Mumbai, January 05: With Bajaj announcing it is pulling out of the scooter space to focus on motorcycles, TVS Motors is perhaps the first to seize the opportunity headlong with its hybrid three-wheeler that runs on petrol, CNG and an electric battery.
The vehicle, incidentally, is already proving to be a huge hit as it ferries visitors around the sprawling Pragati Maidan complex where Auto Expo 2010 is being held.
Bhopal, January 05: (Pervez Bari) Two dozen students of different Universities of the United States of America visited the Aligarh Muslim University, (AMU), Aligarh and met the Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis at his residence.
According to Dr. Rahat Abrar, AMU’s Public Relations Officer, the American students visited the heritage buildings of the University and paid tribute to the founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. The visiting team also interacted with the students and staff of the Department of Urdu and English at Arts Faculty lounge.
New Delhi, January 05: Hundreds of passengers were stranded in chilly weather at New Delhi Railway Station Tuesday as several trains were delayed for hours following fog in various parts of noth India.
As many as 25 trains to Delhi were delayed due to dense fog, spokesperson of Northern Railways Anant Swarup said.
‘We have cancelled six trains and have rescheduled three due to inclement weather in northern India,’ he said.
The trains rescheduled are Bhopal Shatabdi, Kashi Vishwanath Express and Neelanchal Express.
—IANS
Chandigarh, January 05: A consumer forum has ordered a private hospital here to pay a compensation of nearly Rs.18 lakh to a former patient for deficiency in services, an official said Tuesday.
The district consumer disputes redressal forum has directed Inscol hospital, located in Sector 34, to pay the compensation money to Inderjit Arora, a resident of Manimajra town near here.
Kathmandu, January 05: Nepal’s decision to ban the export of sand, boulders and crushed stone to prevent environmental degradation is going to hit hard India’s booming construction industry, especially in the Terai plains close to the Nepal border.
A parliamentary panel on natural resources Monday directed the coalition government to immediately stop the export of sand and stone to India after growing concern that the depletion was making the region environmentally fragile.
The sand and stone were primarily exported from Nepal’s Terai plains and the Chure-Bhawar region.
New Delhi, January 05: An increasing number of computer professionals in and around the national capital have become victims of weak backs and shoulders, a problem that doctors believe has multiplied recently.
“Gurgaon is an IT hub and the problem is definitely severe here. I have seen a nearly 10 fold increase in the number of shoulder and back ache patients. They are falling flat on weak shoulders,” said I.P.S. Oberoi, a senior orthopaedics doctor at the Artemis Health Institute in Gurgaon.
Ghaziabad, January 05: A local court Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her house in 2008, after it found “no reason for not granting the permission”.
“After looking at CBI’s plea, we do not see any reason for not granting the permission to conduct the narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar,” the court order reads.
Mumbai, January 05: Bollywood star Salman Khan is promoting his forthcoming film “Veer” in a new way – he is meeting children and encouraging them to be confident and brave.
Salman’s love for kids was seen on Sunday at Jamnabai School where 19 schools had participated in an event called Cascade.
“Salman had gone to boost confidence of the kids and told them that there is a ‘veer’ in you which gives you the confidence to come up on the stage and talk. Salman also distributed music CDs and danced with the kids. He gave autograph to each and every kid before leaving,” said a source.
New Delhi, January 05: Kolkata Knight Riders have swapped all-rounder Moises Henriques for Delhi Daredevils batsmen Owais Shah and Manoj Tiwary in the trade window made available by the Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council before the player auctions scheduled for January 19.
Mumbai, January 05: Leading choreographer Ahmed Khan hasn’t directed a film for a while now.
His last [directorial] venture FOOL & FINAL opened a few years ago and his next venture, Paathshaala, produced by his company, opens worldwide on 9th April. Ahmed is now gearing up to start his new venture, which, according to sources, will star Ahmed’s buddy Shahid Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in lead roles.
Hyderabad, January 05: Carry lots of food and water if you are taking a train passing through Andhra Pradesh. This is what authorities are saying in view of the unending rail blockades in the state.
Transport services across Andhra Pradesh have again been hit as supporters and opponents of a separate Telangana state stopped trains and buses.
Washington, January 05: Obesity is no less injurious to health than smoking, says a recent study.
Researchers from Columbia University and The City College of New York calculate that the Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost due to obesity is now equal to, if not greater than, those lost due to smoking, both modifiable risk factors.
QALYs use preference-based measurements of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) which allow a person to state a relative preference for a given health outcome.
Los Angeles, January 05:When “Heartbreak Hotel” became Elvis Presley’s first number one hit in the spring of 1956, the US was still racially segregated in many areas and crooner Frank Sinatra was its biggest star.
The country was in the midst of a post war boom that put money in kids’ pockets to buy records while the spread of television and portable radios was creating a new media age. 21 years later, when Elvis died aged 42 in 1977, he had done as much as anyone to dramatically change the world’s strongest military, economic and cultural superpower.
New Delhi, January 05: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s daughter Upinder Singh was one of the recipients of the inaugural Infosys Prize who were felicitated at a function, attended by Singh as well, here on Monday. Vice-President Hamid Ansari was the chief guest.
Instituted by Infosys, the prize “seeks to boost confidence of scientists, doctors, social scientists and other researchers already engaged in exemplary work, for despite a number of stellar achievements in recent times, research carried out in India in pure and applied sciences has not been given its due”.
Aizawl, January 05: Security forces in Mizoram have busted a fake currency racket and arrested three people, including a woman, police said here Tuesday.
Mizoram police and troopers of the Border Security Force in a joint operation uncovered the racket at Vairengte near the Assam-Mizoram border on Saturday, said Aizawl district police chief Lalbiakthanga Khiangte.
The security forces seized fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs.164,000 along with a laptop, computers, printer, scanner, silk screen developer, different coloured solutions, inks, and reams of court stamp paper.
Amritsar, January 05: The Border Security Force has foiled the attempt made by Pakistani intruder, who was trying to cross into the Indian Territory, was shot dead by the Jawans at Rajatal Post in Attari sector in Amritsar district last night.
Initially the Jawans tried him to stop, but he avoided and made effort to flee, which forced officials to shot him dead. The officials have recovered Rs 20 lakh fake currency and five and half kg heroin worth more than Rs 27 crore from the spot.
–Agencies
Mumbai, January 05: Rohan Sippy’s gritty hard-hitting Traffic-inspired film on the drug racket in Goa has finally found a second hero. After being offered to Farhan Akhtar and Emran Hashmi the role has finally gone to the Telugu star-on-the-rise Rana Dagubatti who made his acting debut in Telugu with the hard-hitting political thriller Leader.
Mumbai, January 05: Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan, who has been married for over four years, dressed up as a groom again and led a marriage procession, but this time to promote his upcoming film “Dulha Mil Gaya”.
The actor got on a chariot and came to a shopping mall here Sunday along with other cast members including Johnny Lever, Suchitra Pillai, Tara Sharma and debutant Mohit Chadda. The procession started from Lokhandwala and continued to the mall located in Oshiwara.
The procession was welcomed with much fanfare and Fardeen met his on-screen bride Ishitta Sharrma.
New delhi,January 05:Mr chidabaram also hinted that centre has not taken a hasty decision on telangana and all parties have to have a consenses on telangana
The home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, on Tuesday appealed to political parties in Andhra Pradesh to help the central government find a solution to the Telangana issue and made a subtle hints that Maoists would be happy if they fail to find a solution. He said the agenda is to “deliberate on the mechanism and lay down a road map for the consultations”.
Vijayawada, January 05: The Railway police along with local police today arrested the leaders of Joint Action Committee (JAC) for detaining three Express trains at Vijayawada Railway Station for more than one hour.
The JAC comprising students and political leaders of 13 districts of Andhra and Rayalaseema Regions had given a call for ”Rail Roko” on Saturday last to exert pressure on the Centre for United Andhra Pradesh, coinciding with the eight-party meeting convened by Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram on the Telangana issue in New Delhi today.
Mumbai, January 05: While celebrities like Kareena Kapoor and Eesha Koppikar swear by power yoga and Taekwondo to keep fit respectively, one film old actress Sonal Sehgal prefers kick boxing.
She has been training for the past one year. Though most people take to kick boxing for self defence, Sonal practises it as part of her daily fitness regime and trains every day for an hour.
“It’s a sport that not only works every muscle in your body, but also toughens your mind. After a one hour workout, I’m bursting with energy and feel ready to take on the world,” she said.
Bhubaneswar, January 05: The cold wave abated slightly in Orissa Tuesday with the mercury rising across the state, an official said.
The minimum temperature rose to seven degrees Celsius in Phulbani town of Kandhamal district after recording the season’s lowest of four degrees Sunday. Cold wave conditions had prevailed in the state for much of last week.
“The rise in minimum temperature is mainly due to increase in moisture content in the atmosphere,” Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre director S.C. Sahu told IANS.
London, January 05: The funding crisis that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s party faces could threaten its campaign in the upcoming elections, a new report says.
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary from the Labor party, said the party was going into the election at a greater financial disadvantage than any time since 1983, when the Labor party suffered a landslide defeat.
“We are trying to be careful so we don’t end up bankrupt after the election if this all goes pear-shaped,” Blunkett told The Times newspaper.
Mosul, January 05: At least fifteen people have obtained injuries in two separate bombing attacks across Iraq’s third largest city, Mosul.
In an incident on Monday, five civilians were wounded as a thermal bomb exploded in close proximity to a police patrol vehicle on al-Nujaifi Street in the center of the conflict-plagued city.
“No patrolmen were wounded in the blast,” a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on condition of anonymity.
Washington, January 05: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says insecurity in Yemen is a regional and global threat, as the White House prepares the ground for a new war in the region.
“The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability,” Clinton told reporters following talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani on Monday.
“And certainly, we know that this is a difficult set of challenges, but they have to be addressed,” she added.