Cloud computing will generate some 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015, and India alone will create over 2 million, predicts a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC).
In May of last year, the US killing of Osama bin Laden was immediately followed by debate over the disposal of his corpse. The Obama Administration claimed bin Laden was put in a bag and hurled into the sea, which it insisted was “in keeping with Islamic practices,” whereas some were calling for his body to be kept around so it could be overtly desecrated.
Police today registered a case against VHP General Secretary Parveen Togadia for allegedly hurting the sentiments of a community at a public rally in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
An FIR has been lodged against Togadia under section 153-A of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) for hurting the sentiments of a community in Rajouri town yesterday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajouri Vijay Singh Sambyal told PTI.
Togadia had made a statement during public rally in Rajouri yesterday.
With a view to encouraging domestic manufacturing of defence equipment, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said his government is contemplating a manufacturing policy in this regard. “The country is spending huge amount on import of defence equipment. The Gujarat government is planning to come out with a policy for manufacturing defence equipment in the state, Modi said here at an award function.
The Samajwadi Party is all set to form the next government in the state on its own.
The SP has crossed the half-way mark in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and looks all set to form the next government in the state. While the party has already won 215 seats, it is leading in 10 other seats, taking the total number to 225 as per the tally at around 7 pm.
State unit president Akhilesh Yadav said party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will be the chief minister.
In what can be termed as an invitation to trouble, Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has appealed to all Maoists to lay down their arms and join mainstream politics.
Speaking at a public meeting at Chintapalli in the Vizag agency area, he said, “The Naxalites should abandon path of violence and come forward to join active politics to contest (elections)… India is the country of Mahatma Gandhi and Gautham Buddha and every Indian should follow their path of peace.”
A senior Iranian commander says the prowess of the Army has stripped the enemy of the courage to attempt an act of aggression against Iran.
“The Iranian Armed Forces are … fully prepared to counter any [act] of aggression,” Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said Monday.
Pourdastan said the Ground Forces had taken “major steps” in their martial preparedness, adding that they also monitor every move by extra-regional forces operating close to Iran’s borders.
The Obama administration is set to offer legal backing for the targeted killing of American citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities against the United States overseas.
The underpinning legal principles of the issue will be discussed by US Attorney General Eric Holder at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago on Monday afternoon.
The initiative came after the US administration was pressured by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to provide justifications that killing Americans suspected of terrorist acts is a legitimate act.
US President Barack Obama has reiterated his promise of support of Israel on security issues, insisting that the United States’ ties with Israel are unbreakable.
Speaking to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Monday, Obama said the US is committed to the security of Israel and that the two sides’ militaries and intelligence agencies have close consultations on matters related to their foreign policies.
Major and Medium Irrigation Minister P Sudharshan Reddy on Monday informed the State Legislative Assembly that under the modernisation of Krishna and Godavari Deltas would be completed in the next three years.
The minister said that under the modernisation of Krishna dn Godavari Deltas, it has been proposed to take up modernisation of canals and drains by bringing them to original standards, dredging operations and maintenance works of Sir Arthur Cotton and Prakasham Barrages.
Medical Education, Health and Family Welfare Minister Kondru Murali Mohan on Monday denied reports that several unidentified bodies were missing from the mortuary of Osmania General Hospital.
The minister made this statement in his written answer to a question raised by MLAs D Sudheer Reddy and Kuna Srisailam Goud. The minister also denied that authorities of mortuary and others were selling these unidentified bodies to various private medical colleges. (INN)
The State Government has started taking measures to grow crops in barren lands.
In a written answer to a question raised by MLA J Ramesh, Rural Development Minister D Manikya Varaprasad Rao informed the House on Monday that under Mahatra Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes works were being taken up for development of fallow lands, including works such as bush clearance, boulder removal, land leveling and slit application to make the land fit for agriculture.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan took time off from his busy shooting schedule for Bodyguard 2 on Sunday, and spent time with special children in Versova.
The programme was organized by former Mumbai police commissioner A A Khan, who was instrumental in the shootout at Lokhandwala.
Salman watched the performance put up by the special children and shared moments of fun with them.
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Here is something that can make you even more addicted to Facebook. The social networking giant, Facebook, has now officially launched Facebook Messenger for Windows, which is a standalone app that lets you IM friends via Windows 7.
The newly introduced app lets you chat, receive notifications, and read your news feed from your desktop. In other words, the messenger lets you use Facebook without being on www.facebook.com. However, missing elements from the app are video chat (through Skype) and group chat, which are there inside its web interface.
Vitamin E, dubbed the “anti-ageing” vitamin may acutally weaken your bones before their time.
Animals fed on a diet supplemented with the vitamin developed bones 20 percent weaker than those that ate normally, within just eight weeks, says a study.
The study looked at the effect of alpha-tocopherol, the most common form of the vitamin, on bone strength, the journal Nature Medicine reported.
Actor John Abraham, who had earlier faced a lot of cuts and bruises during his rigorous workouts for the film Force, has yet again undergone the same pain, but this time it has turned out to be a serious one.
Reports say that during the shooting of Sanjay Gupta’s movie Shootout At Wadala, a junior artist punched John’s nose very hard. The punch was so hard that the actor started bleeding. Reportedly, the junior artist was supposed to hit lightly, but by mistake it was a tough punch.
Actress Mallika Sherawat has come a long way since her ‘Murder’ days, but the girl and Mahesh Bhatt are known to be ‘frenemies’…
The two share a love-hate relationship, and are friends sometimes, and sometimes enemies. Anyway, talking about Mallika, Mahesh Bhatt narrated an anecdote that took place during the shooting of ‘Murder’. Apparently, Mallika didn’t want to expose for the film, and the Bhatts managed to find a body double for the actress.
A senior Congress MLA in the city is in the dock for allegedly admitting his daughter in a Delhi University college using fake documents following which the college authorities have filed a complaint with the police.
The allegation was levelled by Delhi BJP President Vijender Gupta while releasing documents related to a police complaint filed by Mata Sundri College against Jungpura MLA Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who is also Parliamentary Secretary to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Police said it was investigating the matter.
Russian police have arrested hundreds of people and broken up protests in Moscow and St Petersburg following Vladimir Putin’s victory in the presidential election.
Police moved in to disperse a protest at Pushkin Square in central Moscow, after hundreds of people refused to leave the venue at the end of a larger rally earlier.
Activists who installed themselves on top of a fountain in the square were pulled off by their legs and dragged away by their hands and feet.
n a battle that almost every poll pundit predicted to be a four-cornered contest ending with a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) has pulled off a coup, according to the CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by the CSDS.
The survey projects the SP to win 232-250 seats in the 403-member Assembly, thereby ensuring a clear majority for the party. Incumbent Chief Minister Mayawati’s BSP is projected to be a distant second with 65-79 seats while arch rivals Congress and BJP are expected to win 36-44 and 28-38 seats respectively.
Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence for spying handed down to former US Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati, Iranian media reported on Monday, quoting a top judiciary official.
“The sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court … The case has been sent back” to the court for retrial, prosecutor general Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei told a press conference, ISNA news agency reported without elaborating.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy Monday said the government was waiting for the high court’s consent to implement an agreement reached with the Telangana employees at the end of a 42-day-long strike last year.
The chief minister told the assembly that the government has sought the court’s permission to implement the agreement and hoped that the matter would come up in a couple of days.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N Chandrababu Naidu today said Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar should not have adjourned the house for the day after the BJP and his party legislators raised the issue of non-implementation of the assurances given to government employees in Telangana region during the ‘sakalu januala samme.’ Talking to mediapersons at TDLP office in the Assembly, he said the adjourning of the house is very sad without addressing the issue by the government.
The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) will train 1000 management faculty members in the country for upgrading their skills, AIMS President Prof Mohd Masood Ahamed said today. Addressing a press conference here, Prof Ahmed said most of the Management teachers were consciously aware that they are expected to prepare the new management students as global managers with the required vision not only to face the challenges in their job, but also to crate new products and services before reaching out to new markets for meeting the growing global needs.
An Official delegation of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) called on the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, here today.