Nikita Venkatesh

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said that five new IITs and IIMs will be set up across the country.

“…I also intend to set up five more IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) in Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala,” Jaitley said while presenting the budget for 2014-15.

“Five more IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management) would be set up in the state of Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Punjab and Maharashtra. I propose to allocate an amount of Rs.500 crore for this.”

An eighteen-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth at gunpoint in Bhensaheri village here, following which a case has been registered against two persons, police said.

According to a complaint filed by the mother of the girl at Chapra Police Station, Rafik and Kalam entered the girl’s house yesterday. Kalam put the revolver on the girl’s head while Rafik allegedly raped her, SHO Arun Kumar Tyagi said.

The police has registered a case against the two in this connection, Tyagi said, adding, both the accused are absconding.

Brazil’s 7-1 World Cup thrashing by Germany in their semifinal clash has reportedly become the most discussed sports game ever on Twitter, with more than 35 million tweets.

Also on Facebook, the match triggered the highest level of conversation for any single World Cup game so far, with more than 66 million people having had over 200 million interactions and hosts Brazil dominated about a quarter of the global conversation.

Barcelona has revealed that Brazilian striker Neymar’s is recovering very well from the fractured vertebra injury that ended his 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign.

Medical staff from Neymar’s club Barcelona visited the star striker at his home in Brazil to check on the problem and the player’s recovery.

A statement from the Spanish club said that the injury is progressing very well, reported The BBC.

The statement added that Neymar would continue his treatment from 5 August and the final stage of his recovery in Barcelona.

In what could alter the textbooks, researchers have declassified dinosaurs as being the great-great-grandparents of birds.

After re-examining a sparrow-sized fossil from China, they discovered that birds did not evolve from ground-dwelling dinosaurs.

“The birdlike fossil is actually not a dinosaur, as previously thought, but much rather the remains of a tiny tree-climbing animal that could glide,” explained researchers Stephen Czerkas from Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and Alan Feduccia from University of North Carolina.

In what could alter the textbooks, researchers have declassified dinosaurs as being the great-great-grandparents of birds.

After re-examining a sparrow-sized fossil from China, they discovered that birds did not evolve from ground-dwelling dinosaurs.

“The birdlike fossil is actually not a dinosaur, as previously thought, but much rather the remains of a tiny tree-climbing animal that could glide,” explained researchers Stephen Czerkas from Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and Alan Feduccia from University of North Carolina.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has begun to present his maiden General Budget for the year 2014-15.

Jaitley began presenting the budget proposals for fiscal 2014-15 with the permission of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at 11 a.m..

He began the presentation by saying that he was doing so with the full knowledge that the people of India are passing through some tough economic times, and that the government is duty-bound to address those concerns brought on by a high fiscal deficit and a high level of subsidies.

YouTube is not just helping people watch latest football World Cup highlights, it has also become a popular ground for researchers, journals and health advocates to connect directly with the public on topics of skin cancer and prevention.

A new study queried YouTube for search terms related to dermatology including “sun protection, skin cancer, skin cancer awareness and skin conditions”.
Results included 100 videos with a cumulative 47 million views. The videos were shared a total of 101,173 times.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday appreciated the restrained language of the pre-Budget Economic Survey but expressed disappointment over it envisaging a five year period to put in place reforms.

Reacting to the Survey tabled in Parliament on Wednesday he said he was glad that it acknowledged the measures taken by the UPA government on macro stabilisation front and the successes achieved in containing the current account deficit and reducing the fiscal deficit.

South Korean company LG has unveiled a wearable device that helps parents to keep a track of their children.

LG’s Kizon is worn by children but is really meant for parents, letting them know where their kids are at all times with GPS, Wi-Fi, and a direct call button, CNET reported.

Kizon gives a new way for parents and their children to communicate via a ‘One Step Direct Call’ button, and if a parent calls their child and there’s no answer, Kizon will automatically connect the call and let the parents listen to what’s going on with a built-in microphone on the device, report said.

A new study quantifying the global TB burden among children points to a huge undiagnosed reservoir of TB.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield, Imperial College London, and TB Alliance have found evidence that a large gap exists between the number of TB cases in children that get notified to authorities and the true underlying incidence.

The gap, detailed in a study published today in the journal.

Lancet Global Health, shows that TB in children is a major public health problem worldwide.

Rising prices have left people across the country expecting some relief from Arun Jaitley’s maiden Budget as Finance Minister.
A housewife from Bhopal, Mrs. Tewari said, “We have a lot of hopes from this government

They have increased the sugar prices. We are facing lot of problems. We want the prices of essential commodities to come down.”

Robert Downey Jr.’s wife Susan Downey is expecting second child with the star and the couple confirmed that they will welcome a baby girl into the world in November.

The ‘Iron Man 3’ star tweeted the news saying that “Yo. Susan. Me. Baby. Girl. November. Scorpio? (sic)”, the Mirror reported.

He also wrote on Facebook he did not know know if it was ‘man’s world’, but he was certain that women run it.

Reacting to the Economic Survey 2013-14 presented in the Parliament today, Ajay Shriram, President, CII, said it portrays a realistic picture of the economy with GDP growth estimated in the range of 5.4 to 5.9 per cent during the current fiscal.

“The growth outlook, as projected by the Economic Survey, is realistic and in consonance with CII’s prognosis which predicts that the pro-reform approach of the new government would work to revive the India growth story’ said Shriram.

Government on Wednesday rejected studies of WHO and Yale University which talked about India and its cities being among the most polluted, asserting that the parameters for determining air pollution were not considered by them.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said pollution is caused by many factors and the survey took cognisance of only air pollution and that is why India’s ranking in Yale University report has come down.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday said that choosing BJP General Secretary and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah as party president reflects the kind of path the BJP wants to take.

“Choice of the president of a political party is an internal matter of that party. But the BJP has chosen the man who was banned from entering campaigns because of his hate speeches. He was also charge sheeted in fake encounter cases. Choosing him has shows what way the BJP wants to take,” said Karat.

Mercury and other unusually metal-rich objects in the solar system may be relics left behind by hit-and-run collisions in the early solar system, scientists say.

The origin of planet Mercury has been a difficult question in planetary science because its composition is very different from that of the other terrestrial planets and the moon.

This small, innermost planet has more than twice the fraction of metallic iron of any other terrestrial planet. Its iron core makes up about 65 per cent of Mercury’s total mass; Earth’s core, by comparison, is just 32 per cent of its mass.

The UN has commemorated the centenary of World War I, lauding the courage and sacrifice of soldiers including over a million from India, and underscored the importance of reconciliation through diplomacy.

The event ‘Learning from War to Build Peace’ was organised here yesterday, jointly by the Permanent Missions of France and Germany and co-sponsored by 25 nations including India.

The opposition BJP on Wednesday demanded a judicial inquiry into police firing at Rohtas in which two persons were killed and nine others injured yesterday.

Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters that police firing on people reflected poor law and order situation in the state under JD(U) government. He demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.

Sushil Modi said that the incident triggered by exchange of “objectionable” MMS by two friends of different communities on Monday was a fallout of “lapse” on part of district administration.

A 17 year old girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the bridge into Phalguni river at Gurupur near here on Wednesday, police said.

Locals found the body of the girl, working as a sales girl in a textile shop, floating near the river bank at Gurupur Kaikamba Bridge, police said.

According to the local people, she was seen coming near the bridge in an auto rickshaw and jumped into the river as soon as the auto left. The reason for the suicide is not immediately known, police said.

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A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped by three men, including her cousin, after she was forced to consume a cold-drink laced with sedatives by the accused here, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place yesterday when the woman, a resident of Arya Nagar Ballabhgarh, was on her way to the market when she stopped by her cousin Bhupendra, they said.

Bhupendra asked her to have a cold-drink with him which she refused, police said, adding that later she had the cold-drink on his persistence, following which she fainted.

A new study has found that the light from tiny galaxies more than 13 billion years ago played a larger role than previously thought in creating the conditions in the universe as we know it today.

According to a new study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, ultraviolet light from stars in these faint dwarf galaxies helped strip interstellar hydrogen of electrons in a process called reionization.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Wednesday celebrated as the party announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide and general secretary Amit Shah as their new president.

Celebrations also took place in Kanpur and Lucknow, with party workers dancing to the beat of drums.

Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi congratulated the leader and said that the party had taken the right decision by electing Shah as the new party President.

Taking exception to TMC disrupting the proceedings in the Lok Sabha over Rail budget, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday appealed to all political parties to maintain decency and decorum in the House.

“I appeal to all political parties to maintain decency and decorum in the House. You have the right to protest, but MPs should not deprive their fellow parliamentarians of the opportunity to express their views about their regions,” Naidu told reporters outside Parliament House.

The Rajya Sabha was disrupted Wednesday as opposition members raised the issue of historic files being destroyed by the Home Ministry. The government, however, denied the charge.

Raising the issue during zero hour, the time fixed for raising issues of national importance, P. Rajeev of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said 1.5 Lakh historic files were destroyed in a hurry by the government.