Qayam Ali Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mufti Mohammed Syed on Saturday said that Jammu and Kashmir’s betterment would be his only concern while indulging in negotiations for government formation in the state, adding that he will not trade the mandate given to his party by the people of the state.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revoked the ban on carrying currency notes of the denominations Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 to Nepal and Bhutan.
The RBI amended a regulation which it had imposed since May, 2000 to allow export and import of currency notes of higher denominations from the two countries. The Central bank, however, has put an upper limit for carrying such notes at Rs. 25,000 per person.
The government had imposed such a regulation to curb the smuggling of counterfeit currency to India. The restriction had created inconvenience to a large number of Nepali workers in India.
Saidabad Police have arrested a 16 year old boy and alerted the section of law in the custodial death of 11 year old Asif.
According to sources Asif was an inmate of the Govt Juvenile home was found dead mysteriously besides sleeping area. Police found the nail marks on his neck and forensic doctors too told the investigation that boy was strangulated to death.
Police arrested a 16 year old boy of same Home, who confessed to have killed the boy by pressing his neck to the washbasin after he was sodomised. The accused is in the custody of the Home authorities.
Demand for Residential spaces are continuously rising in commercial pivots like Madhapur, Gachibowli, Uppal and Manikonda as the citizens have the benefit of having to pay a lower price for spacious apartments than in the central areas.
Central locations are no longer the only areas in demand as citizens are willing to move into peripheral areas of Hyderabad for the effective price. The upcoming metro rail is another factor which is driving away people from central locations.
Censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi have decided to ban the film because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names,” according to “Dawn”.
Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Baby’ which is about an Indian spy on a mission to catch a dreaded terrorist is ban by the Pakistan censor board.
“Censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi have decided to ban the film because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names,” the Dawn newspaper said.
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Oil prices took a bounce after the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Shah Abdullah added more uncertainty to the market that has more than halved over the last six months.
King Abdullah died in the wee hours of Friday and his brother Salman declared as a new king, by the royal court.
Saudi state television said King Salman intended to keep oil minister Ali al-Naimi in place, suggesting the country’s oil policy would remain unchanged.
US President Barack Obama has said “safe havens” of terrorism inside Pakistan were not acceptable and those behind Mumbai terror attacks must be brought to justice.
“I have made it clear that even as the US works with Pakistan to meet the threat of terrorism, safe havens within Pakistan are not acceptable and that those behind the Mumbai terrorist attack must face justice,” Obama said in an interview to India Today magazine which has been published in the upcoming issue of the weekly.
A Nigerian woman was held with 20Kg of Ephedrine drug y Narcotics control Bureau, when she was trying to smuggle it at Rajive Gandhi International Airport ion Shamshabad.
According to sources the young woman Linda Ronn was trying to board a flight top Sauth Africa at Shamshabad Airport with packets of drugs, was seized by the NCB officials.
This is the first major incident in which bulk of drugs seized, said an official.
Osmania University has decided not to allow students aged above 25 years to get admission into any of the course available at OU from the upcoming year.
“There are many students aged above 25 years who are pursuing their Ph.Ds. Most of them lack clarity in their academics. Therefore, from the upcoming year, we will make sure on making them more employable rather than enrolling them in further academic programmes,” said E Suresh Kumar, the university’s new registrar.
Based on the suggestions from the central team, the government decided to bear the expenditure for testing samples at the Institute of Preventive Medicine. Patients admitted to private hospitals have been paying Rs 3,500 for each sample.
NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually using a wearable technology.
Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the software called OnSight will give scientists a means to plan and, along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red Planet.
“OnSight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around and explore Mars right from their offices,” said Dave Lavery, programme executive for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
A farmer was allegedly shot at by two bike-borne assailants near Buada village under Khatauli police station here, police said today.
The incident happened yesterday when Mainpal (40) was carrying sugarcane crop to a mill in his tractor trolley when two men on a bike shot at him and escaped, they said.
—PTI
The S&P BSE Sensex pared its initial surge but was trading still higher by 235.10 points in late morning trade, tracking higher global cues amid the European Central Bank (ECB) announcing a bigger-than-expected stimulus programme.
Brokers said that apart from robust rally in global markets following the ECB’s stimulus measures to kickstart the Eurozone economy, positive investor sentiments in view of pre-budget optimism helped the Indian equities attract fund inflows.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir are pinning their hopes on U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit, as they expect him to speak about the Kashmir issue and help improve relations between India and Pakistan.
“There are a lot of expectations from Obama. If he is interested in the Kashmir issue, then he should think about it and do something. He can bring the two nations close to each other. I think if he is interested, then something good can happen,” said a resident, Mohammad Ashraf.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president-in-exile N. Srinivasan on Friday refused to comment on the Supreme Court’s verdict in connection with the Indian Premier League spot-fixing case.
“I am not speaking. I will not speak. I will stand here till evening also, but I will not speak,” Srinivasan told media persons here while visiting the Sri Sharada Peetham Temple here.
Do you buy luxury products such as designer clothes that signal success and make you feel better? This type of retail therapy can actually backfire and leave you thinking more about your failures.
According to a team of researchers, this behaviour can strip consumers of their mental resources and impair their self-control.
“When consumers experience a psychological threat to how they would like to see themselves, buying products that signal accomplishment in the same area of their life could ironically cause them to dwell on their shortcomings,” the authors said.
Rising for the fifth day, gold today added another Rs 320 to trade at an over five-month high of Rs 28,500 per ten grams and silver regained the Rs 40,000 per kg level after a gap of four months at the bullion market, driven by wedding season demand amid firming global cues.
Silver prices moved up by Rs 950 to Rs 40,150 per kg on increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers.
An elderly woman, Khader Bee, was allegedly beaten by men at the local women’s police station for refusing to allow her son and daughter in-law to get separated from the family. This evoked strong criticism from all sections.
According to sources the couple married for one year. The police allegedly tortured Khader Bee from the morning till evening following a complaint by her daughter-in-law and her father.
Chief Minister KCR announced on Tuesday that an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will be set up at Bibinagar in Nalgonda. The little-known Bibinagar town could well emerge as the medical hub of the new Telangana state soon.
As per the AP Reorganisation Act, the Centre has allotted an AIIMS to Telangana as well as AP. The Chief Minister paid a visit to Bibinagar reviewing the availability of land after Center gave a nod for AIIMS in Telangana.
Market regulator Sebi has notified new rules that allow launch of two new schemes in a year by mutual fund houses with net worth below Rs 50 crore.
However, such permission would be considered on a case-to-case basis, depending on such Asset Management Companies (AMCs) demonstrating that serious efforts are being made by them to meet the net worth requirements within the prescribed timelines.
Shares of SpiceJet on Wednesday tumbled nearly 8 per cent after Mumbai Airport asked the budget carrier to immediately pay the pending dues of Rs 5 crore and provide a bank guarantee of Rs 15 crore.
Reacting to this, shares of SpiceJet plunged 7.82 per cent to Rs 21.20 on the BSE.
Mumbai Airport had yesterday asked the budget carrier SpiceJet to immediately clear its dues amounting to Rs 5 crore and provide a bank guarantee of Rs 15 crore, an issue the airline claimed has been “sorted out”.
Shiv Sena protested against Uttar Pradesh minister and BSP leader Haji Yakub Qureshi for his controversial comments in Muzaffar, and announced a reward of 1 lakh to the one who will beat Yakoob Querishi by shoe.
BSP leader defended the terror attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and Qureshi had also announced a reward of Rs 51 crore to the killers of the Paris journalists.
The combined wealth of the richest one percent will overtake that of the other 99 percent of people next year unless the current trend of rising inequality is checked, said a report issued by charity group Oxfam.The report was issued Monday ahead of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in approximately 94 countries world wide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers as injustice around the world. It was founded in 1942 in Britain.
Members of Telangana Hijra Transgender Samithi raised a demand on Monday that a separate transgender commission along the lines of Human Rights Commission and Women’s Commission should be set up in the State.
The demand raised by Transgender after the murder of a transgender Pravalika in the wee hours of Saturday in Kukatpally.
The members also demanded the implementation of Supreme Court order on improving the conditions of transgender by
providing education, employment and other welfare measures.