salman_jobs Aziz Qureshi will be sworn-in as the new Governor of Mizoram on Friday, state Protocol Officer David L Pachuau said today.
The decision was made at the meeting of senior officials chaired by the state Chief Secretary Lalmalsawma, Pachuau
said.
Qureshi, transferred to Mizoram from Uttarakhand on December 30, will arrive here on Thursday, he said.
PTI
A delegation of 150 Canadians is expected in Ahmedabad next week to participate in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Jan 7-9) and Vibrant Gujarat (Jan 10-12) summit.
“The government of Canada is proud to participate in the 7th Vibrant Gujarat Summit,” said Chris Alexander, Canada’s citizenship and immigration minister and head of the Canadian delegation. “This summit allows us to further strengthen ties between Canada and India by highlighting business opportunities, sharing experiences and trading ideas.”
Actress Sienna Miller says that becoming a mother for the first time “changed everything” for her.
Miller gave birth to daughter Marlowe, her first child with fiance Tom Sturridge, back in the summer of 2012.
“I think having a baby really changed everything, if I’m honest. I think that’s where it began. The stakes are higher. You have someone that you want to be proud of you eventually.
A clash between Afghan security forces and the Taliban left at least 15 militants and a security personnel dead, and seven others injured in Ghazni province Sunday, an official said.
“Security forces launched cleanup operations in Gadakhil area of Muqar district to stabilise security on Kabul-Kandahar highway and killed 15 militants,” Shafiq Nang, spokesman for Ghazni’s provincial government, told Xinhua.
Five militants and two security personnel sustained injuries. The rest of the militants fled leaving 15 bodies behind.
IANS
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday courted another controversy Sunday by supporting the Maoists’ levy from contractors and businessmen.
“There is nothing wrong if Maoists are demanding levy from contractors engaged in construction of roads,bridge and building and businessmen,” he said.
BJP MP and Union Minister VK Singh has expressed concern over any incidence of swine flu in his constituency even as he urged that all precautionary measures should be available in the district hospital to deal with any eventualities in this regard.
Singh on Friday held detailed discussions with District Magistrate Vimal Kumar Sharma and Chief Medical Officer Dr Ajay Aggarwal on the matter.
The Ghaziabad MP, a former Army chief, said that a disease like swine flu must be taken seriously to prevent it from spreading across the district.
A whopping 63 million people are faced with poverty every year due to “catastrophic” expenditure over healthcare which neutralises the gains of rising income and various government schemes aimed to reduce poverty, according to the Health Ministry.
The draft of National Health Policy cites this as a significant reason for a new health charter as it seeks to ensure universal access to affordable health care.
With jaundice spreading in western Odisha town of Sambalpur, Koraput district administration has initiated precautionary measures to check possible outbreak of waterborne diseases.
“Everyday we are collecting 10 water samples to examine presence of germs in them which could lead to outbreak of waterborne diseases,” additional district medical officer (ADMO), Koraput, Arun Kumar Padhi, said.
“No germ was found in any of the water samples tested so far,” he said
Researchers have patented a drug that could produce some of ecstasy’s euphoric effects and at the same time limit the amount of alcohol people drink.
The compound was created by the drug designer behind mephedrone, a now widely banned substance that has caused at least one death and been implicated in 13 others in the UK.
The man, referred to by his pseudonym, Dr Z, initially intended his creation to be sold as a legal high, ‘New Scientist’ reported.
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress Sunday indicated it might move the Supreme Court against the “misuse” of the CBI by the central government in the Saradha scam probe to “settle political scores” with the party.
“Nothing has been finalised yet. Yes, moving the Supreme Court is definitely an option before us. The centre is using the CBI to settle political scores with us. We can knock on the doors of the apex court,” a minister and Trinamool leader told IANS on condition of anonymity.
Pakistani security forces foiled a major terror bid in Balochistan’s Sibi city by defusing a roadside bomb Sunday, the day Eid Milad-un-Nabi was being celebrated across the country, media reported.
Frontier Corps (FC) personnel Sunday evening defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a motorcycle parked by the road where a procession in connection with Eid Milad-un-Nabi was scheduled to pass, Dawn online reported.
Sources in FC told the newspaper that militants had planted four kg of explosives in the motorcycle to target the procession.
The Congress and some other parties will Monday file a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the Rajasthan government’s ordinance on educational qualification for contesting panchayat polls, Congress leader Sachin Pilot said Sunday.
The panchayat election will be held from Jan 16 and counting will be held Feb 5.
A session on Computational Electronics on the second day of the 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) here today received an encouraging response from students.
Haiwon Lee, president of Korea Nanotechnology Research Society spoke of ‘Talent mobility and global research networking in science and technology’.
“Are the crisis of today confined within a single country or region” he said, pointing towards a statement made by Hillary Clinton on science diplomacy and global partnership.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has set a taken a New Year resolution to read a book every two weeks this year wherein he has created a page on the social media website “A Year of Books” inviting 30 million users to like the page.
The reason why Zuckerberg started this page is because he believes that books are “intellectually fulfilling”, reported the Verge.
He said that books allow people to go deeper inside a topic to explore it as compared to most media today.
So far, around 50,000 people have signed up to read “The End of Power” by Moises Naim.
ANI
Quadrantid meteor shower will make this weekend’s night sky sparkle, making it the first meteor shower of 2015.
Quadrantid meteor got its name from a constellation named Quadrans Muralis, the Wall Quadrant, which was incorporated into the constellation Bootes in 1922, CBS News reported.
While the Quadrantid meteor shower can produce as many bright meteors during its peak as the more famous Perseids, the shower’s actual peak time is much narrower, making the chances of seeing a Quadrantid much less than those of seeing a Perseid.
The US space agency is planning to test inflatable spacecraft technology for future missions to Red Planet.
For this, NASA scientists are considering to use a blow-up heat shield which resembles stacking ring of doughnuts that young children play with, Daily Mail reported.
To begin with, the scientists aim to test how inflatable technology performs upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
According to the team, a lightweight, inflatable heat shield could help a future spacecraft slow down enough to enter Mars’ atmosphere at ease.
An elderly couple was Sunday found battered to death inside their house here, police said.
The bodies of Harish Chandra Agarwal and his wife Lalita Devi, both 70 years old, were found around noon in their house in Kammu Tola area. Police said a five kg weight was used to hit the two on their heads.
Agarwal was a wholesale cloth merchant. His two sons are settled in Surat, Gujarat.
Jewellery, cash and other valuables were missing from the house. A dog squad searched the house but found no clues.
A senior Taliban commander, wanted in connection with an assassination bid on Malala Yousufzai’s life, has been found using networking site LinkedIn, listing his skills as “jihad and journalism”.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, one of the world’s most notorious terrorist leaders, has 69 connections on LinkedIn, indicating a sizable network.
Ehsan does not hide his associations and openly promotes himself on LinkedIn as spokesman for the Jammat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of the Taliban, The Telegraph reported.
Extreme bad weather was the “triggering factor” behind the AirAsia plane crash with icing likely causing engine damage, Indonesia’s meteorological agency has said in the first official word on the possible reasons for the horrific incident.
“Based on the available data received on the location of the aircraft’s last contact, the weather was the triggering factor behind the accident,” an initial report on the website of Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.
China on Sunday launched a website to facilitate defence procurement for the world’s largest army to bring transparency amid an anti-graft crackdown at the top echelons of the 2.3 million-strong People’s Liberation Army.
PLA, which is currently undergoing massive modernisation, handling annual budget of over USD 132 billion, launched the website through its General Armament Department.
The website provides all information on the country’s weapon and armament needs, relevant policies, procurement notices, enterprise lists and technology.
China on Sunday launched a website to facilitate defence procurement for the world’s largest army to bring transparency amid an anti-graft crackdown at the top echelons of the 2.3 million-strong People’s Liberation Army.
PLA, which is currently undergoing massive modernisation, handling annual budget of over USD 132 billion, launched the website through its General Armament Department.
The website provides all information on the country’s weapon and armament needs, relevant policies, procurement notices, enterprise lists and technology.
Twenty-five crew members of a Singapore-registered 51,000-tonne cargo vessel were rescued safely after the vessel ran aground off the Isle of Wight, British Coastguard said on Sunday.
The cargo ship Hoegh Osaka became grounded on Bramble Bank in the Solent, near the Isle of Wight, at around 9.20pm last night and began listing to one side at 45 degrees, official sources said.
Thousands of passengers faced delays of over an hour at UK’s Stansted Airport after an unusual security blunder caused chaos in the departure lounge.
A Ryanair plane from Lisbon, Portugal unloaded its passengers at a departure gate instead of one set aside for arrivals.
This meant the arriving passengers passed straight into the departure lounge, mixing with people waiting to catch their flights.
Airport procedure meant that everyone in the departure lounge had to leave and go through security again, causing long queues.
Pakistan government’s appeal against the bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, will be heard by a court here on Tuesday, a court official said on Sunday.
“The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has fixed January 6 for hearing of the government’s plea against Lakhvi’s bail on its request. A division bench has been constituted to take up the matter,” the official told PTI.
He said the government had requested the IHC to consider the matter “urgent” and fix the date of hearing at earliest.
All rallies and processions have been banned in the Bangladeshi capital city in the light of simmering political tensions between the opposition and ruling parties, a media report said Sunday.
The step was taken to curb spiralling tensions between supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the ruling Awami League (AL) ahead of the first anniversary of last year’s controversial general elections held Jan 5, bdnews24.com reported.
The BNP-led opposition alliance had boycotted the general elections and has been pressing for fresh elections since then.