Nikita Venkatesh Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 people who refused to leave a street in the city’s financial district on Wednesday, a day after tens of thousands of people joined a massive march to push for democracy, free from China’s interference.
The march is an annual affair to mark the anniversary of the day China took over Hong Kong from Britain on June 1, 1997 with the promise to give the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.
Three persons were killed while another person sustained grievous injuries when their car rammed into a container near Kasheli bridge here early Wednesday morning, police said.
The speeding car rammed into the rear of the container around 4 AM close to the Kharegon toll plaza in the city.
“The local firemen and the disaster team rushed and tried to save those trapped in the car, but three of them had already died,” PSI V G Gavit of Narpoli Police Station said.
West Bengal is likely to experience heavy rainfall over the next two days, Met officials said Wednesday.
Officials at the Alipur Met Office here said most districts of the state will witness moderate to heavy rains while southern parts of Bengal will receive the maximum rain from Wednesday to Friday.
Wind will be “generally light” and Thursday night is forecast to be the wettest.
Several areas of the eastern metropolis were Tuesday night water-logged following a downpour, causing traffic snarls.
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Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Atul Anjan here today alleged that the government is not able to stop black marketing and hoarding because these black marketers and hoarders supported Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during elections and also financed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election campaigns.
A key role of the American troops in Iraq is assessing whether the country’s security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs, a top US military official has said.
Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters after a speech that some of the 750 troops in Iraq are specifically there to help determine what the US might do next to help Iraq fight an insurgency.
The health of former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee admitted to a private hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke was stable, a doctor said Wednesday.
“His condition is stable and it is improving. We tested him for brain infection and the results came out as negative but he is not fully conscious,” attending doctor Subir Mondal told IANS.
Chatterjee was hospitalised Sunday evening after he complained of restlessness.
This is the second time in the last six months that the 84-year-old has been hospitalised.
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NASA has recently tested an effective saucer shaped vehicle technology that could be used for future mars missions.
The 150 million US Dollars experimental flight was designed to deliver heavier spacecraft and eventually astronauts with a novel vehicle and a giant parachute, News.com.au reported.
Since the twin Viking spacecraft landed on the red planet in 1976, NASA has relied on the same parachute design to slow landers and rovers after piercing through the thin Martian atmosphere.
Congress party here today lashed out at Finance Minister Arun Jailtley for his inability to curb the rising inflation.
Taunting over Bharatiya Janata party’s (BJP’s) election slogan of good days, Congress leader Majid Memon said that the government is not able to stand by its slogan.
“When Finance minister himself expresses helplessness in fighting inflation then it’s a blow to the hopes of people who voted for them,” said Memon.
“The people had lot hopes from the government that it will look into the matter of inflation,” he added.
The “unparalleled” contribution of Tripura in the liberation war of Bangladesh is the subject of a new book.
In “Contribution of Tripura in the Liberation War of Bangladesh”, Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Salam Azad recalls how the northeastern state provided support to liberation war heroes and lakhs of refugees in the form of food and shelter.
He decided to write about Tripura’s contribution after he heard the story of a poor farmer who, despite finding it difficult to make ends meet, offered food and shelter to refugees fleeing Bangladesh.
Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country’s 47th Tiger Reserve with Environment Ministry notifying it as a tiger reserve with an aim to strengthen the conservation efforts of the national animal.
Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Chairperson of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Prakash Javadekar has approved the recommendation on a proposal from Maharashtra for notifying the Bor Sanctuary, New Bor Sanctuary and the New Bor Extended Wildlife Sanctuary as a core/critical tiger habitat of a tiger reserve.
Commenting on the allegations made in the Sunanda Pushkar’s autopsy report case, Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday reiterated that Pushkar was murdered and called for proper investigation in the case.
“I have been saying this from the beginning that she was murdered by a professional gang. There should be proper investigations in this case as there are certain new aspects which have come out and which strongly indicate that she was murdered,” Swamy told ANI.
Swamy said that Pushkar had told people that she will expose the corruption in IPL.
At least eight people were killed and 13 wounded after a suicide bomb attacker triggered an explosion on a bus carrying military personnel in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, officials said.
According to Dawn, the explosion happened in the heavily secured downtown area near Kabul University at a time of increasing attacks by the Taliban and other insurgents around Afghanistan, where the outcome of a presidential election is still not known.
Theatre actor Aahana Kumra, who will be seen as Amitabh Bachchan`s onscreen daughter in TV show “Yudh”, says working with the megastar has been like going on a pilgrimage.
Aahana has earlier worked in films like Anup Kurian’s “The Blueberry Hunt” and Makarand Deshpande’s “Sona Spa”. With “Yudh”, she is making her debut on television.
President Pranab Mukherjee will on Wednesday receive the first copy of a coffee table book, “First Citizen: Pranab Mukherjee in Rashtrapati Bhavan”.
Congress leader Karan Singh will release the book in the presence of the President and Philip Mathew, The Week magazine’s managing editor, at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The book has been published by The Week magazine.
It is a compilation of articles that have appeared in The Week under the title “First Citizen” from January 2013 to May 2014.
All animals – from elephants to cats – that weigh more than 3 kilogrammes take about 20 seconds to pee, scientists have found.
Even though an elephant’s bladder is 3,600 times larger than a cat’s, both animals relieve themselves in about 20 seconds, researchers found.
The study investigated how quickly 32 animals urinate. It turns out that it’s all about the same. In fact, all animals that weigh more than 3 kilogrammes urinate in that same time span, they said.
Sujit Choudhry, a noted expert in comparative constitutional law, has become the first Indian-American dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, a top US law school.
Born in Delhi and raised in Toronto, Choudhry, 44, who was the Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and founder of its Centre for Constitutional Transitions, began a five-year term as Berkeley Law’s 12th dean Monday.
Armaan Jain, who has teamed up with Deeksha Seth in his debut film ‘Lekar Hum Deewana Dil’, says he was very nervous working with his co-star because of her experience of “seven films”.
Directed by Arif Ali, ‘Lekar Hum Deewana Dil’ hits theatres July 4.
“Initially, I was under a lot of pressure about Deeksha having done seven films. I was nervous about how I was doing? Whether I was good or not? How would I do a certain thing? So, I was breaking my head about everything. So I was very nervous,” the 23-year-old said here Monday in an interview.
US President Barack Obama ignited a new power showdown with Republicans, vowing to improve the economy alone and said his administration created 9.4 million jobs in the last 51 months to “help the middle class” despite facing “obstruction”.
“We went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we have climbed back. Since then, we have created 9.4 million new jobs over the past 51 months,” Obama said.
“Corporate profits are up, stock market is up, housing is improving,” he said yesterday in his remarks on economy here.
Most sudden cardiac deaths are caused by abnormal heart rhythms called arrhythmias and researchers have uncovered new information about genes that may increase the risk of serious cardiac arrhythmias.
The researchers identified several new gene regions associated with variations in the QT interval – a stage in the heart’s electrical cycle that, if prolonged, increases the risk of drug-induced arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has saluted the efforts of the doctor community on Doctors’ Day.
“On Doctors’ Day I salute the efforts of the doctor community and wish them the very best in their efforts to create a healthy India,” Modi tweeted.
The National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on July 1 across India to honour the legendary physician and second chief minister of West Bengal Bidhan Chandra Roy.
He was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years.
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Outstation students and their parents on Tuesday heaved a sigh of relief as the undergraduate admission process at Delhi University finally kicked off, ending an agonising, week-long wait.
With the first cut-off list out for most DU colleges, students from various parts of the country and even abroad are lining up for admission in the prestigious university. Aspirants included state toppers from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, among others.
In an enticing offer, an entire US town complete with a bar, workshop, three trailers, single house and 6.16 acres of prime prairie real estate, is up for sale for about USD 400,000.
Lance Benson, the sole owner of Swett, an unincorporated hamlet in Bennett County, South Dakota, about two hours southeast of Rapid City, is putting the whole town up for grabs.
Benson, the owner of a travelling concession business, said that while he would love to keep the town, he wanted to focus on his core business.
Air India on Tuesday filed a police complaint in connection with the bomb threat call received Monday following which its Kochi-Delhi flight with 164 people on board, was asked to land at Bangalore airport in full emergency.
The national carrier in the complaint, narrated the sequence of events after they received the call at 9 PM yesterday, Spokesperson of Air India, Kochi, told PTI.
The Airport police at nearby Nedumbassery said they had received the complaint. The mobile number of the person, purported to have made the call, had been given, Circle Inspector of the station said.
Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal’s controversial comments rocked the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday with Congress staging a walk-out after the Speaker disallowed its adjournment motion demanding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement and the MP’s immediate arrest.
Immediately after the Question Hour, Speaker Biman Banerjee took up the adjournment motion and disallowed it.
The Congress members then walked out shouting slogans demanding action against Tapas Pal, who is a two-time Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnagar.
An Italian tourist was allegedly robbed of her handbag containing her passport, Rs 10,000 and 300 euros in cash on board a Rajasthan government-run bus, police said here Tuesday.
The tourist, Sayana Pontogolio, had boarded the bus at Barmer on Sunday night. Yesterday morning when she was about to get down at Sindhi Camp Bus terminal here, she found her handbag missing.
An FIR under Section 379 (theft) of the IPC has been registered at Sindhi Camp bus stand police station and a probe is on into the matter, Station House Officer Manoj Sharma said.
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