Qayam Ali Reality TV star Ajaz Khan will be entering the current season of ‘Bigg Boss’ tonight as the first challenger of its new series ‘Bigg Boss Halla Bol’.
Ajaz, who is currently filming his upcoming movie ‘Love Day’, took a break from shooting to be a part of the celebrity reality show.
“I was shooting for the film when I got a call from the channel to participate on the show”.
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Giving more jitter to the city, Gandhi hospital witnessed one more swine flow case.
Yet in another case a 25 year old, nine months pregnant women who is shifted to Gandhi hospital yesterday, residence of ECIL, tested positive for swine flu virus.
From a 17 months old infant to a 53 old man are battling for life at Gandhi hospital. The patients are kept under the vigilance of doctors and are being treated at the swine flow isolation ward.
According to doctors, the 53 old man is on ventilator. Condition of boy from Secundrabad is stable, said doctors.
Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to India, Bulat Sarsenbayev, believes that neither his country nor India should be overly concerned about the expansionist designs of China, but rather both should seek to maximize bilateral and economic contact with Beijing for the overall benefit of the peoples of the three nations.
In an interview given to ANI, Ambassador Sarsenbayev did not agree with the view that Astana and New Delhi are very concerned about growth and expansion of China economically and strategically.
An AirAsia plane with 162 people on board went missing, while on its way from Indonesia to Singapore this morning shortly after the pilots requested a change of flight, because of weather.
The search is on for missing plane that lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control Sunday
The third major aviation incident this year involving a Malaysian carrier.
Of the people on board the Airbus A320-200, 156 are Indonesian, three from South Korea, one is French, one is Malaysian and one is Singaporean, the airline said.
The Congress on Sunday sought to corner the government by asking what its response would be if Pakistan refuses to handover underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India.
“The question is not what India has asked for; the question is this government should tell the country what it would do if Pakistan refuses to handover Dawood Ibrahim,” Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is urging the Pakistani government to end executions of terrorists and restore the moratorium on the death penalty that was lifted following the Peshawar school massacre.
According to Dawn News, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that all legal norms would be respected.
Ban spoke to Sharif on Thursday to express condolences after the Taliban school massacre that killed 141 people.
Sharif ended the six-year moratorium on the death penalty in the wake of the deadliest attack in the history of Pakistan.
Three minor children of a tribal family, including a girl, were burnt alive and one was seriously injured in Mizoram as their hut went up in flames, police said Friday.
“Three children, aged between six and three years, were burnt to death after their bamboo hut gutted early Thursday at Vairengte village along the Mizoram-Assam border,” a Mizoram police official said.
He said the victims’ parents were away when the tragedy struck. A nine-year-old brother of the children suffered over 70 percent burns and is admitted to a government hospital in critical condition.
A case has been registered against a leader of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha for allegedly making objectionable remarks and announcing that a “temple” dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse will be constructed here, police said on Friday.
The case has been registered against national general secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha Acharya Madan under IPC Section 504 (insulting another person with intention to provoke breach of peace) and Section 505 (1) (making, publishing or circulating rumours) at the Brahampuri police station, SP (City) Om Prakash said.
It has been reportedly revealed that a bat, which once belonged to late Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, would be placed on Mount Everest in a tribute to the batsman.
Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards said that the Cricket Association of Nepal had come forward with the Everest idea, Sport24 reported.
He reportedly also said that there were plans for a 63-over game to be played in Nepal in a tribute to Hughes who was 63 not out when he endured the fatal injury, the report added.
West Bromwich Albion football team manager Alan Irvine is not sure if he would remain as the club’s boss following their 3-1 humbling by defending champions Manchester City.
West Brom’s 3-1 loss to City left Irvine’s men two points above the relegation zone after a run of two wins in 12 games. Irvine is favourite to become the first Premier League manager to be sacked.
Two people died in Haryana due to piercing cold wave and thick fog that has severely disrupted normal life across North India.
Nearly 100 trains have either been canceled or delayed in due to low visibility caused by dense fog. Road traffic is also severely affected in the region.
Mercury levels have dropped significantly at most places. In Uttar Pradesh, most parts are enveloped in fog, crippling road and rail communication.
Over three dozen trains are running late and the schedule of several flights have also been changed.
The Russian government assured that the country’s currency crisis was over, but warned of economic hardship ahead. President Vladimir Putin told that his Govt fighting the worst economic crisis since 1998.
The rouble plunged to all-time lows last week on heavy falls in the price of oil, the backbone of the Russian economy, and western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis that made it near impossible for Russian firms to borrow on western markets.
BJP started the election campaign with a much hyped 44 plus agenda in Jammu and kasmir. Whereas National Conference was sure that it will win more than the 28 seats, but results out with tarnishing their dreams. The assembly polls threw up a hung house, with the Peoples Democratic Party winning 28 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party a record 25, the ruling National Conference 18 and the Congress slipping to 12 seats.
The Rajasthan Police is investigating an email received by 16 ministers in their official mail, sent by terrorists group, threatening a terror strike on January 26, Republic Day.
The police said, we are examining the credibility and authenticity of the email trying to verify whether it is a hoax to create panic in peak tourist season in the state. “We are looking into where the mail came from and who sent it.
Three days after the Deputy CM T Rajaiah has visited the Osmania hospital and has assured to improve the rotting condition of Osmania hospital, but still the sanitation and the overall standard shows zero improvements.
Deputy CM T Rajaiah’s stayed a night at the Osmania General Hospital (OGH), and vowed to improve the standard of the government hospitals in the city, but even after a month, the unhygienic conditions remains, off course, the condition have gone from bad to worse.
Malik Ishaq dreaded chief of banned LeJ has carried out attacks on minority Shias and the mastermind of the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, has been released after three years in jail with the Pakistan government not seeking an extension of his detention.
Ishaq has been under detention for the last three years under a public security order for making “provocative” speeches.
The South Central Railway (SCR) is planning to provide direct rail connectivity from major terminals of Lingampalli and Secunderabad to Umdanagar, which is the nearest station to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad.
In this connection, according to a press release, SCR general manager, PK Srivastava held a meeting with senior officials and discusseda about say senior SCR officials, giving a detailed plan of running diesel electric multiple unit,trains .
As part of safety to women and particularly to women employees in the IT corridor here, Cyberabad Police today launched 60 ‘SHE Teams’ to control eveteasing and stalking of women.
The SHE Teams will spread themselves out in the 200 hotspots identified in Cyberabad area. They will watch out for eve teasers/stalkers at bus stops, colleges among other places, Cyberabad Police Commissioner C V Anand told reporters.
Each team will comprise of SI/ASI rank officers and women constables who will be provided with spy cams to film the acts against women as evidence, he said.
In Telugu states and especially in Andhra region Sankranthi is one of the biggest festival celebrated.As the festival is approaching, Andhra Pradesh government offered a special gift pack for the citizens.
Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu today announced Sankranthi gifts to the people of the state holding White Ration Cards. Chandra Babu said that Governemtn will give 1/2 kg Toor Dal, 1/2 kg Jaggery, 1/2 kg palm oil, wheat flour 250 gms ghee etc.
While announcing the decision, CM said that the government offered the gifts to see the happiness in the eyes of all poor and needy.
Ebullient after the party’s showing in Jharkhand, BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh today said it would be the turn of West Bengal next and advised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resign ‘rather than live in constant fear of losing power’.
“Neither am I an astrologer nor do I have control of CBI. But what can I do ? The acts of your (Banerjee’s) party leaders are such that they have to go jail. It was your party MP Kunal Ghosh who spilled the beans. In 2015 it will be Bhag Mukul Bhag. In 2016 it will be Bhag Mamata Bhag(run),” he told a meeting here.
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West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi has demanded declaring Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday on January 23 as a national holiday, saying proper “justice” had not been done to the great leader post-Independence.
I very strongly feel that justice was not done towards Netaji in the post-Independence period. He should have received much more honour, much more prestige than what was given to him, ” Tripathi said after paying his first customary visit to the Netaji Bhawan here.
Amid speculation that he may be named the chief ministerial candidate following his party’s splendid show in the Jharkhand Assembly polls, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Raghubar Das on Tuesday said that a final call in this regard would be taken by the party’s central leadership including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“I am grateful to the people of Jamshedpur for their love and support. I want to assure the people of Jharkhand that Raghubar Das will always be there at their service,” Das told the media here.
Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to mark individual brain cells to help improve our understanding of how the brain works.
The new marking technique, known as multicolour RGB tracking, allows single cells to be encoded with a heritable colour mark generated by a random combination of the three basic colours (red, green and blue).
After promising to bring out first job notification by January, the newly-formed Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPCS) is now aiming increase the criteria of age limi9t for Govt jobs.
The newly formed TSPCS aiming to bring recruitment reforms towards building a stronger system, there will be some major reforms in the recruitment process to benefit the aspirants. One of the proposals is to extend the upper age limit for state government jobs from 34 years to 40 years.
Hyderabad experienced a chilly whether onTuesday as the mercury plunged to 9.2 degree Celsius, the lowest since 2005. The Telangana government issued a cold wave warning in parts of the state, while according to India Meteorological Department, temperatures would continue to go down further over the next few days.
Meteorological Department (IMD) has attributed the cold wave conditions to cold dry northerly winds blowing into the Telangana state. It has forecast that temperature might further dip in the coming days.