Riyadh, July 07: A new study prepared by the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue (KACND) revealed on Monday that 35 percent of Saudis believes that non-Saudi residents do not have difficulties adapting to the local customs and traditions.
The study also showed that 45 percent of Saudis say they treat foreign residents with respect, honesty and fairness.
Hyderabad, July 07: In a strategic move aimed at keeping a safe distance from the raging Telangana storm, YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to throw the ball back into the Congress court. Having mulled over it for months, he has decided that the best way out is to fix the responsibility for the Telangana mess on the Congress.
Hyderabad, July 07: The Congress high command on Wednesday sent Telangana MPs home with yet more promises of talks, consultations, dialogue — and a decision soon on the separate state question. The only specific indication of the day came from Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who ruled out President’s rule in AP.
Tappal, July 07: A young man carrying a revolver was today detained while trying to move close to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his padayatra to Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.
The man with a .32 bore revolver was nabbed by the Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel in this village in Aligarh district when he was found nearing the second ring of the Congress leader’s security cordon.
Mumbai, July 07: They are finally heading to the altar! Actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza are are all set to tie the knot later this year.
While no official announcements have been made, but the two made it quite apparent about their relationship at a recent awards function in Toronto. Riteish and Genelia walked hand in hand at the red carpet of the award ceremony. Genelia’s mother who was present at the event looked at her daughter and future son-in-law proudly.
The two have never openly admitted about their romance and have maintained that they are ‘good friends’.
New Delhi, July 07: India’s Captain Cool, who brought home the prestigious World Cup trophy after a long 28 years, joined 30s club today. With the World Cup triumph and the IPL victory with the Chennai Super Kings, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had a remarkable year in 2011.
Since making his debut in December 2004, Dhoni has come a long way to become India’s most successful captain.
Patna, July 07: Away from swank colleges and intimidating fee structures, a number of Hindu students in Bihar are lining up at madrassas to pursue higher education, thanks to revamped courses, nominal fees and job opportunities in the Gulf.
“I will complete Alim (equivalent to graduation) degree course from a madrassa. It is affordable and will provide an opportunity to enrich my knowledge,” 19-year-old Sanjay, the son of a Hindu trader in Bettiah district, said.
Brussels, July 07: NATO says time is running out for Muammar Gaddafi as opposition forces advance, air strikes continue to inflict losses and regime officials flee.
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday the alliance had destroyed 2,700 “legitimate military targets” since the campaign began in March. This includes 600 tanks and artillery pieces and 800 ammunition stores.
Still, Fogh Rasmussen warns that Gaddafi’s forces remain a threat, saying that “without NATO there would be a massacre.”
Sanaa, Yemen: Yemeni security forces clashed with Islamist fighters near a southern town overrun by militants, leaving seven Islamists and a soldier dead, officials said, as tens of thousands staged rallies across Yemen calling for the president to step down.
Security across the impoverished nation in the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, home to an active al-Qaida branch, has largely collapsed since the uprising seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh broke out in February.
Washington, July 07: A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands, triggering a tsunami in the region, the US Geological Survey and the US Pacific Tsunami Center said on Wednesday.
The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.9, triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand, the Kermadec Islands and Tonga, the US Pacific Tsunami Center said.
“Sea level readings confirm that a tsunami was generated. This tsunami may have been destructive along coastlines of the region near the earthquake epicenter,” the US Pacific Tsunami Center said in its warning.
Kabul, July 07: A helicopter from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in eastern Afghanistan one day after an ISAF cargo plane crashed in the same area of the war-ravaged country.
The ISAF Joint Command said the helicopter went down Thursday morning in Parwan Province, Xinhua reported.
“There were no injuries and the crew has been recovered,” ISAF announced.
“What caused the aircraft to crash is under investigation; however, initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the incident,” it added.
Hyderabad, July 07: While we hear new versions each day about Aishwarya Rai’s sudden announcement of pregnancy and how her filmmakers have suffered because of it, here is putting a figure or call it an estimate to what Aishwarya Rai’s pregnancy has cost her producers.
According to Bollywood observers, Aishwarya’s pregnancy and the fact that she can’t do films for sometime has stalled work worth Rs.50 crore.
Asad Abad, July 07: Up to 33 police and five civilians were killed in fighting after Taliban crossed over from Pakistan and attacked a remote region in eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday.
Nuristan Provincial Governor Jamaluddin Badr said about 40 rebels also died in the two days of clashes that followed weeks of tit-for-tat allegations of cross-border attacks that have fanned diplomatic tensions.
But the Interior Ministry contradicted the toll and said 12 policemen had died and another five were wounded.
Hyderabad, July 07: Osmania University campus continued to remain on the boil for the second consecutive day on Wednesday after the rally taken out by the OU students turned violent with protestors pelting stones at the police and para-military forces, who retaliated by lobbing tear gas shells and stun grenades.
About six persons suffered injuries including a media person who was hit with a stone on his face due to which he collapsed and fell unconscious. Trouble started at around 11.30 a.m., when scores of students gathered at the Arts College to take out a rally to Gun Park.
Islamabad, July 07 A Pakistani commission investigating how Osama bin Laden lived undetected for years in the country has ordered the government not to repatriate his surviving family without its consent.
Pakistan took custody of the al-Qaeda leader’s two Saudi and one Yemeni widows and around 10 of their children, after US Navy Seals killed him and flew off with his body from the army town of Abbottabad on May 2.
New York, July 07: La Toya Jackson has sensationally claimed that her late ex-husband tried to sell her for $100,000 to former boxing champion Mike Tyson for sex
The Jackson sister appeared on US TV show ‘The Talk’ on Tuesday to promote her new book ‘Starting Over’, in which she discusses her turbulent marriage to Jack Gordon, her ex-husband and former manager.
La Toya, 55, accused Gordon of beating and threatening to kill her during their tumultuous marriage.
La Toya mentions the Tyson (right) incident in a new book she has written
Hyderabad, July 07: Pro-Telangana students clashed with police at Osmania University campus on Wednesday, the second day of the 48-hour bandh called by Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC).
Trouble started when the police stopped the students from undertaking a protest-march from the campus to Gun Park (Martyrs’ Memorial).
Students hurled stones at the police near the NCC Gate on the campus, and the latter responded by firing teargas shells. “The protesters are forcibly trying to defy the ban orders,” deputy commissioner of police (East Zone) Y Gangadhar said.
New Delhi, July 07: The Union Cabinet will meet today to discuss the Telangana statehood crisis in detail. The Congress Core Committee – which includes the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi – met last evening too and discussed the issue threadbare.
Hyderabad, July 07: Who would have thought that a strike in the state would cause a strike in the bedroom? The talk of the Telangana strike has been all over the news. Reportedly, members of parliament from the region in Andhra Pradesh have been exerting pressure on the central government to create a separate state.
In fact, the region has been on a lockdown for the past two days. But what is not known is that the strike has hindered Vidya Balan and Tusshar Kapoor from shooting their intimate scene for Ekta Kapoor’s Dirty Picture.
Mumbai, July 07: It is raining outside and Katrina Kaif says that on rainy days she feels like “cuddling up in bed and watching movies, or playing in the rain — what I don’t feel like doing is working!” Or worrying about a leaking flat. Like most Mumbaikars at this time of year, Katrina says, “My house is leaking very badly.
It is a seven-floor building and I live on the top floor. My living room has been leaking and I had to move all the furniture to one side and it makes me angry.”
Hyderabad, July 07: AICC general secretary and in-charge of party’s AP affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad has decided to skip his tour of Vijayawada scheduled on Friday in view of the political turmoil in the state. As per the original schedule finalised last month, Azad was to unveil the statue of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy near the police control room in the city during his day-long tour.
Hyderabad, July 07: The Anti-Corruption Bureau has found no evidence of corruption against the former CM, Mr K. Rosaiah, in the Maitrivanam land deal case. The ACB will be submitting its report to the court shortly.
Tehran, July 07: Former IRGC commander said on Wednesday that Muslim countries can dominate the world’s economy through strategic bottlenecks.
Major General Yahya Safavi stated that the Islamic countries are located on both sides of these strategic bottlenecks, which “we call unavoidable passages,” and that their superior geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic conditions have provided them with best opportunities.
“About 80 percent of the world’s trade is done through maritime navigation and the ships have to pass through these strategic bottlenecks,” he noted.
Hyderabad, July 07: Amid intense speculation as to how chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will overcome the latest T crisis triggered by resignations of ministers and MLAs, MIM President and MP Asaduddin Owaisi met him at his camp office in Begumpet on Wednesday.
Washington, July 07: An Oregon man has been arrested to face charges after he threatened to kill US President Barack Obama and the president’s family.
Darryl James Swanson made threats in phone calls to federal prosecutors’ offices in Oregon and Washington, a county government office in Florida, and the Associated Press, prosecutors said.
On May 2, he had called the AP bureau in Seattle, leaving a message that said he would seek weapons to shoot the president and his family.