Hyderabad, July 10: The classic Indian career choice of ‘doctor or engineer’ came in for scathing criticism from speakers at a seminar on new opportunities in management education here today. That limited perspective was preventing students from realising that there are now a vast number of lucrative opportunities in a whole array of new disciplines, they said.
Secundrabad, July 10: More women cops will stand guard for the upcoming Mahankali Bonalu Jatara. “The decision has been taken as security of women and children needs special attention,” city police commissioner AK Khan has said. The Secunderabad Bonalu is on August 1 and 2.
“A lot of women participate in this procession. Some of them will also be fasting. Hence it is important to make them feel safe and comfortable,” Khan said and advised women devotees not to wear expensive jewellery during the festivities as they might catch the attention of anti-social elements.
Hyderabad, July 10: On the lines of the BPS scheme to regularise unauthorised constructions, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) is introducing the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) for regularisation of illegal water supply/sewerage connections.
Hyderabad, July 10: The alleged rape of an American woman in Banjara Hills is giving sleepless nights to the police brass who have so far failed to crack the case even as pressure is building on them from the US Consulate.
Be that as it may, police commissioner A K Khan said giving “undue publicity” to this particular case was not proper as it was an `international’ issue and may affect the city’s reputation.
According to sources in the investigation, nearly 30 suspects have been questioned so far but no progress has been made.
Abuja, July 10: A man carrying bags containing more than 70 dead babies has been arrested in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos.
“We have started questioning the man and we have also invited the people he claimed were his accomplices but it appears to be a corruption case not human trafficking nor ritual, nor murder,” Lagos State Police Spokesman Frank Mba told PTI.
According to police, the man has told them that he was employed by the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to take the corpses to a cemetery. Police have asked some LUTH staff to appear for questioning.
Netherlands, July 10: FIFA fever on its peak as Spain will meet Netherlands in the World Cup final on Sunday. Fans of both teams are on their very much excited and doing every possible thing to grab the media glare.
After dare bare act by Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme, another sexy lady has made sensational promise for her Twitter followers if Nethelands lift the World Cup 2010 title on Sunday.
Washington, July 10: India’s 160 million Muslims are not terrorists and are tired of their community being defined as terrorists, asserts a top Indian-American official of the Obama Administration charged with reaching out to the community.
“I talk about the bloggers that I meet in India who are tired of Muslims being defined as terrorists,” Farah Pandith, US Special Representative to the Muslim Community, said in a web chat Friday.
Madras, July 10: Newly-wed India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his wife Sakshi were the centre of attraction at a felicitation organised by the Madras Cricket Club to honourChennai Super Kings (CSK) for winning this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
Dhoni was offered the honorary membership of the club, one of India’s oldest and which was formed in 1846.
Dhoni thus joined the likes of Indian cricketing greats like Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar, to name a few, who have been bestowed with the honorary membership of the club.
Madrid, July 10: All through the football World Cup, Colombian singer Shakira was the face of Africa but when it comes to Sunday’s final, the pop star will be cheering for Spain.
Shakira, who will be performing at the closing ceremony at Soccer City, is proud of her Hispanic origins and will be supporting the Spaniards against the Dutch.
“I have been enjoying the football World Cup like any other fanatic. And since I am a Hispanic, I will be rooting for Spain. They have been a great team and the kind of football they played this time has been pleasing to eyes,” Shakira said.
Japan, July 10: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travellers, will head for the stars once again in June 2012.
Williams, 44, would take over as station commander at the International Space Station that was her home in the sky from Dec 9, 2006 to June 22, 2007.
She will be joined on the Soyuz 31 flight to the space station by flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, the space agencies of the three nations announced Friday.
New Delhi, July 10: A city-based convent school has suspended six girl students of class X and XII for a week for allegedly using ‘abusive’ language on the social networking site Facebook.
After learning about the incident, the district education officer has ordered an enquiry into the incident.
However, it was not clear when the students were suspended.
New Delhi, July 10: Adrian Sutil will start the British Grand Prix 11th on the grid, four places ahead of teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi as none of the Force India drivers could make it to the third qualifying session (Q3) on Saturday.
Lone Indian driver Karun Chandhok qualified 23rd, sharing the last row with Hispania teammate Sakon Yamamoto.
For the fifth time this season, Red Bull locked the front row with Sebastian Vettel pipping teammate Mark Webber to snatch his second consecutive — overall fifth this year — pole.
Mumbai, July 10: Gold prices recovered smartly at the bullion market here today due to fresh buying by stockists and jewellers amidst firming trend in overseas markets.
Silver, also tracked the yellow metal to firm up on good demand from industrial users.
Standard gold (99.5 purity) rose by Rs 125 per ten grams to close at Rs 18,390 from yesterday’s closing level of Rs 18,265.
Pure gold (99.9 purity) also spurted by Rs 130 per 10 gram to end at Rs 18,480, as against Rs 18,350 previously.
Allahabad, July 10: Attacking BJP President Nitin Gadkari for his controversial remarks against Congress over the delay in hanging death row convict Afzal Guru, Samajwadi Party today said they could be expected only from someone who had lost his mental balance.
“It (Gadkari’s remark) was highly unfortunate. One can expect such utterances only from someone who has lost his mental equilibrium and not from the national president of a major political party” senior Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha member Kunwar Reoti Raman Singh told reporters here.
New Delhi, July 10: Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed with them the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister discussed with them the steps being taken by the Centre and the state government to bring back normalcy in the state.
The New and Renewable Energy Minister returned from abroad yesterday and is expected to attend the all-party meeting convened by his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Hyderabad, July 10: A total of 713 candidates are in fray for the July 27-bypoll to the 12 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.
After scrutiny today, there were 713 candidates whose nomination papers were found valid, state Chief Electoral Officer I B Subba Rao told reporters here.
The last date for withdrawal of nominations is July 12.
Among the political bigwigs contesting the polls is Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) President D Srinivas.
He is contesting from Nizamabad Urban Assembly constituency.
Chennai, July 10: Union Minister for IT and Communications A Raja today spoke on the varied ways in which Information Technology can provide the common man with easy access to healthcare.
Speaking after inaugurating the annual conference on ‘Indian Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery’ here, he said that telemedicine, which makes communication possible between doctors and patients located in remote areas, is of particular significance.
London, July 10: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has shed her glamorous image for her next movie “Salt”, as she says the role demanded a rough and tough look.
“Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that – she’s just Salt,” contactmusic.com quoted Jolie as saying.
“She doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. In fact, in many ways it’s the roughest I’ve looked because when you fight, it gets ugly and if someone breaks your nose it’s not pretty.”
New Delhi, July 10: Homeopathic medicines have been suggested to prevent swine flu by the The Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy.
At a meeting called by the department of AYUSH (Ayur Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy), methods for prevention of flu like illness was taken up by the members.
“The experts suggested that homeopathic medicine ‘Arsenicum album’ could be taken as preventive medicine against flu like illnesses including swine flu,” a health ministry official said.
New Delhi, July 10: Pointing out that the army has not been deployed in violence-hit Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Saturday he hoped to pull out the armed forces from “standby duties” next week.
“There has been no major incident since Friday” when the curfew was lifted to allow people to offer prayers at night on the occasion of Shab-e-Mehraj, Omar said in an interview to NDTV news channel in Srinagar.
Mumbai, July 10: Six new special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courts are likely to become functional in Maharashtra by the end of 2010, taking their total number in the state to 11, a top official said here Saturday.
“The CBI had sent a proposal for creation of additional courts of special judges to the government of India. The government has accepted the proposal,” said CBI Director Ashwani Kumar, while speaking at a three-day conference here.
New Delhi, July 10: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Saturday said Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy can dream and aspire for the chief minister’s post and that there is a method to it.
“Jagan is a young boy with a future. He needs proper advice. He can dream, aspire and try for the CM’s post but there is a method to get it,” Rosaiah said in an interview to NDTV.
“He could’ve waited for sometime and staked his claim,” he added.
Dharamsala, July 10: A week after National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon visited Beijing, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao held closed-door talks with the Dalai Lama here Saturday, with a Tibetan official saying “issues of common interest” were discussed.
The talks at the official palace of the Tibetan spiritual leader lasted about 90 minutes, said an official.
“At the closed-door meeting, high-ranking officials of the government-in-exile including its prime minister Samdhong Rinpoche participated,” added the official.
Johannesburg, July 10: All through the football World Cup, Colombian singer Shakira was the face of Africa but when it comes to Sunday’s final, the pop star will be cheering for Spain.
Shakira, who will be performing at the closing ceremony at Soccer City, is proud of her Hispanic origins and will be supporting the Spaniards against the Dutch.
“I have been enjoying the football World Cup like any other fanatic. And since I am a Hispanic, I will be rooting for Spain. They have been a great team and the kind of football they played this time has been pleasing to eyes,” Shakira said.
Sumir Kaul Srinagar, July 10: The army, which was deployed in certain parts of Srinagar four days ago to assist the civil administration, may be withdrawn from the streets early next week, according to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
He told PTI the state government was using the army in the “extreme periphery” and not not more than six or eight columns of the army were used so far.