Qayam Ali

New App to Boost Social Skills of Autistic Kids

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Researchers have designed a new app that can help kids growing up with autism develop basic social skills.

The app, called Look At Me, aims to train autistic children to maintain eye contact and convey basic emotions.

The app was developed by Samsung in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team of clinical psychiatrists from Seoul National University and Yonsei University, South Korea.

The app uses selected Samsung devices’ cameras, putting users through a set of points-based missions, ‘Gizmag’ reported.

NIA approaches US for cyber evidence against Areeb Majeed

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A probe into the activities of Areeb Majeed, an alleged recruit of the dreaded terror group ISIS, has led National Investigation Agency (NIA) to send requests to the US among other countries for cyber evidence.

The NIA has approached the authorities in the US, Canada and Australia for providing cyber evidence under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), official sources said here.

Cancer impedimenta lying defunct at AIIMS

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Dr B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH) at AIIMS has been letting down the patients coming to get the radiation therapy. According to doctors both the machines at the radiology department are around 15 years old and laying defunct. The cancer hospital’s OPD receives more than 1,000 people in a day.

The cancer hospital at AIIMS is surviving on a two machine, one of which is not in working mode for last few months and other simulation machine partly working which stops working most of the time, said one of the doctors on condition of anonymity.

UK College Offers Selfie Course for USD 160

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A UK college here is offering its students a new course on the art of selfies and chance to become fully qualified selfie-takers.

City Lit College will offer a first ever ‘selfie course’ for Euro 132 (USD 160) starting this March called “The art of photographic self-portraiture”.

The month-long course consisting of lectures and seminars will help students “improve critical understanding of the photographic self-portrait,” The Telegraph reported.

Students can look forward to explore notions of identity, selfhood and memory.

Air India Kolkata office receives threat call

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An anonymous telephone call threatening that an Air India plane would be hijacked was made to the Kolkata office of the state-owned carrier on Saturday evening, police said.

A senior Kolkata police official said it was a brief call in Bengali threatening that an Air India flight would be hijacked. The official, however, did not specify which flight would going to be targeted.

about 500 Hindus convert to Buddhism in Bihar

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Nearly 500 Hindus, including women and children, converted to Buddhism Saturday in half a dozen villages in Bihar’s Gaya district, officials said.

All those converted to Buddhism are resident of Khanjahapur, Usri, Bara, Joda Masjid, Kukra, Beldari, Bansibigha and Tapsi villages under Manpur block in Gaya, about 100 km from here, said a district police official.

“The conversion took place at a Buddhist temple in Khanjahapur village,” said the official.Basant Mahto, a member of Bodh Gaya-based Mahatma Budh Gayan Ashram, played an important role in the event.

NASA Looks for High-Tech Airships

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NASA has called for designs of an airship that can fly at altitudes higher than the currrent 65,000-foot limit for weather balloons and for longer than the existing ones.

Weather balloons can soar to that height but are difficult to control and vulnerable to winds.

Such airships could aid scientists in research on astronomy and climate change and even be more capable than weather balloons.

An airship could carry telescopes into the stratosphere to observe stars and other celestial bodies.

Exercise for 3 mins, burn fat

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Those who feel lazy to go to gym or do not have time to exercise may be literally jumping once they read this news.

Scientists say we don’t need to work for hours at the gym to cut flab, as just three minutes of exercise a week could be enough to help you lose weight.

The secret is short bursts of intense exercise – known as high-intensity interval training.

According Scientists at Birmingham and Nottingham universities, such a session once a week is far more effective at -burning fat than daily workouts, the Daily Express reported.

Parental suicide attempt ups suicide risk in kids

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A child is five times more likely to attempt suicide if he/she has a parent who has attempted suicide in the past, research has found.

The researchers found a direct effect of a parent’s suicide attempt on a child, even after they took into account a history of previous suicide attempt by the offspring and a familial transmission of mood disorder.

The study not only confirmed that suicidal behavior can run in families but also identified the pathways by which suicidal behavior is transmitted in families.

Israel nowhere on map of Harper Collins’ Middle East Atlas

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Publishing giant Harper Collins, a subsidiary of NewsCorp, has been selling an atlas in Middle Eastern schools claiming to give an “in-depth coverage of the region and its issues” wherein the name Israel does not appear at all.

The atlas included Syria, Jordan and even Gaza but the word Israel was not mentioned even once, reported Fox News.

Haper Collins’ Facebook page said on Wednesday that it regretted the omission of the name Israel from its Middle East atlas.

The company also apologized on its page for any offense it caused to anyone.

Haryana Govt. to include Bhagwad Gita in school curriculum

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The Haryana Government has decided to include ‘Bhagwad Gita’ in the school curriculum from the next academic session for students from class five to 12th.

“We have decided to include Bhagwad Gita in the school curriculum. Gita is knowledge, Gita is our way of life Gita is science and Gita is solution,” Haryana’s Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma told ANI.

Earlier in December last year, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had called for declaring Bhagwad Gita as ‘National Scripture’.

BJP MP Demands Sacking of Azam Khan for ‘Hurting Hindu Sentiments’

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A BJP MP today demanded the sacking of senior cabinet minister Mohd Azam Khan, saying he was a “threat to the unity of the country”.

BJP MP from Ballia Bharat Singh accused Azam of “promoting those hurting Hindu sentiments and making statements causing threat to the unity of the country”.

Speaking to reporters here, Singh demanded Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to immediately sack Azam from the ministry alleging that his acts amounted to “sedition”.

Amit Shah to launch BJP’s campaign against drugs in Punjab

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BJP President Amit Shah will launch his party’s campaign against drugs in Punjab on January 22.

Stating this BJP’s national Secretary Tarun Chugh said here today that the campaign would be launched from Amritsar under the aegis of the party’s youth wing.

SaffronBSE 4.74 % party’s youth leader and MP Anurag Thakur and Punjab BJP chief Kamal Sharma would be supervising the campaign, he said.

“”The party’s drive would cover the state in three phases, with its culmination to take place on the occasion of Baisakhi on April 14,” Chugh said.

Coast Guard intercepts boat with explosives from Pak

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A possible terror attack has been averted by the timely intervention of the Indian Coast Guard, when it intercepted a suspicious fishing boat carrying explosives in the Arabian Sea, near the India-Pakistan maritime boundary which lies approximately 365 kilometres away from Porbander.

An hour of exercise curbs Parkinson’s effects!

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Just an hour of exercise thrice a week can help people with Parkinson’s disease improve their balance and even reduce risk of falling down in people with early stage of the disease, new research says.

People with Parkinson’s disease experience trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw, and face, rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk, slowness of movement and postural instability.

Three Students Injured in Gelatin Stick Blast in Bengaluru School

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In a freak incident, three students of a private school suffered ‘minor’ injuries on Friday when gelatin sticks they took from a waste dump exploded in their classroom, police said.

The children studying in the Sai Baba School at Madiwala had found the gelatin sticks lying in a waste dump while they were playing and carried them to their classroom, Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Alok Kumar said.

The explosion occurred as soon as they switched on the electric panel into which they had stuffed the gelatin sticks, he said.

Next edition of consolidated FDI policy to come out on March 31

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The Commerce and Industry Ministry plans to release the next edition of its consolidated FDI policy document on March 31, incorporating all the changes made over the past year.

“The next edition of the Consolidated FDI Policy Circular i.e. ‘Consolidated Foreign Direct Investment Policy Circular of 2015’ is scheduled to be issued on March 31, 2015, and will be effective from 1 April 2015,” the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) said.

Tata Motors’ sales up 10% in December

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Tata Motors today reported 10 per cent increase in total sales at 41,734 units in December, as against 37,836 units in the same month last year.

Domestic sales of Tata commercial and passenger vehicles grew by 8 per cent at 37,776 units as compared to 35,010 units in December 2013, Tata Motors said in a statement.

Sales of passenger vehicles in the domestic market in December stood at 12,040 units, up 30 per cent from 9,272 units in December 2013.

In the commercial vehicles segment, domestic sales remained flat at 25,736 units during the month, the company said.

Bihar CM and council Ministers list their weapons

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Bihar CM and other leaders are found to to be too fond of weapons. At least a dozen ministers in the state of Bihar, including Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, are the proud owners of arms, ranging from antiquated rifles to pistols.

Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi possesses a double barrel gun and a rifle worth Rs one lakh, but he is no match to most of his ministers when it comes to wealth.His total movable and immovable assets worth Rs 66.81 lakh.

AAP volunteers launches mobile game “Muffler man”

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Aam Admi Party on Saturday announced the launches a mobile game “ Muffler man” by AAP volunteer to collect donations for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. The muffler man campaign started on social media has now reached the mobile phones.

Out of participating donors in the campaign, 25 would be selected through a lucky draw, who will get an opportunity to join party Chief Arvind Kejriwal over a high tea when he is in the city on January 11, 2015, and take a selfie with him.

Snapdeal gets 65% of orders through mobiles: Kunal Bahl

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E-commerce company Snapdeal today said 2014 had been a “phenomenal” year for the homegrown online marketplace and more than 65 per cent of orders placed came through mobile devices.

Growing at over 600 per cent, the city-based eCommerce firm said it was also one of the top five-most searched sites on the Internet in the country last year.

“Snapdeal grew over 600 per cent this year (2014) becoming the fastest growing eCommerce company in India and a leader in mCommerce with over 65 per cent of the orders coming from mobile devices,” Snapdeal co-founder and CEO Kunal Bahl said.

Badaun shameless Cops are on the run after rapping a teen

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Again Badauna is in headlines a year after repeating the same story . One year before the policemen, who have since been suspended for the alleged rape and murder of two girls .

yet another case of sexual assault are coming in from this western Uttar Pradesh district. According to sourcestwo policeman Veer Pal Singh Yadav and Avnish Yadav raped a teenage girl. The constables, who took the girl from her home to the police station premises and allegedly raped her are on run, Superintendent of Police (City) Lallan Singh said.

Burglars robbed the buisnessman’s house flee with 50 lakh

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Burglars strike the house of a businessman in tolichowki, and flee with ornaments worth 50 lakh.

According to langer house police, Sumeet agarwal, was away from his home on Wednesday midnight partying new year celebrations. The burglars enter into the house by scaling the wall of sumeeth house.

They broke the window and theft the jewllery with much ease as the family members was on tour.

Police took the fingerprints and registered a case.

Suspense continues over government formation in J-K, BJP asserts importance

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The Bharatiya Janata Party once again said on Friday that no stable government would be possible in Jammu and Kashmir without the party’s participation, even as the suspense over government formation in the state continues. said a BJP leader “day after BJP leaders met Governor N N Vohra.

Two days ago, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, the leader of the largest party, had also met the Governor.