Qayam Ali There shall be no discrimination in providing health and life insurances to HIV positive people and it should “preferably” at regular rate of premium, a standing committee of Rajya Sabha has said in a report on a bill to stop discrimination against those suffering from HIV/AIDS.
A 17-year-old Australian boy was charged with terror offences following a raid by police at his home in Melbourne, media reported on Saturday.
The teenager was charged after Victoria Police and Australian Federal Police personnel launched raids in Melbourne on Friday afternoon, swooping on a house where explosives were found and taken away to be detonated in a nearby park, Sky News Australia reported.
“It will be alleged the teenager was undertaking preparations for planning a terrorist act in Australia,” a police official said on Saturday.
Now in order to avail pension all the beneficiaries of Aasara pensions will have to open a bank account from June onward. Hyderabad district administration has decided to distribute Aasara pensions though bank accounts instead of handing over personally.
District collector K Nirmala directed officials to ensure that all the beneficiaries open bank accounts. She also directed district lead bank managers to make sure that all banks provide facility to open zero balance accounts for Aasara beneficiaries.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi`s scheduled `padyatra` in Telangana has been postponed for May 15 due to the extension of the Lok Sabha session till May 13.
“Due to extension of LS session till 13th May,Rahul Gandhi`s Padyatra in Telangana will now happen on 15th May,” Rahul Gandhi`s office tweeted.
The Congress vice president was to undertake the 15 kilometre yatra on May 12, beginning from Telangana`s Adilabad District and covering five villages.
Last month, Rahul undertook a day-long `kisan padyatra` from Amravati to highlight the farmers` woes.
A case was registered on Friday against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and his two aides for allegedly abducting a woman who had gone to his Sirsa ashram to attend the satsang.
The case was registered with Jawahar circle police station following a local court direction on a complaint made by the woman’s husband Kamlesh Kumar on Thursday.
Kumar said in the complaint that his wife Guddi Devi (25), was in touch with the Dera’s managing director DPS Datta for few days and Datta was inviting her to attend a satsang.
A 20-year-old student representing the Scottish National Party has become Britain’s youngest member of parliament in over 300 years after defeating Labour’s shadow foreign secretary.
Mhairi Black secured defeated Douglas Alexander, 47, in Paisley and Renfrewshire South by over 6,000 votes.
Alexander is Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman and campaign chief. The humiliating defeat ends the political career of one of Labour’s most senior figures and sums up Labour’s dismal performance and an SNP sweep in Scotland.
In a goodwill gesture, Pakistan has sent a pitcher of holy water of Katas Raj temple in Chakwal district of Punjab to BJP veteran L K Advani, who had in 2005 visited the temple for launch of restoration work.
The pitcher carrying the holy water from the ‘Amar Kund’ (holy pond) of the temple was sent to Advani on Thursday by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit. In 2005, Government of Pakistan had invited Advani, the then BJP president, to be the chief guest at a function to commemorate the restoration of the Katas Raj Temple in Pakistan’s Punjab district.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, NK Amin – the only accused left in jail in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case – was granted bail on Friday by a special CBI court on grounds of worsening health and parity with the co-accused.
The bail plea is allowed on personal and surety bonds of Rs.2 lakh each, special CBI court judge K R Upadhyay said while granting relief to Amin, who is suffering from prostate cancer. The CBI court in February this year had granted bail to IPS officers DG Vanzara and PP Pandey.
A Dalit sarpanch, is battling for life after being attacked by upper-caste Marathas, on questioning upper-caste Marathas over water diversion.
According to police the “ Dalit sarpanch Datta Haribhau Kamble, 48, of Umra village in Parbhani district a region of Marathwada asked the upper-caste Maratha community not to divert the drinking water meant for cattle to their fields, thinking scorching summer sun demands that the cattle are provided with enough drinking water”.
The Madras High Court has made it clear that a married daughter of a deceased government servant is eligible for appointment on compassionate grounds subject to submission of no objection certificate of the other members of the family.
A division bench, comprising Justice Satish K Agnihotri and Justice M Venugopal, disposed of an appeal filed by the authorities of the Education Department of Tamil Nadu government recently against the order of a single judge.
A 15-year-old girl refuses to live with her biological mother in Nellore district who had abandoned her when she was just one year old.
The girl had been brought up by her father Ravi, an RTC employee and his second wife Ms Sudha whom Mr Ravi, married again after Ms Santhi( Ravi’s first wife) left him.
Authorities in the US are still looking for an Indian-American IT professional who went missing after a suspected drunken driver knocked him into a river when he stopped to help at the scene of a car crash.
Puneet Nehra, 43, had stopped to assist with a crash on the bridge when the first crash scene was struck by an intoxicated driver. He has not been located yet. The Sheriff’s Office, along with local fire departments, have been actively searching the river by boat and helicopter.
Pakistan has questioned the veracity of India’s dossiers on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim calling them “self-serving” and said government’s comments in Parliament on his whereabouts vindicated its sustained stand that the fugitive was not in its territory.
Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit said the comments by Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in Parliament on Tuesday justified his country’s worries on the issue and asserted that India has not placed any request with Islamabad in writing for Dawood’s extradition.
An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude jolted Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The area that was jotled is 149 km southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville Island.
The epicentre, with a depth of 22.1 km, was initially determined to be at 7.3 degrees latitude south and 154.5 degrees longitude east, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has not issued any tsunami warning yet.
There are no reports of casualties or property loss so far.
social networking site Facebook to offer marketers new integrations between the two platforms.
In other words, customers will now be able to buy Facebook ads with combined data from Facebook and IBM’s Marketing Cloud customer data platform.
IBM is reported to have invested millions of dollars in its Marketing Cloud analytics, TechCrunch reported.
According to IBM, the advantage with the new approach is that the customers can take campaigns that work on Facebook and replicate them elsewhere.
According to K. Seetharam, director IMD Hyderabad Centresaid that there are 70 per cent chances that mansson will be delayed. The monsoon might reach the state after June 15, he added. Apart from a delayed monsoon, as of now, IMD has forecast that there will be less than normal rains this year.
Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Watson won the toss and chose to bowl against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Brabourne Stadium here on Thursday.
Royals made two changes to their playing 11. Chris Morris comes in for Tim Southee and Pravin Tambe for Rajat Bhatia.
Sunrisers also made two changes. Ravi Bopara replaces Dale Steyn and Ishant Sharma returns in place of Bipul Sharma.
The teams:
The quest to save her daughter from eye cancer brought the Pakistani women to Hyderabad. A child from Pakistan, who was suffering from eye cancer, was successfully treated by doctors at the LV Prasad Eye institute here in the city.
“Fatima who hails from Lahore, had been visiting the eye institute for the last two years for treatment of the eye cancer and has undergone a successful operation and is now in a better condition,’’ said DrSwathiKaliki, Consultant Ocular Oncologist, who treated Fatima.
According to the OS World University Rankings 2015, University of Hyderabad is ranked as the best University in India to learn the English language and literature Its global ranking stood at 200-250, which is better than some popular Universities in the US and Europe.
The UoH was also stands among top 10 universities from India under the subject of chemistry. UoH earned a global ranking of 300-400, alongside the University of Delhi and Banaras Hindu University. The other seven universities include six IITs and the Indian Institute of Sciences
A 15-year-old sportsperson died early on Thursday and three others, all undergoing training at Water Sports Centre of Sports Authority of India (SAI) here have been hospitalised, after they ate a poisonous fruit in an apparent suicide pact following alleged harassment by seniors.
The girls are suspected to have eaten the fruit, locally called ‘Othalanga’, around 3 pm yesterday inside the SAI women’s hostel. They were rushed to a hospital around 7 pm after they fainted and were later taken to the Alapuzha Medical College, where one of them died, the police said.
A new study has revealed that parents often misperceive their obese children as “about the right weight.”
NYU Langone Medical Center researchers believe it is the first study to examine the lack of change over time of parents’ perception of their preschool child’s weight status.
The results are important, they say, because parents with accurate perceptions of their children’s weight are more likely to implement behavior changes that could lead to weight reduction.
On 1st April, Nigeria’s ambassador to India responded to a comment made by Union minister Giriraj Singh, who said: “If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian lady and not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have accepted her leadership?” The remark revealed the casual discrimination that is so customary in India.
Nigeria’s ambassador OB Okongor was upset enough to say Prime Minister Narendra Modi is just like a toy in the hands of extremist.
One case of ‘Down Syndrome’ is reported among every 1000 live births in India and a provision has been made for initiating early intervention for the management of the genetic disorder, government told Rajya Sabha today.
Nadda said the chances of ‘Down Syndrome’ in India are lessened because marriages take place early in this country, in contrast to the western countries where marriages often take place at a later age of life.
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to six accused, including four corporate executives and a journalist, arrested in connection with the Petroleum Ministry documents leak case.
Additional Sessions Judge Gurdeep Singh Saini enlarged Shailesh Saxena of Reliance Industries Ltd, Vinay Kumar of Essar, Rishi Anand of Reliance ADAG, Cairns India’s KK Nayak, journalist Shantanu Saikia and Virender on bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of the like amount.
LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, has pleaded before an Anti-Terrorism Court to exempt him from appearing in the court, citing alleged security threat.
Advocate Raja Rizwan Abbasi, counsel for Lakhvi, filed the application in the ATC Islamabad on Monday requesting it to exempt his client from appearing in the court in the 26/11 case as he is facing “serious threats” to his life.