Qayam Ali

The Quli Qutb Shahi Heritage Park spread over 108 acres is comprised of a vast range of habitats mapping more than 3,000 flora and 52 varieties of fauna has thrown light on availability of some of the rarest species in the city.

The Quli Qutb Shah Archaeological Park, comprising of the Qutb Shahi Tombs Complex and Deccan Park, is one of the most significant medieval necropolises with 70 structures. Besides being the most significant heritage site in Hyderabad, is a large single green space with over 100 acres of greenery.

From tenses to spellings, every thing they wrote was wrong, resulting in a rap on their knuckles from Education Minister Dalit Singh Cheema. They may now find themselves back in schools to unlearn the wrong.

Sample these: “Leak of interest”, “Staff of our school was vacant” and “Our school has situated remote area”.

These are some of the shocking errors that came to light in the written replies of 220 teachers of government schools who were asked by the Punjab School Education Board to explain the poor results of Class 10 students in English in their schools.

In a veiled message to the Modi government in the wake of the controversy over Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje, BJP patriarch LK Advani on Saturday said there is a need to maintain probity in public life and recalled how he resigned soon after his name cropped up in the Hawala scam.

Advani resigned as an MP in 1996 following allegations of his involvement in the infamous Hawala scam and he was consequently re-elected in 1998 after his name had been cleared.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the historic ruling by the US Supreme Court recognizing gay marriage across the country, saying the decision marks a “great step forward” for human rights in America.

“The Secretary-General welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court that paves the way for gay and lesbian Americans to have their relationships legally recognized, no matter what part of the country they live in,” Ban’s Deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters at the United Nations.

An earthquake of intensity measuring 5.6 on the Ritcher scale struck Assam on Sunday morning at around 6:40 am, reports the US Geological Survey (USGS).

However, according to TV reports no loss of life or property was reported so far.

Mild Tremors were felt in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and eastern part of India.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department reports, the epicentre of the earthquake is reported to be in Kokrajhar 23km north of Basugaon in Assam.

Delhi high court praises a Muslim couple’s effort to raise two Hindu orphans ‘Ayush and Prarthana’ and termed the effort as a “noble effort “.

HC recently appointed Mohd Shahnawaz Zaheer, a commercial pilot, as the guardian of the twins under the Hindu Minority & Guardianship Act.

“In a time when no one bothers to take care of orphans, we salute the efforts of Mohd Shahnawaz Zaheer though the couple in not benefited with anything”, Said Justice Waziri.

One of the high-class areas in the city, Film Nagar, immediately brings to mind luxurious buildings owned by Tollywood stars, good restaurants and of course, the omnipresent high-end vehicles. But the ‘Dream Nagar’ when viewed closely gives a different picture.

A visit to the government primary school located in Film Nagar’s slum area tells its nightmare.

According to a teacher at school, when it rains, drainage water floods the school and even reaches up to the stairs compelling children to paddle through the dirty water to enter classrooms.

Afternoon motorists speeding along the Rajiv Gandhi Bandra Worli Sea Link were shocked and amused to see a different type of “four-wheeler” galloping along the southern carriageway.

A partly-decked glowing white mare named Payal, a ‘Ghodi’, who had run away from a wedding marquee near the Bandra branch of the Sea Link, bolted toward the bridge on Tuesday and before the security officials could react, she was happily trotting beside the traffic.

In a shocking incident, a 36-year- old elected representative of Gangrar Panchayat Samiti allegedly married a 6-year-old girl earlier this week, officials of Chittorgarh district said on Saturday.

In a shocking incident, a 35-year- old elected representative of Gangrar Panchayat Samiti allegedly married a 6-year-old girl earlier this week, officials of Chittorgarh district said on Saturday.

Finding himself at odds with the US Supreme Court over its two landmark judgements upholding healthcare law and same-sex marriage, Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal wants to get rid of the court.

“Thursday, the Supreme Court had its say on Obamacare; soon, the American people will have theirs,” wrote the newly minted aspirant for Republican nomination for President in an opinion piece in Time magazine.

A seven-month-old girl died while six other children are undergoing treatment at a government hospital after being administered anti-polio injections at Shahpur village in Bihar’s Vaishali district.

Civil Surgeon (CS) of Vaishali Ramashish Kumar said that seven-month-old girl Sonali Kumari died at her home late last night after she was administered the anti-polio injection during the day.
Six other children of the village under Ganga bridge police station have been admitted to Sadar hospital for similar reason (been administered injection), he said.

An incredible new computer simulation by NASA shows the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris in motion.
The supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around Beta Pictoris shows that the planet’s motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that causes collisions among the orbiting debris.
“We essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years,” said Erika Nesvold, an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who co-developed the simulation.

Thousands of people in Kuwait took part in a mass funeral procession on Saturday for 27 people killed in a suicide bombing that targeted a Shiite mosque a day earlier.

Police in Kuwait said they are interrogating a number of suspects with possible links to the suicide bombing, which was claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State group. An Interior Ministry statement today said police arrested the owner of the car that was used by the bomber to drive to the Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City, where he detonated his device inside among the worshippers.

A research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, was allegedly molested by a contractual sweeper while she was asleep in the institute’s hostel, police said on Saturday.

The incident occurred on Thursday night.
The suspect was arrested and produced before a court on Friday, said West Midnapore Superintendent of Police Bharati Ghosh. The accused was granted bail.

According to the complaint, the man entered the research scholar’s room while she was sleeping and tried to kiss her.

A CBI court here today granted bail to a suspended Gujarat police official in connection with the 2003 Sadiq Jamal fake encounter killing case.

Special judge M M Gandhi granted bail to suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot, the last accused in the case to be still behind the bars, on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh along with the two surety bonds of Rs 5 lakh each.

Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should step down if he was finding himself “helpless” in securing resignations of four women Ministers who are under attack for alleged wrongdoing.

“If the Prime Minister is helpless in securing the resignations, he should tell people about his failure to ensure zero tolerance to corruption and offer his resignation,” party spokesman Raj Babbar told reporters.

Hitting hard at the Prime Minister over his “continued silence” over the raging controversy, he said, “four women have turned speechless the most frank and outspoken man”.

Now government employees, pensioners and their families can utilize the outpatient (OP) and diagnostic services in the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and MNJ Cancer Hospital from July 1. At present, the govt employees, pensioners and their families are eligible to secure inpatient services only.

The decision was taken in a meeting with the Minister for Health Dr C Lakshma Reddy had with Principal Secretary for Health, NIMS director, Director Medical Eeducation and other officials of Health Department on Friday.

Politicians leave no stone unturned to woo the Muslim voters across the country. With by-election for Warangal Lok Sabha seat is around the corner the politicians are throwing Iftar parties to please the Muslim voters.

Iftar parties, once a tradition to meet people of the community to understand them in a better way, have now become strategic poll planks for the politicos to appease the Muslim voters in the country especially when the elections are round the corner.

A voter turnout of 35 per cent was recorded till noon for the ongoing Assembly bypoll in Chokpot constituency of Meghalaya.

“Voting is on in all the 46 polling booths in the constituency. The voter turnout till 12 noon was about 35 per cent,” Returning Officer Tangseng G Momin told PTI.

There was no untoward incident and voting was peaceful, he said, adding that information from all booths was yet to be obtained in view of poor connectivity.

Over 24,000 electors are eligible to exercise their franchise to elect one out of the four candidates in fray.

Actress Richa Chadda may be one of the most popular faces in upcoming film Masaan but the actress says content is the real star of the film.

“Masaan is not riding on my shoulders but on the able shoulders of the film. This film is closest to my heart. I find the film spiritual and so I have been on board since the beginning. It would be unfair to say that I am carrying the film on my shoulders. The film will work for itself… It’s a team effort,” Richa told reporters during the trailer launch of the film.

With three terror attacks rocking France, Tunisia and Kuwait on so-called ‘Black Friday,’ security has been beefed up in London as two major events take place in the city.

While London’s Armed Forces Day will take place between 11 am and 6 pm at Woolwich Barracks, this year’s Pride Festival will start from Baker Street to Whitehall at about 1 pm. Last year’s event was attended by almost 750,000 people, reported International Business Times.

Experts have warned that existing efforts against AIDS and HIV aren’t enough and if the countries, which are most affected, do not amp up their efforts to curb the spread of AIDS, the epidemic may rebound in just five years time.

Report from the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission showed that the rate of new HIV infections was not falling fast enough even though unprecedented progress has been made to increase access to HIV treatment globally.

A new study has suggested that a form of “virtual-reality” therapy may help alcohol addicts reduce their craving for booze.

Chung-Ang University researchers said they are optimistic about the potential for virtual reality as a therapy for alcohol use disorders.

Senior researcher Doug Hyun Han said that this technology is already popular in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, adding that it has been used to treat phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder.

A new study has revealed how our brains can form first impressions quickly.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Aix Marseille Universite examined why volunteers who were shown hundreds of pictures, some with animals and some without, were able to detect animals in as little as one-tenth of a second.

They found that one of the first parts of the brain to process visual information, the primary visual cortex, can control this fast response, rather than more complex parts of the brain being required, as previously thought.

Change in weather during the monsoon means a change in one’s skin care regime. With oiliness, dehydration and acne being the main problems to deal with, prepare your skin during the challenging summer months this year with some helpful tips. Dust particles easily tend to settle on your skin which eventually damages the regular soft and toned look your skin possesses.

Here are some tips to keep your skin healthy and glowing in this weather from Aakriti Kochar, beauty and make-up expert, Oriflame India.