Talking to newsmen, Principal Secretary to Govt. Dept. of Tourism said that Govt. has taken possession of the land of old Gandhi Medical College situated at Bashir Bagh.
HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal said that the new world offers ample opportunities for those who are ready to face the challenge of change. In fact, only those will be successful and will survive who sense the change and know the art of benefiting from it.
It is our responsibility that we should innovate something and give it to this world which has given us so much. Mr. Sibal was delivering the fourth convocation address of Maulana Azad National Urdu University. Chancellor of the University Dr. Saiyida Saidain Hameed presided over the convocation function.
Polish Interior Minister Jacek Cichocki has announced that 14 people have been confirmed dead in a train collision in the country’s southern province of Silesia.
“At present, the death toll in this train catastrophe has risen to 14,” said Cichocki, speaking at the crash site as rescue operations were underway overnight .
The accident occurred on Saturday night when a train en route to the southern city of Krakow collided with another train which was travelling on the same track to the capital Waraw from the southeastern city of Przemysl.
A man’s genitals were chopped off by a woman and two of her family members for asking them to return his money, police in Bihar said Sunday adding the victim is now battling for life at a hospital.
According to police, the victim, Ram Biriksh Prasad, 35, is a resident of Ushwaha Tola of Kemai village in Nawada district, about 140 km from here.
The man’s private parts were chopped off in his village by a woman named Pratima Devi along with two of her family members, said police official P.C. Yadav.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister P Sabitha Indira Reddy today informed the state Assembly that the government has taken safety measures for the prevention of fire accidents in corporate hospitals. Replying to a question raised by J Ramesh (Cong) and others during the Question Hour, the minister listed out the measures being enforced on corporate hospitals for prevention of accidents.
Officials of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today conducted raids at the residences of excise officials in a liquor syndicate row at various places in Andhra Pradesh.
Separate teams of ACB Officials conducted the raids at various places in Hyderabad, Khammam, Warangal and Chittoor districts.
Several documents were seized from a top excise official”s residence at Hanumkonda in Warangal District. Searches were also conducted at the residences of a Circle Inspector in Warangal and Chittoor Districts. UNI
Bollywood’s sultry actress Bipasha Basu, who gained many accolades for her genuine and good acting in Jodi Breakers, has a lots to say about love, sex and relationships.
During an interview with a leading daily, Bipasha spoke about her preferences while doing a movie. She admitted that she prefers doing intimate scenes than kissing scenes. Also, she added that she is too scared of kissing.
Congress leader K. Chiranjeevi on Friday said that he had no information about the allotment of a Rajya Sabha ticket to him by the Congress High Command.
During an interaction with mediapersons in the Assembly lobbies on Friday, Mr Chiranjeevi said, “I have not received any information in this regard. I cannot comment on things about which I have no information. I will abide by whatever decision the party high command takes.”
Mr Chiranjeevi tried to avoid controversy and appeared very cautious during the interaction.
India’s prayers have finally been answered. Doctors looking after two-year-old Baby Falak at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi have said that the toddler “has survived.” She was brought to the hospital on January 18 in a severely battered and bruised condition. After over 45 days of treatment, she is now out of coma and has been off ventilator support for the past five days.
The word ‘sexy’ crept into the Indian lexicon a long time ago, but it continues to create ripples in a society where the conservative goes hand in hand with the modern. Some find it outrageous and derogatory while others say it is important to see how the term is used.
The renewed debate comes after Mamta Sharma, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), said: “If a group of boys eve-teases you by calling you sexy, you should not get provoked and instead you should take it positively.”
This Saturday the diva in the limelight on BIG CBS LOVE’s popular show India’s Glam Diva is the sensational Katrina Kaif. Dazzlingly beautiful, Katrina Kaif has been voted the sexist woman time and again and her perfect 10 figure is desired by millions. Now she is here on BIG CBS LOVE to talk about life, movies and her journey to the top.
Shilpa Shetty is all set to dress cheer girls to bring some more glamour at the martial arts fighting tournament.
Shilpa Shetty has decided to help out her husband Raj Kundra in every possible way. Raj along with Sanjay Dutt will soon be launching a mixed martial arts fighting league in the country soon. Cheer girls will be employed to inject the oomph quotient in the martial arts.
Former Australia cricket captain Ian Chappell said India’s batting great Sachin Tendulkar has to take a look at himself and ask if he is playing the game for the right reason.
“What could have been a glorious farewell tour of Australia for Sachin Tendulkar has turned into an ongoing tale of missed opportunities, leading to frustration all round,” Chappell wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
Chappell said with Tendulkar blaming others for his failure to get the elusive 100th international century, it was high time for him to look at himself.
The United States has once again threatened Iran with a military strike over the country’s nuclear energy program while warning Israel of the unintended consequences of attacking the Islamic Republic.
In an interview with Atlantic magazine on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not taking any option off the table” in order to stop Iran’s nuclear energy program.
“It includes a military component. And I think people understand that,” Obama said three days before a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
A former CIA chief has praised the US use of Stuxnet virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear energy program, noting that the measure legitimized using malware as a weapon to cause destruction.
“We have entered into a new phase of conflict in which we use a cyber weapon to create physical destruction,” said Michael Hayden, former director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in an interview with CBS television to be broadcast on Sunday.
“This was a good idea, alright?” he added.
A senior Turkish politician has warned that any US war against Iran will bring an end to the United States.
The leader of Turkey’s Democrat Party, Namik Kemal Zeybek, told Media in an interview on Saturday that those who threaten to launch a war against Iran should remember Islamic Republic’s eight-year defense against Iraq from 1980 to 1988.
Calling young management graduates to create a new India, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Saturday said that India is a land of billion opportunities and not a billion problems.
“These opportunities manifest themselves through the various challenges faced by our country,” Ambani said while delivering the Convocation address at the Institute of Management Technology.
Film maker Yash Chopra returns to the director’s chair after seven years to make a love film on Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif.
Bombay Times published the first look of the pair in the film.
The film will see SRK working with Katrina Kaif for the first time on celluloid.
Anushka Sharma also features in the film,which is being shot extensively in London, followed by a long schedule in India.
Katrina and SRK were approached for many projects together in the past, but they chose this film because the story appealed to them.
Her debut Bollywood film ‘Ek Deewana Tha’ may not have fared well at the box office but that has not deterred actress Amy Jackson from signing on more Hindi films.
“’Ek Deewana Tha’ is very special to me. I was very happy with my performance. I am very grateful to those who gave me this opportunity to do the film. I had a wonderful time doing the film with Prateik…he is a great co-actor. I have found a great friend in Prateik. All I would say is that I am here to stay in Bollywood,” Amy told PTI, on the sidelines of Lakme Fashion Week here.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has opposed any move to legalize same-sex relations calling it shameful and unnatural development which will destroy the family system. Syed Jalaluddin Umari, President of JIH has called upon people to oppose it.
“Legalizing such unnatural things will destroy the family system and will result in the disintegration of society,” Maulana Umri said while addressing media today in the national capital.
All party leaders, at a round table conference on the construction of port in Machilipatnam, vowed to intensify the agitation, if the government did not make a clear statement during the ongoing Assembly sessions. Participating at the round table conference, here today, all party leaders, including Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and Machilipatnam MP Konakalla Narayana called for Krishna district bandh on April 11 in protest against the indifferent attitude of the state government in expediting the process for the construction of port.
Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh Unit President G Kishan Reddy today said the party will contest the by-elections for the 17 Assembly seats caused due to disqualification of the YSR Congress party legislators. Addressing a press conference here, he said the party would contest from the all 17 seats in the by-elections. Mr Reddy said the party had not decided so far on extending its support to TRS, however, he said the BJP will contest the Mahaboobnagar assembly seat in the elections.
Two Andhra cricketers- T Atchuta Rao and C Sneha Kishore have been picked up by the Deccan Chargers to play in the upcoming IPL T20 tournament. In a press release, Andhra Cricket Association, here today, said both the players had played in several matches and proved themselves. ACA General secretary Gokaraju Ganga Raju and President D V Subba Rao congratulated the players after the appointment. UNI
Keeping in view the magnitude of the biggest ever Biodiversity International meet in Hyderabad from Ooctober 1 to 19 and the coordination requirements, a State Steering Committee with Ministers has been formed headed by the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Ministerial Delegations from 193 countries will be participating in the Convention being held first time in the country. This includes 20 Heads of countries and Ministers from 90 countries.
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Mr Kapil Sibal today called upon the young graduates to utilise their potential for making the world a better place for others. In his inaugural address at the 4th convocation of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here, Mr Sibal said as graduates you are about to embark on your own extraordinary journeys and create your own life adventures and it is our responsibility to create and contribute something to the world, he said.