Qayam Ali As a bone to the tech-savvy travelling public, the Secunderabad railway station will have Wi-Fi facility from Tuesday and the facility will be launched by the Union Minister of state for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya.
This is being done as a part of a modernization process for all ‘A’ and ‘A1’ category stations across the country. Railway stations in New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore already have wi-fi facility.
A 40-year-old man allegedly sodomised a six-year-old boy for nearly eight months and threatened him with dire consequences if he revealed the offence to anyone, police said today.
The accused sodomised the boy residing in his neighbourhood from August 2014 till last month at his home in Sawarkar Nagar area of the city by calling him on some pretext, Vartak Nagar police station sub-inspector Sayli Chavan said.
Affirming the BJP’s stand on abrogating Article 370 of the constitution, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday asserted the government will not tolerate anyone raising pro-Pakistan slogans.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the ruling National Democratic Alliance government, has steadfastly demanded over the years that Article 370 which guarantees a special status to Jammu and Kashmir be repealed.
“There are no two ways about our stand on Article 370,” Singh told mediapersons here.
Pope Francis recently revealed that he has not watched television since July 15, 1990, ever since he promised the Virgin of Carmen that he would eschew it.
The Pope’s refusal to watch television, however, does not prevent him from keeping up to date with the results of his beloved San Lorenzo de Almagro football team, as there’s a Swiss guard who gives him the update on the team every week, reported The Independent.
A brief class by his teacher on the Rameswaram seashore on how birds fly and the locomotive force behind their flight gave former President APJ Abdul Kalam his aim in life and helped him in understanding physics better.
This and several nuggets about Dr Kalam’s life besides advice for young people on careers in areas like robotics, aeronautics, neurosciences, pathology, paleontology and material sciences find mention in a new book “Reignited: Scientific Pathways to a Brighter Future,” co-authored by Dr Kalam and his former scientific advisor Srijan Pal Singh.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that the heat wave conditions may subside in Telangana in the next 24 hours and has issued a red alert for Coastal Andhra Pradesh for the next 48 hours.
However, the worst is not over yet and the weather will still be hot with mercury hovering around 42- 43 degree Celsius. “Therefore, people are advised to take precautions,” said YK Reddy, director-in-charge, Hyderabad Meteorological Centre.
India is planning to ask Pakistan to seize assets of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and most wanted terrorists Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi as all three are in the UNSC’s al Qaeda sanctions list which makes it incumbent upon Islamabad to freeze their holdings.
The UN Security Council’s al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee has listed Dawood, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Saeed and Mumbai terror attack key conspirator Lakhvi and put sanctions on them.
Attending office for the first time in her 5th stint as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa today cleared a string of welfare proposals worth Rs 1800 crore and declared open 201 more eateries under the populist ‘Amma Canteen’ scheme.
Getting down to the business of governance in the state where elections are due next year after being sworn in yesterday, Jayalalithaa cleared a slew of welfare schemes worth over Rs 1800 crore, including those for improving road and drinking water facilities and extending assistance to indigent families headed by women.
A 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her neighbour following which he has been arrested today.
DSP Manpreet Singh Dhillon said the accused Jaspal Singh alias Jassa, 30, took the victim to Ludhiana and raped her in a guest house there two weeks ago.
The victim lodged a complaint yesterday following which Singh was arrested today, police said.
The woman’s medical examination was done at a local civil hospital yesterday.
A case under section 376 (Punishment for rape) of the IPC has been registered against the accused, DSP said.
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The CPI has condemned Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s “to neutralise terrorist through terrorist only” remarks and expressed concern over it.
The party said this during its two-day National Executive meeting held here between May 22 and May 23.
“The meeting expressed its serious concern over Defence Minister Manohar Parrikars statement that terrorism would be met with terrorism and condemned it, CPI National Council Secretary and media co-ordinator Shameem Faizee said in a statement.
With Assembly polls due later this year and the merger of Janata Parivar parties virtually in doldrums, BJP has decided to take to the public the verbal duel of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD President Lalu Prasad when they were in opposing camps.
The saffron party has prepared folders containing some of the choicest remarks made by the two leaders against each other, which will be taken by its workers in the door-to-door campaign to be launched across the state on May 26, state party chief Mangal Pandey said today.
Cricket fans will have a rain free Indian Premier League (IPL) final between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Eden Gardens here, the Met office said on Sunday.
An official said the sky will remain clear through the evening. “But the weather will be hot and humid.”
The match is slated for an 8 p.m. start.
As the Irish government has approved the same-sex marriage with 1.2 million people of Ireland voting in its favour, B-Town celebrities including Hrithik Roshan have also supported the decision.
On Friday, Ireland voted in a referendum — whether the Constitution should be changed so as to extend civil marriage rights to same-sex couples. From early Saturday, large crowds gathered at Dublin Castle to hear the final official result.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny also welcomed the results, saying that Ireland has become the first country in the world to vote for equal marriage.
Senior PDP leader Tariq Hameed Karra today demanded setting up of institutions of higher learning like IIT and IIM in the Valley for their “equitable” and “justifiable” distribution in Jammu and Kashmir.
“While Jammu region is within its right to ask for another AIIMS for the region, the people of Kashmir also have a right to press for setting up of institutions like IIT, IIM and IIMC which have been exclusively established in Jammu,” Karra said in a statement here.
Islamic State (IS) militants have killed about 400 people since they stormed the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria last Wednesday, media reported on Sunday.
Most of those killed in the millennia-old oasis city were women and children, Xinhua news agency reported citing the official Syrian TV.
Last Wednesday, the IS militants took full control of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria.
A 35-year-old truck driver was killed today after being allegedly hit by an unidentified vehicle in Jalalpur area here, police said.
Pannelal Yadav (35), a truck driver was killed after being hit by an unidentified vehicle today while he was checking his truck in Jalalpur area, they said.
The man was killed on the spot, police said, adding that the matter is being probed.
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Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the Congress has no moral right to criticise the Centre, which has successfully provided a corruption-free government to the country in the past one year.
Addressing media persons at the Bharatiya Janata Party state office here in Odisha at an event organised to mark one year of the Narendra Modi government, Sitharaman said it has wiped out corruption at all levels and the process would be sustained for the next four years.
She said there was a scam almost every day during UPA-II.
Arunachal Pradesh can be developed as a model state in the country, its outgoing Governor Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma said.
This would be possible becuase of its vast natural resources and hard working people, Sharma, who has been appointed as Governor of Mizoram, said in his farewell party last evening.
Besides, “Arunachal Pradesh would soon touch new heights of prosperity,” he said and appealed to all to join hands to achieve the desired goal, an official communiqu? said here.
To mark 100 days of the AAP government, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers will hold a public meeting in Connaught Place here on Monday.
A Delhi government official said Kejriwal will discuss the achievements of the Aam Aadmi Party government in 100 days in an interactive session with the residents of the capital at Central Park.
The AAP swept to power winning 67 out of 70 seats in February. The government completes 100 days on Monday.
A senior party leader said the government had fulfilled most of its promises and was dedicated to public welfare.
Four children were today injured in an explosion in a heap of garbage at Chhapegram village in Bijnore district, police said here.
The incident took place at about 11 AM in Nahtaur area when the children identified as Jikara (7), Asif (4), Rehbar (5) and Ali (2) were playing near a heap of garbage, they said.
All of them were rushed to the district hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger.
Prima facie the explosion appears to be caused by firecrackers thrown in the garbage, police said, adding, they are probing the matter.
The hills of Himachal Pradesh continued to sizzle Sunday with Una recording a maximum temperature of 42.4 degrees Celsius and state capital Shimla a high of 29.2 degrees Celsius, the weatherman said.
“Most of the towns recorded a maximum temperature of three to seven notches above the average, mainly due to lack of rains,” an official of the meteorological office here told IANS.
He said Shimla’s maximum temperature was seven notches above the average.
However, some of the areas, including Shimla, saw mild rains.
It is not appropriate for the Indian armed forces forever to fly their fleet to the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) for repairs, a top scientist said here on Friday.
“The equipment repair overall, they give to the OEM, they go back to Israel or anywhere the equipment is bought from. That is not the appropriate way of doing it forever,” said K. Tamilmani, director general of Aeronautical Systems, told IANS on the sidelines of the launch of India MRO.
The intense heatwave in Telangana today claimed 58 more lives, taking the death toll to 186 in the state.
“186 persons lost their lives in 10 districts of Telangana as per information available till 5 PM today,” a senior official of State Disaster Management Department, told PTI.
Nalgonda district recorded the maximum number 55 of deaths, followed by Khammam district at 43 and Mahabubnagar district at 23, the official said.
In Hyderabad, two persons have died due to heatwave.
The toll is registered from April 15 in Telangana, the official said.
Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as “two sides of the same coin”, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday alleged the BJP and the Trinamool Congress have a tacit understanding.
“Modi and Mamata are two sides of the same coin. They are each others’ most trusted friend and both show similar traits,” Ramesh told media persons here.
Veteran BJP leader L K Advani, who has been sidelined by the new regime in the party, today lauded the teachings of the RSS which, he said, placed emphasis on keeping ethical and moral values in public life, essential for serving the nation.
“The biggest contribution that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh make in the public life is emphasising that even if you become active in politics, unless you commit yourself to ethical values, commit yourself to being morally upright in all that you do, you will not be able to serve the country or serve even in politics..”