wajid New Delhi ,January 10 :AS MANY as 254 Border Security Force ( BSF) men, who guard our sensitive frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh, committed suicide in the past eight years because of high occupational stress.
This has been revealed by a report prepared by the Bureau of Police Research and Development ( BPR& D), under the aegis of the home ministry.
New Delhi,January 10: India has the highest number of stunted children in the world. Almost 42 per cent of the children in the country numbering over 61 million are malnourished and stunted according to the Hunger and Malnutrition Report released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The report says that one in three malnourished children in the world is an Indian.
Hyderabad, January 10 :There are more revelations coming to light about the home grown tulsi plant’s medicinal values. In a recent research conducted by scientists at DRDO’s (Defence Research Development Organization) Institute of Nuclear Medicines and Allied Sciences and Department of Radiobiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, the scientists have successfully tested tulsi extracts on mice for its anti-radiation and anti-cancer properties. The DRDO is spending Rs.7 crore on the tulsi project.
Bangalore, January 10: INDIA along with other developing economies will be ‘ less affected’ by the global financial crisis, said legendary US investor George Soros on Monday and warned that the European crisis may lead to an economic ‘ meltdown worse than 2008’. “ The financial crisis will largely hit Europe and the developed countries ( this time). There has been a rise of the developing economies and they have seen a tremendous shift. So, the developing economies would be less affected,” said Soros, adding that the rate of growth may decline in these economies.
Lahore,January 10 :At least three young girls were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede after a concert by singer Atif Aslam at an arts complex in Lahore on Monday, officials said.
A large number of students of the Punjab College of Commerce had come to witness the concert at Alhamra Cultural Complex.
The stampede occurred when private security guards used batons to push back a group of girls who rushed towards Aslam to get his autograph, police said.
New Delhi,January 10:Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare is likely to announce on Tuesday that his team will campaign for a strong lokpal bill in four of the five states bound for assembly elections in the coming weeks but will not name any political party.
The states where Team Anna is planning to campaign
are Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa. The fifth state, Manipur, has been left out.
A decision to this effect was taken by Team Anna’s core committee, which met here on Monday to discuss the next course of action.
jaipur,January 09 :Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today parried a question by a delegate at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on why his “attitude towards minorities” does not change though he talks of achieving inclusive growth in his state.
“Vayalar (Ravi) ji will answer (the question),” Modi merely said when the delegate posed the query to him.
Intervening, Ravi said, “This is not the platform to ask questions on leaders. Please restrict your questions to the issues like investments.”
Jaipur, January 08: Fulfilling the long-standing demand of its diaspora, India Sunday said it would allow Non-resident Indians (NRIs) to vote and participate in the election process.
“Pursuant to the law that was enacted to enable Non-resident Indians to vote in our national elections, the government has issued notifications for registration of overseas electors under the Representation of People Act, 1950,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
Hyderabad, January 08: YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s aide and party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu Sunday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the Emaar-APIIC township scam.Rambabu, who was chairman of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) from 2005 to 2007, appeared before CBI officials at Dilkusha guest house.
The CBI has summoned him under section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code to record his statement.
Jammu, January 08: Moved by the plight of her remote village in Jammu and Kashmir state, a Kashmiri woman born and brought up in Dubai relinquished what could have been a lucrative career and opened a school there to usher in “change”.
Sabbah Haji was born in Dubai in 1982 where her father was a manager in a shipping company. In 1997, her family shifted to Bangalore, from where Haji did her B.Com and nursed dreams of becoming a chartered accountant.
Mumbai, January 08: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Sunday attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi by raking up her foreign origin and also questioned party general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s prime ministerial ambitions.Thackeray said that for every little thing, there are controversies in the country. “The country’s reputation is lost in all this”, he said in an interview to party mouthpiece Saamna published Sunday.
“The question of Sonia’s reputation does not arise because she is a foreigner. What love will she have for this country and what is her contribution here,” Thackeray asked.
Kolkata/New Delhi, January 07 : In an indication that all is not well within the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday threw an open challenge to partner Congress to walk out of the combine.
This is the first time Banerjee has spoken so bitterly and openly against the Congress after the ties between the two parties — allies in the central and state governments — worsened in recent months over various issues.
Chandigarh, January 07: Upset over being denied a Congress ticket for the Jan 30 state assembly polls, Malwinder Singh, the younger brother of Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh, Saturday quit the party and joined the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal.
Malwinder Singh, who openly opposed the Congress allotting a poll ticket for the Samana assembly seat to Amarinder Singh’s son Raninder Singh, was welcomed into the Akali Dal fold by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is also the deputy chief minister.
Jodhpur, January 07 :Forensic teams Saturday recovered some more items from a crater and a canal near here, suspecting to be belonging to missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, sources said. Meanwhile, a local court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a Congress legislator’s sister, who is absconding and named in the case.
Indra Bishnoi is the sister of Congress legislator from Luni constituency Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, who has been arrested in the case.
New Delhi,January 07 :The Supreme Court on Friday asked dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to stand trial three-and-a-half years after the murder of their daughter, Aarushi. The court dismissed Nupur’s plea to quash the trial court order, summoning them as accused in the case. Now, the Talwars will also be
New York, January 07: The New York man, facing hate crime charges for attacking an Islamic centre and a Hindu temple, went about throwing molotov cocktails at the places as he “hated all Muslims and Arabs” for trying to take over his life and wanted to inflict the maximum damage to them.
Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on hate crime and arson charges.
He told police authorities that he attacked the centres over the weekend as he believed Muslims were trying to take over his life.
Kabul, January 06 : The elusive Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who had called on his warriors last November to continue the war against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, has now confirmed having opened peace talks with the US authorities, Geo News reported.
The one-eyed Omar, who has escaped the US manhunt since his regime was ousted in late 2001, made two demands — release of Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo Bay detention facility and complete pullout of US-led forces from Afghanistan, the report added.
New Delhi, January 06: In one of the biggest crackdowns on drunken driving in the last few years, more than 18,000 drivers were prosecuted and nearly 3,000 jailed in 2011, Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said Friday.
Addressing the annual press conference of Delhi Police, Gupta said that “18,073 people were prosecuted in 2011 whereas the figure was 11,388 in 2010.”
“Driving licenses of 2,212 people were suspended and 2,960 offenders were imprisoned,” he added.
According to Gupta, the prosecutions were an “all time high”.
New Delhi, January 06: Every fifth murder in the capital is sexually motivated, Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said Friday.
Addressing the annual press conference of the Delhi Police, Gupta said: “According to the latest data, 18 percent of murders in Delhi are sex-related. Other prominent reasons for murders are sudden provocation and crime-related.”
According to Gupta, family disputes were found to be behind only nine percent of murders. Enmity and disputes were the other chief motives during 2011.
New Delhi, January 06: CONGRESS General Secretary Digvijaya Singh was on Thursday dragged into a controversy following the publication of a photograph of his in a vernacular newspaper that showed him sharing the dais with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders at a Hindu meet.
The RSS was quick to go on the offensive as it alleged Singh — a vocal critic of the saffron outfit — of practising vote- bank and communal politics.
Bangalore, January 06: SIX ACTIVISTS of the right- wing Sri Ram Sene, who had planned to spark communal violence in the north Karnataka town of Sindhagi by hoisting the Pakistani flag on the mini Vidhan Soudha premises, are now lodged behind bars.
Interestingly, all the accused had staged demonstrations in the town the very next day to protest the delay in arresting those responsible for the reprehensible act. They also tried to manhandle Bijapur district SP D. C. Rajappa and other officers when they visited the spot.
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), January 06 : A single bamboo stick holds the thatched roof together, the discoloured floor serves as both bench and chair, the kids sit in neat rows and a man sits on a printed mattress. It is from humble rooms like this that a quiet education revolution is unravelling in this eastern Uttar Pradesh district that was associated in public memory not long ago for alleged involvement of some of its youth in extremist activities.
Lucknow,January 06 :The induction of tainted former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha today continued to create tension within the BJP, which attracted more controversy by giving a ticket for the Assembly elections to a former MP who was expelled from the Rajya Sabha over the cash-for-query scam.
Chhatrapal Singh, who was caught taking Rs 15,000 in a sting operation to ask questions in the Rajya Sabha, has been given the BJP ticket to contest from Anupshahr in western UP.
Beijing,January 06 :A Chinese student has extracted pure gold from scrap CPUs, earning him the title ‘modern alchemist’.
Li Dianwu, a chemistry senior at Nankai University in Tianjin in north China, dissolved useless CPUs in a solution of sulfuric acid, thiourea and hydrogen peroxide, and filtered the solution with activated carbon.
Then he put the metal-filled activated carbon in a muffle furnace and extracted 65 milligrams of gold at a temperature of 1,100 degrees Celsius, the Shanghai Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Beijing,January 06 :A Chinese student has extracted pure gold from scrap CPUs, earning him the title ‘modern alchemist’.
Li Dianwu, a chemistry senior at Nankai University in Tianjin in north China, dissolved useless CPUs in a solution of sulfuric acid, thiourea and hydrogen peroxide, and filtered the solution with activated carbon.
Then he put the metal-filled activated carbon in a muffle furnace and extracted 65 milligrams of gold at a temperature of 1,100 degrees Celsius, the Shanghai Morning Post reported Wednesday.