Qayam Ali Five children from across India living in shelter homes in the national capital have been reunited with their families, Delhi Police said here on Wednesday.
“Five children aged between 11 and 16 years were united recently with their respective families,” Joint Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said.
“The children belong to Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi,” Yadav said.
Five children from across India living in shelter homes in the national capital have been reunited with their families, Delhi Police said here on Wednesday.
“Five children aged between 11 and 16 years were united recently with their respective families,” Joint Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said.
“The children belong to Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi,” Yadav said.
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra’s debut American TV project “Quantico” has released its first trailer, which shows her playing a young FBI recruit.
In the ABC thriller series, the 32-year-old actress plays the lead role of Alex Parish, an agent whose past resurfaces soon after she arrives at the training camp.
Things go wrong for her after there is a terrorist attack as the authorities blame her and accuse her to be the mastermind “behind the biggest terrorist attack on New York City since 9/11”.
The highest-ranking Sikh priest Giani Gurbachan, the chief of Akal Takht, has kicked off a row after calling for Sikh couples to have at least three to four children each, saying it is the only way to halt the community’s dwindling population.
Pointing to Muslim community he said “On one hand, you have a family of two or only one child and on the other, a family of 10 children.
One billion people in the world smoke tobacco while 240 million have an alcohol use disorder, according to a new study that compiled the most up-to-date evidence on addictive disorders globally.
The study shows that almost 5 per cent of the world’s adult population (240 million people) have an alcohol use disorder and more than 20 per cent (1 billion people) smoke tobacco.
Getting good data on other drugs such as heroin and cannabis is much more difficult but for comparison the number of people injecting drugs is estimated at around 15 million worldwide, researchers said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condemned the attack in Karachi in which people from minority Shia Ismaili community were targeted and said India stands firmly with the people of Pakistan in this hour of grief.
“The attack in Karachi is deeply saddening and utterly condemnable. Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased,” he said.
“We stand firmly with the people of Pakistan in this hour of grief. I wish all those injured a quick recovery,” the Prime Minister said.
After Delhi jolt with a quake, there are rumors of quake in Telangana too, but citizens of Hyderabad need not lose sleep fearing earth quake. According to seismologists and geologists, Hyderabad is one of the safest cities in the country when it comes to earthquakes.
According to N Purnachander Rao, Principal Seismologist at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) Hyderabad may not see tremors of the magnitude of 4.5 or more on the richter scale.
An Indian-origin councillor woman has became the first Asian woman elected mayor of Ealing Council in London.
Harbhajan Kaur Dheer, 62, at a ceremony at the Victoria Hall at Ealing Council on Tuesday became the Mayor of Ealing Council after succeeding councillor Tej Ram Bagha.
“It is a great privilege and challenge to be the Mayor of Ealing Council in London. I have no illusions about the task ahead. But if I can cope up with Ranjit at home I can climb even the Everest,” Kaur said.
The main eye witness in the Narayan Sai case, Mahendra Chawla, was shot at on Wednesday in Panipat by an unidentified gunman. He was later admitted to a hospital and is said to be critical.
On April 16, the Gujarat High Court had granted conditional bail of three weeks to Narayan Sai, son of self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu.
Sai was accused of committing repeated sexual assaults between 2002 and 2005 on a woman who was living at his Surat ashram, following which he was booked under various sections of the IPC, including rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement etc.
The video clip of the deadly ‘friendly’ street bout between two youths in the Old City has shocked everyone, forcing all parents to think twice. Nabeel Mohammed, 17, died in one such fight at Panjeshah in Mirchowk on May 3 but the incident came to light only on Sunday. Police suspect that there might be a conflict between Nabeel and another boy regarding a girl they liked.
With an interesting new feature introduced by Google to the Play Store in place, you can now pre-register for upcoming Android apps.
Interested users may simply tap the pre-register icon to show their interest. Pre-registration is free for Android customers, and there’s no obligation to download or buy the app once it is live.
The process sets up an alert that prompts a user once the app is available. It is not a lock-in, since users can cancel their interest if they have a change of heart, TechCrunch reported.
American researchers have created certain chemical compounds that could lead to better therapies for people with psychiatric disorders from plant species traditionally used by healers in Nigeria to treat people with mental illness.
“After billions of years of evolution, nature has given us a great starting point for generating new types of molecules that could end up being used as innovative drugs,” said lead author of the paper Karl Scheidt from Northwestern University.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has thanked fans for loving his latest release Piku.
Bachchan, 72, who plays a hypochondriac father, took to Twitter to thank his fans.
“T 1862 – Pranaam, Namaskaar and greetings for the affection shown towards PIKU…,” Bachchan tweeted.
Set in Delhi and Kolkata, the road drama also stars Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan and Moushumi Chatterjee.
The Shoojit Sircar-directed film hit theatres last Friday and has been recieving a good box-office response.
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The Met officer on Monday said that rain with thunderstorm likely to hit Telangana and it may rain in many places of north coastal Andhra Pradesh on May 12. On May 14, thunderstorm with squall may occur at isolated places in Telangana.
The maximum temperatures fell appreciably below normal at one or two places in Telangana and Rayalaseema, and rest of south coastal AP.
A groom in Madhya Pradesh exchanged his orange safa or Turban with a sturdy helmet as upper caste men in his village attacked him with stones – all because he dares to ride a horse to his wedding.
According to sources Pawan the groom belongs to the Dalit caste and was told by upper caste villagers that members of his caste are not allowed to sit on a horse or take out grand processions, but Pawan dares to take a grand wedding by riding on horse.
Two students of the prestigious National Institute of Technology (NIT) here have got job offers from American companies with a pay package of more than hundred thousand dollars per annum.
Epic Systems Corporation of USA in the ongoing placement process has offered two students Kshitij Gupta and Ali Jaheer of B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering branch a pay package of approximately 105,000 dollars (about Rs 67 lakh per annum), Dr Rajiv Bhusan, professor in-charge (media relation) of NIT said in a release on Monday.
A girl’s decision to annul her marriage which was solemnised in her infancy has invited the wrath of the village panchayat which has slapped a hefty fine of Rs 16 lakh and banished the family from the community.
Santadevi Meghwal, belonging to Rohichan Khurd village in Luni tehsil here, decided to call off her marriage which was finalised when she was 11-month-old.
Her decision irked the village panchayat which imposed a fine of Rs 16 lakh on her and banished her family from the community, she claimed.
Britain has a Gujarati-origin lawmaker at the helm of UK politics as Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday promoted Priti Patel to his Cabinet after his surprise victory in general elections.
As the new minister of state for employment in the Department of Work and Pensions, the 43-year-old will attend Cabinet as the senior-most Indian-origin member of the newly-elected British government.
As the metro rail project is on its peak in many part of the city yet the metro line proposed in the Old City, which is the part of the Corridor II (JBS to Falaknuma) sees no progress.
Even the preliminary works such as soil test in the old city did not started. Apart from this the political and commercial factors over the realignment proposal further muddled the issue. In the given situation, it is impractical to include the Old City if we want to stick to the project schedule,” said a senior official.
An eight-year-old boy in the US has raised over 26,000 dollars through crowdfunding to aid victims of the devastating 7.9 earthquake that hit Nepal.
After learning about the April 25 quake, Neev Saraf from Maryland asked his parents, who hail from Nepal, if he could send some money from his piggy bank there.
But it was not long before Neev enhanced his ambitions even further and set out to contact his friends and family to see if they would donate as well.
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian on Monday expressed his opposition to the proposed India-Pakistan cricket series in December.
Former home secretary and MP from Bihar`s Arrah, R.K. Singh, raised the issue in the Lok Sabha during zero hour.
Alluding to Pakistan`s role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and release of its mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Singh said: “A country which is giving shelters to the terrorists, who have attacked and had carried out bomb blasts against us, what is a point of playing cricket with that country, I don`t understand.”
Adopting a novel way of making an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Muslims in this Bundelkhand district are writing to him in Sanskrit demanding establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.
“We have lauched a campaign to get an AIIMS for this district and for this, over 50,000 postcards have already been sent to the prime minister. Now, Mulsim youths and children are writing to him in Sanskrit with the demand. Soon, over 10,000 such post cards will be sent to him,” social activist Tara Patkar said.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Metro Rail officials are planning to relocate the religious structures in the middle of the roads hampering widening of arterial routes in view of construction of Metro Rail.
Responding to the efforts of traffic police, several religious committees have come forward to relocate the structures or give some of the area for road widening.
A Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, who also worked for Indian Mujahideen and is wanted in several terrorist cases, has been arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from Lucknow.
According to police, Irfan was involved in several train blasts across the country post the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.
He was later arrested and, after spending nearly eight years in jail, was released on parole, which he later jumped and had since been on the run, they added.
Wanted LeT operative Irfan nabbed in Lucknow
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In a bid to provide relief to Bollywood superstar Salman Khanfrom getting a “harsh” five-year jail term in the 2002 hit-and-run case,the Bombay High Court on Friday ruled that he does not have to go to jail till his appeal against the conviction has been decided.
Many eyebrows rose with the way Bombay HC ruled the justice for the Bollywood star- interim bail on Wednesday and regular bail within two days.
Several legal experts say such swiftness has no precedence, while few say the superstar had a political support.