Nikita Venkatesh Describing his five-day bilateral visit to China as fruitful and productive, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that the Chinese leadership is keen to establish personal-level contacts with India’s new leadership.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party is widely expected to nominate him as a candidate for the country’s first directly elected presidential race.
The move could keep him at Turkey’s helm for at least five more years.
Erdogan has been power since 2003 and is barred by party rules from running as prime minister again. His candidacy is expected to be announced at a party meeting on Tuesday.
A most-wanted Maoist has been arrested in Jharkhand’s Chatra district.
Based on information received, police officials of Chatra arrested Bindu Ganjoo, a Maoist belonging to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The police had announced a reward for finding Ganjoo, who has been wanted for over five rebel attacks. Chatra police have been searching for him since 15 years.
Google is still working on multi language support system on Google Now which was to be launched in the few days hence postponing the launch.
Google engineers has discovered some software malfunctions in the final stage of the testing and it will take some time to fix those bugs, CNET reported.
This feature is now expected to be launched late this summer, and it will include a multilingual Google support which would contain seven languages as well as the default language. One can use these languages to carry out their Google Search and Google Now needs.
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The toll in the collapse of an 11-storey building in Chennai has gone up to 27, a report said on Tuesday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had on Monday announced an increase in solatium to the families of the dead belonging to Tamil Nadu by Rs 500,000 to Rs 700,000.
The under-construction residential building in Moulivakkam area in Porur collapsed on Saturday evening, trapping over 70 people.
The residential project Trust Heights was being developed by Prime Sristi Housing Pvt Ltd. The project comprised two 11-storey blocks – The Belief and The Faith.
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be seen without make-up in his much awaited TV show `Yudh`. The 71-year-old actor plays the character of a real estate baron, Yudhisthir Sikarwar, in the upcoming show.
Anurag Kashyap, the creative director of the show, took a deliberate decision of `no makeup` for the artists and the entire cast welcomed it.
Orkut, Google’s first social networking site, will cease to exist after September, with the Internet giant deciding to shut down the service launched 10 years ago.
Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is very popular in India and Brazil, on September 30.
The service, however, did not do so well in other parts of the world and lost sheen to rivals like Facebook.
Orkut, which popularised posts or “scraps” between friends, did not disclose the number of users on the website.
Filmmaker Mohit Suri says his wife Udita Goswami is “musically inclined” and wanted to be a rock star but ended up being an actor.
His cousin Pooja Bhatt had launched Udita in Bollywood with her 2003 film “Paap” and two years later Suri directed the actress in her second film “Zeher”.
“Udita wanted to be a rock star but ended up being an actor. She is more musically inclined,” said Suri who tied the knot with Udita in 2013 after dating her for about nine years.
“Right now she is doing her music production course. She is already working it out to perform as a DJ,” he added.
Six persons, including two children, were killed and two others seriously injured when their car collided head-on with a truck in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district on tuesday.
The incident occurred at Semalia Ghata when the victims were on their way to Ajmer from Banswara, police said.
A man, three women and two children died on the spot, they said.
The injured have been admitted to a government hospital in Udaipur.
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday congratulated sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik for winning prizes at the World Cup of Sand Sculpting 2014 held in Atlantic City in the US.
“In the field of sand art, Sudarsan is a renowned name,” the chief minister said in a statement here.
“He has won many prizes internationally for his magical art and creativity. With this success, he has been able to get recognition for Odisha`s art and culture throughout the world. I wish him good luck to achieve more success in future.”
A new study has revealed that common type of ocean bacteria is natural source of producing compounds, which are nearly identical to man-made toxic fire retardants.
Among the chemicals produced by the ocean-dwelling microbes, which have been found in habitats as diverse as sea grasses, marine sediments and corals, is a potent endocrine disruptor that mimics the human body’s most active thyroid hormone.
The next round of annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue would be held in Beijing on July 9 and 10.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew would travel to China next week for this comprehensive dialogue between the two countries.
They would be joined for the Dialogue by their respective Chinese co-chairs, State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang, along with members of the US delegation and their Chinese counterparts.
The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Najam Sethi has admitted that without the clearance of the Indian government the bilateral six-series agreement signed with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was useless.
“We are very hopeful that the first series of this agreement will be played next year in December because everything is now on paper but eventually everything will depend on clearance from the Indian government,” he told the media in Lahore today.
Two male elephants were crushed to death by a speeding train at a level crossing in Alipurduar in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Tuesday.
The incident happened when the two wild elephants from nearby forest were crossing the track near the Madha tea garden between Hashimara and Hemiltongonj, deputy field director of Baksa (West) forest range Apurba Sen said.
The seriously injured animals succumbed to their injuries, he said.
The pachyderms were hit by a Guwahati-bound train from New Delhi carrying army personnel.
Residents of Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow woke up to heavy rains on Tuesday that brought down the temperature, giving much relief to the people from the hot and humid weather.
It started raining a little before 7 am and continued for more than an hour. The city like other regions has been reeling under unprecedented heat wave conditions for the past one month.
The last month was the third driest June in Lucknow in the past 114 years, said Met officials, adding that the rainfall recorded in June was only 92.4 mm.
A deluxe bus service that connects this Himachal Pradesh town to Leh in Jammu and Kashmir restarted on Tuesday after remaining closed for over seven months due to snowfall, an official said.
One-way fare is Rs 2,500, which includes a night’s stay at Keylong, dinner and breakfast.
“The 35-seater bus will leave Manali twice a week at 9 am. After stopping overnight at Keylong (in Lahaul-Spiti district), it will reach Leh next day in the evening,” Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) general manager Yogesh Behl told a news agency.
Concerned over the rise in prices of food items, the Centre Monday swung into action with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking stock of the situation and the states being told to take urgent measures against hoarding and ensure “uninterrupted” flow of supplies.
The Centre has also called a meeting of state Food and Consumer Affairs ministers here on July 4 to discuss measures to contain inflation, that rose to 6.01 percent in May.
The meeting, to be chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, will discuss among other things implementation of the National Food Security Act.
Facebook has clarified their act of ‘altering users’ content’ by saying that they care about the emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use the product.
Facebook data scientist and co-author of the study Adam Kramer said that they felt that it was important to investigate the common worry that seeing friends post positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out. At the same time, they were concerned that exposure to friends’ negativity might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook, The Verge reported.
Russia is designing a carrier rocket of the super-heavy class, capable to deliver spacecraft for missions to the Moon and Mars, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Monday.
“We’ll hold a meeting in August to discuss the plans to design the rocket carrier,” Xinhua quoted Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko as saying, adding that the draft proposals were sent to leading Russian space enterprises.
The super-heavy 120-to-190-tonne rocket will be designed as a separate rocket carrier, not as a modernisation of the Angara rocket, he said.
Goa’s agriculture department is worried as the rain deficit in the first month after arrival of south west monsoon may pose problems for farming activity in the state.
The meteorological observatory in Panaji has recorded 49 per cent rain deficit in the first month, teamed with the late arrival of monsoon in the state.
The monsoon had arrived on June 11 in Goa as against the scheduled arrival on June 2.
State Agriculture Director Prajapati Tufani admitted that the current trend of rain is worrisome for paddy farming.
“We have to pray to God for showers now,” he said.