shameen Amid Abu Jundal’s revelations about the involvement of Pakistani state agencies in 26/11, former minister and MP Shashi Tharoor says that there is “a systematic effort” to shield the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack but says “it is in our interest to have peace with Pakistan” because development was not possible with troubled borders.
The government has extended the ban on LTTE declaring that it continues to adopt a strong anti-India posture and pose a grave threat to the security of its citizens.
In a notification, the Home Ministry said the activities of LTTE are detrimental to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and there is a continuing strong need to control all such separatist activities by all possible means.
Hours before UPA meet on Vice Presidential election Saturday, Railway Minister Mukul Roy said the Trinamool Congress will clarify its stand “at an appropriate moment”.
“Our party will speak at an appropriate moment… There is no need for an individual to speak,” said Roy.
Roy is likely to represent Trinamool at the United Progressive Alliance meet to be held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence.
Twenty-eight-year-old Dev Luthra desired perfect six-pack abs before his marriage. An overdose of steroids promising to tone his physique in no time led to the swelling of his brain and, within months, the young company secretary was dead.
According to experts, an ever-increasing number of physique-conscious boys and men are taking anabolic steroids to buff their bodies for several reasons like an aspiration to join showbiz or, like Luthra, to impress the other sex.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is heading to the International Space Station once again.
Sunita, who is of Gujarati origin and the holder of the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, will take off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today along with flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
However, there is a lot of excitement and interest among the people in Gujarat as Sunita’s second mission to space nears.
Alzheimer’s- related changes begin to appear up to 25 years before the expected onset of the disease, a new study has claimed that may help pave way for early diagnosis and treatment of the brain disorder.
A team of scientists from Washington University School of Medicine studied 128 participants who had 50% chance of inheriting the disease.
The scientist suggested that the earliest sign of the changes, a drop in spinal fluid levels of the key ingredient of Alzheimer`s brain plaques, can be detected 25 years before the anticipated age of the disease’s onset.
Children breast fed for the first six months of their birth are 1.5 times more likely to develop a nut allergy than those exposed to other foods and fluids, says a study.
A joint project between the Australian National University (ANU) Medical School and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Directorate investigated a link between breast feeding and nut allergies.
Parents were asked to report if the child had a nut allergy, and on feeding habits in the first six months of life.
There is continued interest in the Hindi film world on when Salman Khan would get married but the Bollywood star is in no hurry and can`t understand why everyone is so curious about this.
Reacting to fellow actor Aamir Khan`s comment that it is high time Salman should enter wedlock, the 46-year-old said: “Aamir has been after me for this for a while now. I don`t understand why everyone is after me to get married?”
He was speaking at a promotional event of his upcoming action thriller `Ek Tha Tiger`.
There is continued interest in the Hindi film world on when Salman Khan would get married but the Bollywood star is in no hurry and can`t understand why everyone is so curious about this.
Reacting to fellow actor Aamir Khan`s comment that it is high time Salman should enter wedlock, the 46-year-old said: “Aamir has been after me for this for a while now. I don`t understand why everyone is after me to get married?”
He was speaking at a promotional event of his upcoming action thriller `Ek Tha Tiger`.
US-based Internet firm Yahoo has become the latest target for hackers as passwords of more than 453,000 site users have been compromised and posted online, reports claimed on Thursday.
The compromised server was part of “Yahoo!! Voice”, which was earlier known as Associated Content, a security firm has claimed.
The security firm also says that the passwords appear to have been obtained using a SQL injection attack to extract the information from Yahoo’s database servers.
Sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused in a games-related graft case, on Thursday sought a Delhi court`s permission to attend the 2012 Olympics in London.
In his plea to Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh, Kalmadi said he is a member of International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Council and sought permission to go to the United Kingdom for the games from July 26 to August 13.
Country’s largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday reported a 37.39 percent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 3,317.68 crore for the first three months of this financial year.
The company’s revenues rose 37.71 percent to Rs 14,868.71 crore in the first quarter of 2012-13 from Rs 10,797.02 crore in the year-ago period, TCS said in a filing to BSE.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 2,414.76 crore for the same quarter of the previous fiscal (2011-12).
Pulled down by contraction in the capital goods and mining sectors, industrial production recorded a dismal growth of 2.4 percent in May – slightly better than (-)0.9 percent in April – and may prompt the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates to boost growth.
“The IIP numbers remain weak but are better than previous month. Such growth rates, however, are not acceptable,” Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said while commenting on the industrial production data.
Strongly pitching for a “new pathway” to resolve all issues with India, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday said the two sides need to show flexibility and honour commitments made to each other having taken “baby steps” in improving their ties.
India and Pakistan require building their relationship on “trust” and that sincere efforts must be initiated to ensure that they are able to achieve the “results that we have not been able to achieve so far,” Khar told a news agency on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit here.
The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was handed professionally by India and Pakistan and indicated progress in the relations between the neighbours, prominent Pakistani newspapers said on Thursday.
The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was “accomplished with a minimum of fuss and stuffy protocol”, said The News International while Dawn said the incident pointed to “some progress” in the ties between the two countries.
Pakistan President on Thursday signed into law a bill aimed at giving blanket immunity to top government leaders from contempt of court proceedings and countering the Supreme Court’s efforts to pressure the Premier to revive graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Zardari gave his assent to the Contempt of Court Bill of 2012 after it was passed by the Senate and the National Assembly, the two houses of Parliament.
Britain’s intelligence and security committee says the country’s spy agencies are under strain as they face a critical challenge from the London Olympics.
The panel of nine lawmakers said on Thursday in its annual report that domestic spy service MI5 had come under “significant pressure” as it attempts to neutralise threats from al Qaeda linked groups or Irish Republican dissidents and take on a key role in security checks for Olympic accreditations.
Chairman Malcolm Rifkind says the committee believes al Qaeda and affiliates continue to threaten Britain.
Tajikistan wants Moscow to pay at least $250 million a year for the Russian military base deployed in the Central Asian state, Kommersant business daily reported Thursday, citing an unnamed Tajik source.
The Russian military base in Tajikistan was opened in 2004 and is Russia’s largest base for ground forces abroad with up to 7,000 military servicemen stationed there. The base’s presence in Tajikistan expires in 2014, according to existing agreements.
Pakistan on Thursday said it was in the process of “confirming” new dates for the much-anticipated visit of External Affairs Minister SM Krishna to Islamabad and hoped the two countries will be able to achieve “some milestones” during his trip.
India has proposed September 7-9 as possible dates for Krishna’s visit to Pakistan after he had to defer his earlier scheduled July 18-19 trip due to the Presidential elections and upcoming session of Parliament.
Amid talks that Narendra Modi could be BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate in 2014, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha feels the party should project anybody for the top post only after considering whether it would benefit the poll prospects.
Sinha is of the opinion that it is not necessary to project anybody as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate as done so in the past but could decide on it if and when it is in a position to form the next government.
Gandhi scion and young Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is undoubtedly the biggest youth icon and the most sought after groom in the country. And what further proves this point is an interesting proposal made by a woman who claims that she will give Rs 15 crore as dowry if the young leader marries her daughter.
According to a popular tabloid Mid Day, which first reported this interesting incident, the woman – Om Shanti Sharma – has been sitting on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar since July 9, and has taken a vow of silence.
Almond Spice Sandwich is an instant recipe to satisfy your hunger.
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup Almond Butter
• 1 tbsp Honey
• 1 tsp Cinnamon (Ground)
• 4 tbsp Almonds (Sliced)
• 4 tbsp Raisins
• 8 slices Whole Grain Bread
Method
• Mix almond butter, honey and cinnamon in a bowl.
• In a slice of bread, spread two tablespoons of almond butter mixture.
• Over it sprinkle one tablespoon of sliced almonds and one tablespoon of raisins.
• Top it with the other slice of bread.
More than one million Afghans, aged 15 to 64, are suffering from drug addiction, an official said Wednesday.
The causes of drug addiction are poverty, illiteracy, conflicts, migrations, illusions about drugs and unemployment, Xinhua quoted Mohammad Tahir Sultani, head of a drug addicts` hospital, as saying.
He was speaking to reporters following the launch of a campaign against drug use by the Afghan ministries of public health, counter-narcotics and interior affairs.
If you stand next to someone smoking at a bus stop, there are fair chances that you`ll be exposed to fine particulate pollution nearly 16 times higher than the background level, says a study.
The study conducted by the University of Otago, New Zealand, has found that smoking on city street footpaths increases the amount of dangerous fine particulates many times in the air.
The five-week-long study used a sensitive air monitor to measure air quality at a shopping centre as they passed 284 people who were smoking on the footpaths, the journal Health & Place reports.
Indian film movement today is much more vibrant than ever with young directors playing a significant role in infusing a modern sensibility into cinema, feels veteran Shyam Benegal.
“My criticism of popular Indian Cinema before I became a filmmaker was that it neither created a credible reality nor did it reflect any of the complexity of Indian culture or society. However, I have revised my views considerably since then,” Benegal said while delivering the 10th Dada Saheb Palke Memorial Lecture here last night.