Qayam Ali

Explosive material recovered from a stream in Kashmir

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Police have recovered explosive material, including four detonators from a stream in Katra belt of Reasi district here.

Four detonators, six gelatin sticks and some wires were recovered yesterday from Painthal nullah (stream) in Katra, the base camp of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB), a police officer said.

The official noted that the explosives might have been used by a nearby mining factory in the area and washed away in the stream.

—PTI

2 Policemen Injured in Bomb Blast by Naxals During Combing Operations in Chhattisgarh

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Two policemen were injured in a pressure bomb blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district today, police said.

“The blast occurred near Emargunda village when the security personnel were carrying out a combing operation in the Gangaloor police station limits,” a senior police official told the Press Trust of India (PTI).

“The security personnel accidentally came in contact with a pressure bomb planted by Maoists outside the village. In the explosion, head constable Rajesh Sen and assistant constable Asharam Netam sustained injuries,” he told PTI.

Foremost priority is to provide comprehensive health services: Nadda

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Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Thursday said that his ministry’s foremost priority would be to provide assured and comprehensive health services, which will offer an assured set of services encompassing preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative healthcare.

Speaking at the second meeting of the Mission Steering Group (MSG) of the National Health Mission (NHP), Nadda said that healthcare needs to be patient centric, which is not clinically appropriate but where dignity of the patient is also respected.

Mangalyaan stirred lot of interest among youngsters, says former ISRO chairman

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Former ISRO chairman Dr. K. Radhakrishnan has said the Mangalyaan mission had stirred a lot of interest among the youngsters as they appreciated the organization’s work through their messages on social media.

Dr. Radhakrishnan stressed that children should be taught science in such a way that they take it up as an activity and added that the lesson from the Mangalyaan mission had been to accept failure and analyze the reason behind it.

Products made by Prisoners will get brand name ‘My Nation’

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Products made by prisoners ranging from bakery items to furniture, carpets, items, coir products and garments besides organic vegetables grown within the prison complex will get a brand name ‘My Nation’.

The Prisons department with the help of NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology), SS Steels, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with retail majors like the Reliance and Heritage to market these products under the brand name.

Congress senior leader Aruna warns of another T movement

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Criticizing the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for ignoring his pre-poll promises and constantly changing his statements, MLA DK Aruna and senior Congress leader warns of another T movement on Wednesday.

Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party (CLP) office here, she slammed KCR for taking unilateral decisions and implementing policies which were against people’s interests.

Wife killed, husband injured in road mishap

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A 42-year-old woman was killed and her husband got injured when the motorcycle they were travelling on got hit by a trolley, police said here today.

The deceased, identified as Sitapati, was killed when the motorcycle was hit by the trolley near Sadar area last evening, they said.

The woman’s husband, Asharfilal, was injured in the accident and has been admitted to the hospital, police said.

Toronto Squash: It is Dipika Vs Joshna in Semis

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India’s top two players, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa, will clash in the semifinals of the Women’s Granite Open squash tournament after scoring contrasting victories here Wednesday.

Third seeded Dipika was fully stretched by England’s experienced Jenny Duncalf before beating the No.5 seed 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 7-11, 13-11 in 75 minutes.

Seventh seeded Joshna produced the unexpected clash after upsetting second-seeded Australian Rachael Grinham 11-1, 11-8, 11-6 in 23 minutes.

Technical glitch in 500MW KTPS forces power cuts in TS

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Power generation at Bhupalpally power plant in Warangal has been stopped after the failure of boiler tube said the TSGenco Director (Thermal) M Achutanandam, which is going to affect the continuity of power in the T state.

Moreover the Technical glitch in 500-MW Kakatiya Thermal Power Station (KTPS) has compelled the power utilities to impose unscheduled power outages in many parts of Telangana State on Wednesday.

First South Asian Film Festival in Texas

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Fourteen films, exploring the unique circumstances and complex stories of South Asians, will be featured at the first South Asian Film Festival in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Feb 27 to March 1.

The festival featuring the stories of South Asians living in America, India, Nepal, Australia and Singapore, will bring together directors, actors, producers, community organizations, corporate brands and South Asian cinephiles.

Malaysia Detains Teen Girl Trying to Join IS

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Police have detained a 14-year-old girl suspected of trying to join the Islamic State (IS) terror group, the authorities said Thursday.

The girl, who is from Muar, was arrested before she could board a Cairo-bound flight at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, The Malaysian Star reported.

Also read: Female Terror Suspect Arrested in London Airport

A police official said the girl was planning to marry a 22-year-old Malaysian student in Cairo.

Both of them would then go to Istanbul before securing passage to Syria.

Female Terror Suspect Arrested in London Airport

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A woman travelling with her one-year-old son has been arrested in London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences, a media report said Thursday.

Tareena Shakil, 25, was held on suspicion of terrorist offences connected with a trip to Syria, Mirror.co.uk reported.

She had reportedly travelled to the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria from where she was said to have later made a dramatic escape to Turkey having refused to enter into a forced marriage.

Group Examinations: Youths are swindling by Coaching Centers

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Since the time Telangana State came into existence, millions of youth have high hopes for getting a government job. Cashing in on this sentiment, several coaching centres in Dilshuknagar, Ashoknagar, Ameerpet, Musheerabad and Secunderabad have started wooing potential aspirants promising TSPSC syllabus.

The irony is that the syllabus is yet to be announced but the gullible students are wasting money in so-called ‘highly qualified’ centers.

Most of the coaching centers charges anywhere between Rs 25,000 and Rs 1 lakh depending on the competitive examination a candidate choose.

Frequent transfers playing spoil sports of Shaadi Mubarak Scheme

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The Shaadi Mubarak scheme,launched by the State government, seems to be bogged down due to the frequent transfer of the officials and lack of staff in the Minority Welfare Department.

“We had already written to the District Collectors seeking to allot staff to make the scheme a success, but so far no action has taken in this regard”, says a transferred officer.

Sebi slaps Rs 18 lakh fine on 8 companies

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Market regulator Sebi has slapped a total fine of Rs 18 lakh on eight companies for failing to obtain registration with its online complaint system as well as not resolving pending investor grievances within the required timeline.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) through separate orders imposed penalty of Rs 4 lakh each on Asian Alloys and Mideast (India) Ltd and Rs 3 lakh fine each on Western Foods and B P Alloys.

It imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on four companies — Nijjer Agro Foods, Harpartap Steels, Arihant Threads and R S Petro Chemicals.

Over 4 kg gold seized from women passengers at Hyderabad airport

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Customs officials seized over 4 kg gold worth Rs 1.10 crore from four women passengers in two separate cases at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday as they allegedly tried to smuggle the precious metal.

In the first case, officials seized 3.32 kg gold bars worth Rs 92 lakh from three women passengers who arrived at the airport from a flight from Dubai, while 800 gram gold bars worth Rs 22 lakh was seized from another woman passenger who arrived by a flight from Bangkok, a Customs official said.

In both the cases, gold bars were hidden in inner garments, he said.

Coal scam: Koda granted bail on personal bond of Rs. one lakh

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Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is one of the accused in the coal scam, has been granted bail by a special court on a personal bond of Rs. one lakh and on the condition that he would not leave the country.

The court’s decision came even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opposed the bail plea, accusing Koda and seven others of conspiring and abusing their positions to favour the allocation of coal blocks.

Koda along with former Jharkhand chief secretary Ashok Kumar Basu and six others had been chargesheeted by the CBI in connection with the scam.

Decision on De-watering Hussainsagar is unscientific: Civil Society Bodies

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Members of SOUL (Save Our Urban Lakes) and other civil society organizations have strongly criticize the state government’s decision of de-watering Hussainsagar Lake to clean it up. Questioning the necessity, scientific basis, economics and wisdom of the decision to empty Hussainsagar into Musi River, SOUL and civil society have demanded a white paper on the discussion.

The 450-odd-years old Hussainsagar, at present, is spread across nearly 1,600 acres or 6 square kilometers and comprises nearly about 40,000 cubic liters of water contaminated with highly concentrated toxic material.

Woman found dead on Railway tracks: police suspects Husband

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A 22-year-old woman was strangled to death spotted by Locals on railway track near Kandikal gate under Chatrnika police station limits and alerted the police on Tuesday.

According to police, Ruheena Begum was married to Md Moinuddin, 27, a businessman, two years ago and the couple had a four-month-old baby.

Meet the woman who changed her name to ‘Abcdefg Hijklmn Opqrst Uvwxyz

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A Colombian woman has officially changed her name to all the 26 letters of the alphabet, in order, “Abcdefg Hijklmn Opqrst Uvwxyz.”

The 36-year-old teacher, who lives in Bogota, had been fighting red tape for more than 2 years to get approval on the name, and has finally got the right to call herself Ms Uvwxyz, or as her friends now call her Abcdefg, the Daily Express reported.

It is not the first time the Colombian woman has changed names as she made a habit of it and had previously named herself Ladyzunga Cyborg.

Electrical impulses to alter your mood via smartphone

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Feeling low and lethargic? Worry not — a new device can lift your mood at the touch of a button.

Scientists have developed a headset that uses electrical impulses to alter your mood by using a smartphone. The device consists of a set of electrodes connected to a phone and produces a short-lived energising effect that feels a little like drinking a can of Red Bull, MIT Review reported.

Called Thync, it is set to go on sale later this year, and is one of several products hoping to make home brain stimulation popular.

Risk calculators overestimate heart attack risk

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Most “risk calculators” used to gauge a patient’s chances of suffering a heart attack significantly overestimate the likelihood of a heart attack, warns a study.

Four out of five widely used clinical calculators considerably overrate risk, including the most recent one unveiled in 2013 by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, as per the findings.

US Embassy Prematurely Declares Afghan Victory

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The US embassy in Kabul seemed to get caught up in the excitement of Afghanistan’s World Cup debut today, congratulating the side on victory just half-way through the Bangladesh innings.

The Afghans made their World Cup bow in Canberra against the Test-status South Asians, completing another step in their fairytale rags-to-riches story.

The war-torn country has taken to cricket with a passion and millions are expected to follow the match via TV, radio and social media.