hover around 34 degrees Celsius.
Humidity at 8.30 am was 78 percent.
A new study has revealed that individuals who have lost either of their parents during childhood, have 50 percent greater risk of mortality risks in their adulthood than those unexposed to parental death.
The authors said that parental death in childhood was associated with a long-lasting increased mortality risk from both external causes and diseases, regardless of child’s age at bereavement, sex of the child, sex of the deceased parent, cause of parental death, as well as population characteristics like socioeconomic background.
The original copy of the very first Superman comic, Action Comics #1, will soon go under the hammer at eBay and it could easily acquire close to 3 million dollars.
The copy was published in June 1938 and was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, depicting the tale of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent who used his incredible powers to fight crime under the guise of Superman, CNet reported.
Social networking company Facebook’s profit has doubled reaching 791 million dollars while its total revenue rose from 1.8 billion dollars to 2.9 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2014.
Facebook’s more than a billion users reportedly use mobile devices to go online that amounts to 62 percent of the company’s overall advertising tallies in the second quarter.
Facebook’s sales from mobile devices are increasing at a rapid pace.
Almost 1.1 billion users accessed the site at least once using a mobile device.
A new study has found that the puberty age of girls largely depends on which of the two parents’ ‘imprinted’ genes they have.
Social media site Twitter was ablaze with reactions on the opening of the Commonwealth Games 2014, which finally kicked in Glasgow on Wednesday night.
The vibrant opening act, in which Glasgow-born Dr Who actor John Barrowman leaped from under a giant kilt to join Chewin’ The Fat comedian Karen Dunbar in singing ‘Welcome To Scotland’, saw tweets from users who were not shy in voicing their opinions on the event.
According to experts, the black boxes of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 will although provide vital clues about the incident but one must not expect any breakthrough evidence from the wreckage.
The Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), which are actually orange in color, will reveal only the extent of damage and the sound of impact, News.com.au reported.
Senior CPI leader Atul Anjan today asked the Speaker to take note of the incident where Shiv Sena MPs allegedly forced a Muslim man to break his fast in the Maharashtra sadan and present it before an ethics committee.
Anjan told ANI, “If Marathi ‘manoos’ is dishonoured by not getting proper food in Maharashtra sadan than I call it a narrow mindset. The speaker should take notice of it. In the parliament, the way BJP leaders Bidhuri and Owaisi behaved is disrespectful to Indian people.”
Actress Soha Ali Khan is over the moon after actor Kunal Kemmu, with whom she has been in a committed relationship for long, proposed to her.
Soha took to Twitter to share with her fans that Kunal proposed to her and she accepted.
“It gives me great happiness to share with you all that Kunal proposed to me in Paris with the most perfect ring in the world and I said yes,” tweeted the actress Wednesday.
Neha Dhupia – her friend from the film industry – also congratulated her soon after reading the post.
Chairman of Vibgyor High International School Rustom Kerawalla, who was arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a six-year-old student by the school’s two staff members over three weeks ago, has been granted bail.
Police arrested Kerawalla at Daman and Diu off Goa on Tuesday night and brought him to Bangalore on Wednesday for his culpability in the heinous crime. He was later let off on conditional bail.
A new study has revealed that the average adult eats 92 percent of whatever he or she puts on his/her plate.
According to the study by Cornell University, if an adult puts something on his/her plate , its going to end up in their stomach.
The researchers, who analyzed 1179 diners, said that we’re a Clean Plate Planet and the part of why people finish most of what they are served is because they are aware enough to know how much they’ll want in the first place.
According to senior party leader Fayaz Ahmad Bhat said, The BJP will contest all 87 Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir and is likely to make an announce of a Muslim face as the party’s chief ministerial candidate and He also said the BJP was gaining acceptability in Kashmir and many new faces had joined the party recently.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday paid floral tribute to freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak on his 158th birth anniversary.
“On Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s birth anniversary, we salute the great freedom fighter, who ignited the spark of patriotism with a call for ‘Swaraj’,” Modi wrote on his Twitter handle after paying tribute at parliament’s Central Hall.
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Spate of rainfall lashed several parts of Madhya Pradesh with the state recording an average of 103 cm rainfall in the last 24 hours, Met officials said.
According to an official release, Madhya Pradesh received an average rainfall of 103 cm yesterday across the state, with districts of Annupur, Balaghat, Seoni, Tikamghar receiving heavy downpour.
Entire Malwa region, including districts Barwani, Dhar, Indore, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Khandwa, Kharone, Neemuch, Ratlam and Ujjain, however, remained dry with scanty rains.
The controversy surrounding the autopsy of a woman gang raped and murdered near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh last week turned murkier on Wednesday with the opposition parties accusing the government and police of a whitewash job.
The 32-year-old woman was brutally gang raped and then killed in Mohanlalganj on the outskirts of state capital Lucknow last Thursday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered a probe into the lacunae in the autopsy report of the woman.
A bomb explosion in Assam’s Goalpara district claimed one life and injured three others on Wednesday.
The blast happened near the Krishnai Police Station at 8 a.m. this morning.
The dead person has been identified as Rehman. The three injured have been identified as Akhtar Hussain, Kashimuddin and Jehrul Islam respectively.
Further details are awaited.
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A pilot engine running ahead of the Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express was derailed after the railway track was blown up in Bihar during a shutdown by Maoists, authorities said on Wednesday.
Maoists blasted a railway track and a mobile tower in Bihar during their 24 hours shutdown to protest the killing of two people in police firing in Aurangabad district, police said on Wednesday.
At least five people were killed when Taliban militants attacked a vehicle in Afghanistan’s Laghman province, an official said on Tuesday.
“Armed militants fired on a running sedan along a road in Alinagar district late on Monday,” Xinhua quoted the official as saying.
An off-duty policeman was among the killed, the official said.
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should clarify whether he acted under pressure or not on the allegations of “improper compromises” made by three former chief justices of India when the UPA was in power.
“Former Prime Minister must come out and clarify whether he acted under pressure or not, this will enhance the image of judiciary,” Naidu told ANI.
“The issue that came out after the revelation of former chief justice is worrying
With speculations over fresh elections in Delhi, two Congress MLAs tonight met party president Sonia Gandhi and are understood to have requested her to bring back Sheila Dikshit to lead the party.
Sources said the two MLAs also conveyed to Gandhi about their views on how to strengthen the party in Delhi which suffered a humiliating defeat in both Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Congress had won a paltry eight seats in the 70-member Assembly election while it could not even win a single seat out of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi in the general elections.
A speeding car killed three and injured three others in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses told ANI that the car, a Hyundai I-20, was being driven by a 13-year-old boy at a speed of around 120 kilometers per hour when the accident happened.
“The speeding car went out of control of the driver and smashed the people sleeping on the roadside thereby killing three and severely injuring three others. The boy tried to run away with the car after the accident but was caught later,” said one eyewitness.
At least 13 militants were killed on Wednesday during air strikes carried out in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region.
According to military officials, six militant hideouts were destroyed in the airstrikes in the Shawal mountains and the area near Dattakhel, Dawn online reported.
So far, more than 400 militants, mostly foreigners, have been killed during the Zarb-i-Azb military operation.
The operation was launched by the army on June 15 following a brazen Taliban terror attack on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on June 8.
It was a cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 28.2 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast a cloudy day with light showers.
“The day will be cloudy and light rain is likely to occur in some parts of the capital,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 36 degrees Celsius.
Humidity at 8.30 a.m was 77 percent.
The Goa BJP government faced criticism from all sections after documents tabled in the state assembly here revealed Rs 13.24 crore were spent on tourism junkets in the state, since the party came to power in 2012.
The documents were tabled in the state legislative assembly Tuesday.
The government had earlier faced flak for sanctioning a Rs 89 lakh World Cup junket to Brazil.
The horse of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has failed a drug test, it has been revealed.
The Queen had cheered her horse Estimate on to success at the Gold Cup in 2013 but the five-year old is in the dock now as he tested positive for banned substance morphine.
According to CNN, the Queen had been present at Ascot racecourse last year to see her horse win one of the world’s most prestigious races. However, Estimate missed out narrowly on defending that crown last month, after which the drug is thought to have been consumed.