Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, ongress leader Rajiv Shukla on Friday said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Government in the state is terrified of Rahul Gandhi and eventually suffering from his ‘phobia’.
Actor Saif Ali Khan, who is gearing up for the release of his spy thriller, `Agent Vinod` says to watch his girlfriend and leading lady Kareena Kapoor perform a `mujra` would be fresh and exciting.
Kareena, who is paired opposite beau Saif in the forthcoming film, has performed a `mujra` for the first time. The song, `Dil Mera Muft Ka` is choreographed by veteran Saroj
Khan.
Savour a pure vegetarian and low fat cheese cake.
Ingredients:
Fatless Cream Cheese 1.5 Cup
Low Calories Cream 1.5 Cup
Strawberry Caulis 1 Cup
Sugar Free 1 Tablespoon
Agar-Agar 1 Tablespoon
Low Calories Cream 1 Cup
Fresh Strawberries 28 Pieces
Procedure:
Soak the Agar-Agar in water and dissolve wormed Strawberry Caulis.
Mix the 1 Tbs. Sugar free in the Cream and whip until fluffy and soft pick.
Fold together above mixture and fill in to a round ring.
Pour the mixture in to the mould.
Set the Cake in the Fridge.
Bird flu may be far less lethal to people than the World Health Organization`s assessment of a death rate topping 50 percent, scientists said on Thursday in a finding that adds fuel to the heated controversy over publication of bird flu research.
Scientists led by virologist Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York argue in an analysis published in the online edition of the journal Science that the WHO, a UN agency, is calculating the death rate using an estimate of human bird flu cases that is simply too low.
The Left Front Friday termed as “obnoxious” the West Bengal government’s circular denying state employees leave on Feb 28 when the central trade unions have called a nationwide strike. It equated the Trinamool Congress regime’s action with that of the country’s erstwhile colonial rulers.
“This is obnoxious, never happened before in the state. Only during the British regime such kind of circulars were issued. It is right of the government employee to apply for leave any day. We oppose this black circular,” Left Front chairman Biman Bose said.
At a time when top politicians and bureaucrats are disclosing the details of their personal wealth so as to bring transparency in their public life, Congress party president Sonia Gandhi has refused to do so, citing personal freedom and security risk.
Reports, Friday, claimed that UPA chairperson has refused to entertain an RTI query seeking details of her I-T returns from the year 2000-2001 to 2010-2011, saying the details of her income tax returns were with the concerned department.
The people of Karnataka are suffering because of the infighting in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress said Friday.
Spokesperson Rajiv Shukla told reporters here that while he would not comment on BJP’s internal affairs, the people of Karnataka “are paying for the internal conflicts of the party in the state”.
A fresh crisis enveloped the BJP in Karnataka after former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa reportedly set a Feb 27 deadline for the party to make him chief minister again, failing which he would quit.
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Kuber Sarup hugged, pecked a girl on the cheek while saying bye. Outraged by his ‘indecent act’, cops dragged him to police station, forced him to pay up (a lecture on Indian values was free)
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the stir against Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant, today rejected as “baseless” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s remarks that foreign NGOs are behind its protest.
“It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister has made the allegations without any documentary proof. We strongly deny his observation that the agitation is being funded by other countries,” PMANE convener SP Udayakumar told reporters here.
He demanded that Singh provide documentary proof in support of his allegation or withdraw his remarks. AP
While Deepika may have burnt some bridges accepting Rajinikanth’s Kochadaiyaan and walking out of Ramesh Taurani’s ‘Race 2’, it’s Katrina Kaif who seems to be having the last laugh!
Apparently, people close to her insist that it was she who was first offered the part opposite Rajinikanth by Soundarya in the film. It’s only when she couldn’t do it due to prior commitmments that the movie was offered to Deepika, who lapped up the opportunity with both her hands.
Congress senior leaders who used to spit venom splitting across vertically on regional lines when Telangana agitation on fire, have started meeting secretly in closed doors. Many political analysts feel they are taking upon themselves to find a soltion to boiling T-Cup showing a way to their belagured high command at Delhi.
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi brushes aside threats by the United States and its allies against Tehran, stressing that Iran will never waver in the face of threats by any country, particularly the US.
The Islamic Republic takes action in line with its national interests, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told IRNA on Thursday.
Iran has always maintained that it will strongly defend its interests and will never allow any country to execute plots against it and threaten its national interests, he added.
Achche Lal, a Class 12 dropout, did what few would dare to do in his community. Breaking taboo, the young farmer in Madhya Pradesh married a woman who was raped by bandits only two days before they were to wed.
The marriage took place in a village in Shivpuri district Tuesday, Lal told IANS.
On Sunday night, the bride’s family was in despair after a gang of robbers took away all the wedding jewellery and cash and raped the bride and her sister at gunpoint.
“It was no fault of the girl. I need to stand by her. I have married her and I will fight for her justice too,” he said.
US President Barack Obama Thursday vowed to keep developing new sources of energy, blaming instability in Middle East and increasing demand from emerging markets for the recent gas price hike.
According to the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), the US average retail price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.591 Feb 20, 40.2 cents up from a year ago.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich seized on the issue to try to re-energize his campaign. He asserted that if becoming president, he could drive gasoline prices as low as $2 a gallon.
Women who use nicotine gum, patches or inhalers while pregnant are 60 percent more likely to have a child with colic than moms who stayed away from nicotine, according to a new study.
That`s in contrast to earlier studies that suggested the widely used nicotine products are harmless during pregnancy.
“There was a general feeling that nicotine replacement therapy was safe,” said Alison Holloway, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who was not involved in the new work.
Scientists claim to have finally found how muscles waste away in aged people it`s due to the permanent disconnection between nerves and muscles.
An international team says the discovery of the reason behind progressive loss of muscle mass and function in elderly people may open up opportunities for new interventions to slow down muscle loss and improve health and quality of life.
“If your nerves are letting go of muscles, then that is a one-way trip to loss of muscle function,” the scientists explained, based on their published observations in aged mice in the `PLoS One` journal.
Saif Ali Khan’s hot-headed attitude has garnered the actor enough limelight in the past two days. However this incident comes at a point, a time when his dream movie “Agent Vinod” is close to release.
While theories were floating that the “ugly incident” was planned publicity, the nawab completely denies the happening. Saif says, “We don’t need such kind of publicity, such negative things are completely unwarranted.”
US President Barack Obama’s faith has become a political issue again after a senior Christian evangelist said he could not know what the American leader actually believed.
“I have no idea what he really believes,” evangelist Franklin Graham said on MSBC’s “Morning Joe” program and cited by Reuters.
Graham, the leader of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said that he accepted Obama at his word that he was a Christian.
“I’ve told people this many times, I accept him at what he says,” he said.
How corruption has taken the toll on parties who were crying hoarse about corruption from Bofors scandal to 2G scandal.Crisis in BJP’s Karnataka unit appeared to worsen on Friday with former chief minister B. S. Yeddyurappa insisting on a February 27 ultimatum for his reinstatement and party president Nitin Gadkari ruling out replacing incumbent Sadananda Gowda.
Mr. Yeddyurappa, who was forced to resign more than six months ago after a Lokayukta report indicted him on illegal mining, made it clear to the party chief that he was in no mood to wait any longer.
Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev may soon land in legal mess for his claims to cure cancer and HIV with yoga and medicines marketed by his pharmacy.
Medical councils have now united against the likes of Baba Ramdev, who have claimed to cure diseases through television and other means.
In a meeting held in New Delhi, a resolution was passed by the state medical councils asking the Drug Controller General of India to book all those who promise to cure diseases under the Drugs and Magic Remedies. (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954.
To prevent pilferage of power, the Central Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL) is contemplating to install prepaid electric meters in the city. Once this is done, consumers will have to recharge their connection like mobile recharge for using power whenever balance reaches a minimum value.
Coal Minister Prakash Jaiswal on Thursday, Feb 23 said, if congress fails to obtain majority in the ongoing assembly elections in the state then there is a possibility of President’s rule being imposed in Uttar Pradesh.
“If Congress did not get the majority in Uttar Pradesh then there will be President’s rule in the state,” said Jaiswal.
Reacting to Jaiswal statement, senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti said, “Congress has feudal mindset and they don’t believe in democracy. The people will give their answer through votes.”
Despite Pakistan’s objections, US drone strikes are going to continue as long as America thinks they are useful, said a Pakistani daily.
An editorial in the News International Friday said the “drones are back in business”.
There was a two-month pause in drone activity following NATO airstrikes in November last year in which 24 Pakistani soldiers died.
Yemen’s former ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the United States several days after the Arab state’s sham elections in which only one candidate ran for president.
According to reports, a Yemeni official confirmed on Thursday that Saleh had left the United States, but gave no information about his destination.
Saleh had repeatedly said he would return to Yemen after his “treatment” in the US. He allegedly underwent medical treatment in the US for wounds he sustained in an attack on his presidential palace last year.
Mexican actress and producer Salma Hayek plans to make an animated film based on Lebanese author Khalil Gibran’s novel “The Prophet”, The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday.
The book, written in 1923, consists of 26 chapters devoted to topics such as love, marriage, childhood, joy, freedom, death and faith.
Hayek, whose father hails from Lebanon, has teamed up with the Doha Film Institute and Participant Media to bring Gibran’s classic to the screen.