Nikita Venkatesh

A new cell study has mapped one of the most important proteins in cell division that has a fundamental process in life and the development of cancer, which might also help fight against it.

Actress Shraddha Kapoor feels lucky to be a part of filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj`s upcoming project `Haider` at such an early stage of her career.

`Haider`, an adaptation of `Hamlet` and completes Bhardwaj`s trilogy of William Shakespeare`s tragedies after `Macbeth` and `Othello`, has a stellar star cast of Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan besides the actress.

“I still can`t believe that I am a part of Vishal sir`s `Haider`. It`s such a surreal experience for me. I am lucky that he has given me this opportunity at such an early stage of my career.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson M.J. Akbar on Monday expressed shock over former Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice (retired) Maarkandey Katju’s statement on corruption in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Manmohan Singh.

Alia Bhatt, who has confirmed she has signed Vikas Bahl`s `Shaandar` for a role with Shahid Kapoor, says she`s a fan of the actor, whom she first fell in love with when she was all of 11.

“I`m a huge Shahid Kapoor fan. I must have been 11 years old when I went to see Shahid in `Ishq Vishk` at Gaiety-Galaxy (in Mumbai). I`ve been a fan since then. He is a fabulous actor and from what I hear, a very supportive co-star,” Alia said.

Shahid is a generation removed from most of the co-stars Alia has worked with so far.

A special CBI court here Monday posted the case of alleged quid pro quo investments involving the firms of YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, to August 11.

Jagan, who represents Pulivendula Assembly seat in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, and other accused including former ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy, Dharmana Prasada Rao and Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao, also appeared before the Principal Special Court for CBI cases here in connection with different aspects of the case.

A 55-year-old man was killed and his 29-year-old relative was seriously injured after the roof of a house collapsed in Delhi, police said Monday.

The accident was reported around 10 p.m. Sunday from Paschim Vihar area in west Delhi, police said.

Pradeep Kumar died when the roof caved in and his relative Vipin is battling for his life in a private hospital.

“It was an old two-storey building. The incident occurred after the second-floor roof suddenly collapsed, leaving the victims trapped under the debris. They were later rushed to a nearby hospital,” said a police official.

A woman was allegedly gang-raped in front of her husband by two youths at Ropaiabawk locality here, police said Monday.

The incident took place yesterday when Zarzoliana (19) and P C Lalhruaitluanga (20), both residents of Chawlhhmun, overpowered the woman’s husband and tied him with a tree before raping the woman, they said.

Both the accused were arrested from Aizawl, police said.

A suspended police inspector, wanted in connection with the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam, has been arrested by the Special Task Force.

Inspector Ajay Singh Pawar was arrested on Saturday at around midnight from the Indrapuri locality of the city, an STF official said here Monday.

Following a tip-off, an STF team raided the area and caught the suspended police officer who had a reward of Rs 10,000 on him.

He was wanted by STF since November last year when a case was registered against him in connection with the scam.

There’s bad news for bomb-sniffing dogs, researchers have found a way to increase the sensitivity of a light-based sensor to detect incredibly minute amounts of explosives.

The tiny laser sensor can even sniff out a hard-to-detect explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a favourite among terrorists.

Small amounts of PETN pack a powerful punch and being a plastic, it escapes x-ray machines when not connected to detonators.

PETN was found in Richard Reid’s shoe bomb in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab’s underwear bomb in 2009.

At least two people were killed and nine injured Monday in a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

According to officials, the blast occurred in Zanzer Mina locality of Helmand’s capital Lashkar Gah, Xinhua reported.

The target of the attack was a police convoy passing by the area, officials said.

The dead were a policeman and a civilian while four policemen and five civilians were injured in the explosion, the officials added.

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Blaming degradation of social values for rising rape and molestation cases in the country, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said the problem can be overcome through social pressure and compulsions.

“The degradation of social values and disintegration has encouraged such incidents and the values of our social heritage can help overcome them,” Bharti said while releasing two books at Bundelkhand University here last night.

The longest-ever search operation to recover bodies of 24 B.Tech students, who drowned in River Beas in Mandi district on June 8, came to a close with recovery of bodies of two girl students.

With this, the bodies of all 24 students have been recovered and only a co-tour guide Pralahad is missing.

The bodies of Dasari Srinidhi and Kasarla Rishita Reddy were seen floating in the Pandoh Dam reservoir yesterday and taken out by a search team, police said.

Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane resigned from the state cabinet on Monday.

He submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Rane, a chief ministerial aspirant, has been reportedly upset with the party for not giving him the top post.

He had announced last week that he will resign from his ministerial post, but will continue to be a member of the Congress Party.

“I shall resign as cabinet minister on Monday. However, I shall continue to remain in the Congress as an ordinary worker,” Rane had told media on Thursday.

LG Electronics on Monday launched its new flagship smartphone LG G3.
The phone is priced at Rs 47,990 for 16GB and Rs 50,990 for 32GB and would be available in three colours.

“With G3, LG has truly broken technological grounds and we aim to spearhead our vision of 10 per cent smartphone market share by end of 2014 for LG’s mobile division in India,” LG Electronics India Managing Director Soon Kwon said.

The phone is to be endorsed by Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, the company said.

Louise Gold, a Berlin-based singer/songwriter, recorded John Lennon’s song ‘Oh My Love’ cover and added sounds of ‘ Neil Armstrong’s heartbeat and planet Venus’ to honor the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

Gold started this when he heard a radio program about the moon landing that mentioned how Armstrong’s heartbeat spiked to 160 bpm before he left Apollo 11 and then slowed again when he walked on the lunar surface, CNet reported.

The proceedings in the Goa Assembly, which begins its Monsoon Aession July 22, will be virtually paperless, Speaker Rajendra Arlekar said Monday.

The session, which is expected to see over 2,500 questions, will be 95 percent paperless, according to the Speaker.

Both ruling and opposition benches are preparing to battle over issues related to the multi-billion dollar mining scam, use of police to settle political scores, the Lusofonia Games scam and other issues.

The middle-aged woman, who was stripped and assaulted in public for allegedly kidnapping two men, went missing Monday from a Patna hospital where she undergoing treatment, officials said.

Sangita Devi, in her 40s, was stripped and assaulted Wednesday night for allegedly kidnapping two men who were involved in a land deal with her in Nizamuddinpur village, 50 km from Patna, in Jehanabad district.

The bodies of the two men were found Thursday near Sigouri in Patna, police said.

Most of the Odisha rivers were flowing close to the danger level Monday due to heavy rainfall across the state, an official said.

The water level was on the rise in major rivers, including Mahanadi, Devi, Kushabhadra, Vamsadhara and Brahmani, according to officials.

The Vamsadhara river was flowing near the danger level at two places, an official told IANS.

At Kashinagar in Gajapati district, the water was flowing at 53.58 metres against a danger level of 53.60 metres at 6 am Monday, he said.

A new study has revealed how starvation induces specific changes in so-called small RNAs and that these changes are inherited through at least three consecutive generations, apparently without any DNA involvement.

The researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), who looked at starved roundworms for six days and then examined their cells for molecular changes, found that the starved roundworms generated a specific set of small RNAs.

River Ramganga in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad District is presently flowing above the danger mark and flood alert has also been issued by the district administration.

Gupta Eye Institute in charge Mrs.Khurana told ANI, “The water has gathered in front of one gate of the hospital. If it rises five to six inches more, then we will have to shut down our services. As of now, just one gate is functional out of the two.”

One person dies every six hours due to oral cancer in the country, signalling an alarming rise in the incidence of the disease, according to a top orthodontist.

The situation could be still graver as many cases of the disease went unreported, Secretary-General of the Indian Dental Association Dr Ashok Dhoble told PTI from Mumbai.

“Cases of the disease and deaths resulting from it in rural areas and among the poorer sections of society are hardly registered,” he noted.

Researchers are developing new display sensors for smartphones that will read the user’s spit to not only detect the body temperature, but also analyze the DNA.

Researchers from Polytechnique Montreal and Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning, who are currently working together, claimed that the sensors would be embedded within the smartphone’s display, allowing the users to take their temperature, assess blood levels (if diabetic) and work alongside platforms such as Apple’s HomeKit to give provide more information about their health, Mashable reported.

A new study has revealed that the size and age of plants has more impact on their productivity instead of climate that has a relatively minor direct effect on net primary productivity.

University of Arizona professor Brian Enquist said that a fundamental assumption of their models for understanding how climate influenced the functioning of ecosystems was that temperature and precipitation directly influenced how fast plants could take up and use carbon dioxide.

Four persons were killed and two others injured in a collision between a mini truck and a car here, police said Monday.

The accident took place on the Basti-Siddhartnagar road last night when both the vehicles rushed to cross a narrow culvert, they said.

The deceased have been identified as car driver Hriday Ram (32), Abdul Kalim (32), Javed Ahmed (35) and Jamal Ahmed (30).

The injured have been admitted to the district hospital.

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Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest in front of Vibgyor School in Bangalore over the recent rape of a six-year-old girl inside her school premises.

The protest turned volatile after the protesters broke police barricades leading to a scuffle with the police.

Reportedly, one of the skating instructors has been arrested in Bangalore for the recent rape of a six-year-old girl inside her school premises.

On July 2, two gym instructors had allegedly raped the minor girl inside the premises of Bangalore’s Vibgyor School when she had gone to the washroom.