Mumbai, January 25: In yet another case of child abuse, a six-year-old girl was rescued on Monday night from near the railway tracks at Mahim station where she was dumped after being raped. However, moments before the child fell unconscious, she whispered the identity of her tormentor into her mother’s ear.
Washington, January 25: Solar radiation from a massive sun storm – the largest in nearly a decade – collided with the Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and sky watchers to seek out spectacular light displays.
US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted flight routes for transpolar journeys between Asia and the United States to avoid problems caused by the radiation storm, a spokesman said.
Hyderabad, January 25: Chairman National minority commission Mr. Wajahat Habeebullah, on the request of PCC general secretary Abid Rasool Khan, sent a letter to union ministry of minority affairs and planning commission to include Muslim concentrated districts Hyderabad, Kurnool and Kadapa in the list of Prime Ministers 15 point programme.
The list of Padma Award recipients for the year 2012 have been published. Also, sources from PMO have stated that the Bharat Ratna will not be awarded this year. The awards, which happen to be the country’s highest civilian awards, are announced on the occasion of the Republic Day each year. They will be conferred by the President of India at a function in Rashtrapathi Bhavan in March/ April.
Hyderabad, January 25: Urdu Dani, Zaban Dani and Insha exams of Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu conducted by Abid Ali Khan educational trust (Siasat daily) will be held on January 29, 10 am simultaneously at all study centres of Hyderabad, Secunderabad, districts and neighbouring states.
Parents are requested to collect the hall tickets from their respective centres.
Question paper and answer sheets will be supplied by the trust office. Candidates should reach the exam centres 10 minutes before commencement of the exam.
For further details contact can be made on phone no 9290680532.
Hyderabad, January 25: According to Prof. S A Shukoor, director Centre for educational development of minorities, Osmania University, free coaching is being offered by Minority Welfare Department, government of Andhra Pradesh for the minority candidates such as Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Parsi who are appearing for APPSC Group I exams, at Nizam College, Hyderabad.
Dehradun, January 25: Don’t hurl shoes or slippers at politicians. If you don’t like them, vote them out democratically. This is yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s appeal to voters in five states going to the polls.
Ramdev, who is set to address public meetings in connection with the elections, said in a statement that voters needed to exercise their vote — “the weapon of democracy”.
He frowned upon the tendency of some people to throw shoes or slippers at political leaders.
Hyderabad, January 25: Four years after the marble benches, which are quite popular with visitors, were broken during the 2007 bomb blast at the Makkah Masjid, the government replaced with two white and one black marble slabs.
But the local political party took advantage of the situation and tried to politicize the matter.
President Tahreek Muslim Shabban condemned the effort to drive political benefit on the matter of replacement of marble takhat.
New Delhi, January 25: In yet another setback to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a panel headed by former apex court Judge M B Shah to investigate over 20 cases of alleged fake gunbattle killings in the state between 2003 and 2006.
The apex court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam said that it was open to the monitoring authority headed by Justice Shah to constitute its own investigating team of police officers from within and outside the state.
New Delhi, January 25: The Salman Rushdie saga has divided Indian Muslims with some saying he should have been allowed to participate in the Jaipur Literary Festival, if not in person then via satellite link, and others saying his 1988 book ” The Satanic Verses” was indeed offensive and preventing his India visit was justified. Still others saw UP elections behind the cancellation of his visit while some called for more debate.
Baghdad, January 25: An Afghan mother has given birth to six children at a hospital in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
The woman was not aware she was carrying more than one child and had not received fertility treatment.
Doctors say the mother arrived in hospital on Monday and gave birth on the same day to three boys and three girls. It was her first pregnancy.
Doctors say that having six children without fertility treatment is extremely rare.
Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world.
‘Brave’
Eating fried food may not be bad for the heart, as long as you use olive or sunflower oil to make it, experts say.
They found no heightened risk of heart disease or premature death linked to food that had been cooked in this way.
But the investigators stress that their findings, from studying the typical Spanish diet in which these “healthy” oils are found in abundance, do not apply to lard or other cooking oils.
So traditional fry ups should not be the order of the day, bmj.com reports.
Fat-laden
Jerusalem, January 25: An Israeli military court has ordered Hamas MP Aziz Dweik, speaker of the Palestinian parliament, to be held without trial for six months.
His lawyer told Reuters news agency that the detention order says his client is “liable to be involved in hostile actions against Israel”.
Mr Dweik was detained on Thursday near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, which Israel has designated a terrorist group, condemned the arrest.
Cairo, January 25: Egypt’s military ruler has decreed a partial lifting of the nation’s hated emergency laws, an apparent attempt to ease criticism of his policies ahead of the first anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said in a televised address on Tuesday that the draconian laws, in force for more than three decades, would be lifted effective Wednesday but would remain applicable to crimes committed by “thugs.” The military has often labelled organisers of anti-government demonstrations “thugs.”
Mumbai, January 25: Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor might be secretive about their wedding plans but there is no escape from the media glares.
Wedding preparations are on full swing.
Rajkot-based Kruti Jewellers are now set to create designer royal dress jewellery set for film actor Kareena Kapoor.
The jewellery set is supposed to be a full dress necklace with a length of head to waist.
Los Angeles, January 25: AP Google hopes to improve the user experience across its different services and give advertisers a better way to find customers.
Google Inc. is overhauling the way it treats user data, linking information across its array of email, video and social networking services so that information gathered in one place can be used in another.
For example, if you spent the last hour logged into Google to search the Web for skateboards, the next time you log into YouTube, there’s a good chance you’ll get recommendations for videos featuring Tony Hawk.
Riyadh, January 25: A Saudi mother used a metal object to beat her seven-year-old daughter until she collapsed and died in hospital, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Doctors in the western town of Taif tried in vain to save the girl after her mother hit her with the heavy metal object all over her body.
“Police said marks were all over the child’s body and they are interrogating the woman to know her motives,” Okaz daily said.
Islamabad, January 25: Pakistan’s flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi wants to retire at the peak of his career so that he is remembered among cricket’s legends.
“I have not as yet made up my mind when to call it quits. But certainly one thing I have decided is that I want to retire when I am performing well so that people remember me positively,” the 31-year-old said.
New Delhi, January 25: Voicing concern, Union minister Krishna Tirath on Tuesday said child sex ratio has seen sharp fall in many states cutting across the rural-urban divide.
“A disturbing fact is that in the last decade, as many as 27 States and Union Territories have experienced a fall in the child sex ratio,” the Women and Child Development Minister said here.
She said sharp falls have been reported in child sex ratios in many states reflecting a national trend that cuts across class and the rural-urban divide.
Mangalore, Jan 24: “The defamatory statements against Muslim community by RSS leader Dr Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka during his speech at the Hindu Samajotsava is strongly condemned by the Muslim Central Committee,” Al Haj K S Mohammed Masood, president of The Muslim Central Committee (DK and Udupi district).
At a press conference held on Tuesday January 24, Masood said that during the Samajotsava in Uppinangady on Sunday January 22, Dr Bhat “humiliated the women of Muslim community,” which is unfortunate and regrettable.
New Delhi, January 25: Anna Hazare’s latest remarks that a person is left with no option other than going for a slap when his power of tolerance towards corruption runs out, has invoked huge criticism from the political circles with leaders, cutting across party lines, slamming the social activist.
Abuja, January 25: Bodies of victims who lost their lives in the coordinated terror attacks in northern Nigeria were given mass burial Wednesday at the village of Kalebawa on the outskirts of Kano city.
Identified bodies were given to the bereaved families while those unidentified were conveyed from Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital mortuary to the burial site.
Sources at Murtala Mohammed Hospital told reporters that over 50 bodies were carried in two vehicles for burial after the traditional ruler of Kano Emir Ado Bayero had led other emirs on a sympathy visit to the hospital.
Cairo, January 25: Egyptians gathered here at the Tehrir square to mark the completion of their revolution that begin a year ago leading to the ousted of President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-old regime.
They had gather on the anniversary eve to celebrate and commemorate the revolution.
In an effort to preempt massive protests planned, the Egyptian government and military ruler of the country, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) took several measures including granting government jobs to all those got injured during the protests.
Washington, January 25: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday used his annual State of the Union policy address to denounce America’s economic inequality, drawing a battle line with Republicans ahead of what is expected to be a tough fight for re-election.
The speech before a joint session of Congress, one of America’s grandest political events, put Mr. Obama back in the spotlight after months of being overshadowed by the fierce race among Republicans vying to be his opponent in the November election. Tens of millions of people were expected to watch the speech on television.
Islamabad, January 25: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday called for continuing the India-Pakistan dialogue process in a “sustained, time-bound and result-oriented manner” to decrease “mistrust” between the two neighbours.
Khar made the remarks during a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal, who called on her to discuss bilateral relations and the dialogue process that was resumed by the two sides last year after a gap of over two years in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.