Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray Tuesday questioned the relevance of the anti-corruption crusade by veteran activist Anna Hazare and his team members.
In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray said that for the first time since Hazare’s “flop show” in Mumbai in December last year, Team Anna had again featured in the news.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray Tuesday questioned the relevance of the anti-corruption crusade by veteran activist Anna Hazare and his team members.
In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray said that for the first time since Hazare’s “flop show” in Mumbai in December last year, Team Anna had again featured in the news.
A prominent Kuwaiti scholar and popular TV talk show host reiterated his belief that freedom must come before Sharia.
Tariq al-Suwaidan, who is head of the Kuwait-based Al-Risala TV station, and has his own TV program, was speaking at the al-Nahdha conference for a graduates association in Kuwait on Saturday when he said “If Islamists start to become tyrants in the countries that were hit by the Arab Spring, we will revolt against them just like we did against their predecessors.”
The Lok Sabha was adjourned twice Tuesday following noisy disruptions by MPs from Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region pressing for their demand of separate statehood for the region.
As soon as the lower house convened at 11 a.m., MPs from the Congress, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) shouted slogans of “Jai Telangana”, urging Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the house and let the government answer what it was doing for the creation of a separate Telangana state.
A migrant watchgroup urged Filipinos in Saudi Arabia to be more cautious in expressing their faith after the country’s most influential Islamic scholar issued a fatwa against religious structures in the Arab Peninsula.
In a statement, John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator, said it is understandable why a religious leader of a kingdom hosting a large population of migrant workers would issue such a restriction on the exercise of religion other than Islam.
A University of Amsterdam cardiologist has confirmed the role of high density lipoprotein (HDL) – the “good cholesterol” – in protecting against heart disease.
John Kastelein made his finding while examining a patient who was brought into emergency at an Amsterdam hospital after he had collapsed with a heart attack.
The 36-year-old man was tall and lean, non-smoking and physically fit.
The intense grief caused by losing a loved one can weaken the body’s immune system leaving it more vulnerable to infections, says a new study.
Academics from the University of Birmingham have found that increased stress levels and depression brought on by bereavement interferes with a type of white blood cell called neutrophils.
These are key to fighting certain bacterial infections such as pneumonia. The researchers say the effects worsen with age as adults lose the ability to produce another hormone that can counteract the damage.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met here Tuesday and said the two countries had charted the right path to resolve their issues and decided to intensify dialogue.
The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit here in an unscheduled informal meeting, reviewed their improving bilateral relations, said sources.
This was the first meeting between the two leaders since they met in the idyllic Addu resort in the Maldives where they had vowed to script “a new chapter” in their bilateral ties.
President Barack Obama warned North Korea and Iran on Monday that their options are few, and their friends fewer, as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing.
“By now it should be clear,” Obama said, addressing North Korea from the South Korean capital only about 30 miles away. “Your provocations and pursuit of nuclear weapons have not achieved the security you seek, they have undermined it. Instead of the dignity you desire, you are more isolated.”
Try broaching the topic of her marriage, or even a mention of her husband Sunjay’s name, and Karisma doesn’t take it too kindly.
Recently, Karisma was talking about how she is enjoying her motherhood and how with two children there are a lot of responsibilities. And when some one asked whether her husband helps her in the domestic chores and do they share children’s responsibities, Karisma politely requested to stay away from the topic related to her husband and marriage.
A college girl attempted suicide after she was allegedly raped by five policemen when she was returning home from tuition in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a media report said.
The student was raped by five policemen in Sheikhupura last week and attempted to end her life Monday, reported Dawn.
The five suspects are on the run.
The policemen were on patrol duty Friday evening when they stopped the 16-year-old girl who was returning home from tuition along with her cousin.
The policemen threatened the girl’s male cousin and forced him to leave. They then raped her.
Wife’s killer husband commit suicide
(Siasat News): A man who had blamed his wife for his disease, had killed his wife and later committed suicide. This incident occurred in Ghatkesar police station limits where 48-year-old Edukundalu killed his 40-year-old wife Prabhavathi.
Both husband and wife had clashed over the disease of Kundalu and they were blaming each other. According to some unreliable sources, both husband and wife were suffering from HIV.
A new opinion poll shows the Americans’ support for the war in Afghanistan has plunged sharply, hitting a record low after the recent massacre of at least 16 civilians by US soldiers in the Asian country.
The latest New York Times/CBS survey found that 69 percent of the respondents believe the United States should not be fighting in Afghanistan any more.
The poll, conducted among 986 adults from March 21-25, shows a 16-point increase in dissatisfaction with the decade-plus-long war, compared with a similar survey four months ago. The figure was 53 percent back in November.
Even after refunding unspent balance allocated for the implementation of welfare schemes to the Govt. of India, is there is any doubt that the Muslim Ummah has been imposed incompetent Muslim leadership?
The moderate Islamist Ennahda party rejected Monday, March 26, calls for making Islamic Shari`ah as the main source of legislation in Tunisia’s new constitution.
“Ennahda has decided to retain the first clause of the previous constitution without change,” senior party official Ameur Larayed told Radio Mosaique.
“We want the unity of our people and we do not want divisions.”
The party, which leads Tunisia’s government, has not formally announced its final position.
An incident of cheating came to limelight in which a minister, an MP and an MLA were cheated to the tune of Rs. 20 crore.
According to reliable sources in the outskirts of the city the famous real estate company walmart was to establish its office on the land belonging to a Minster. A Muslim MP and an MLA alongwith his companions gave Rs. 20 crore to a real estate agent.
In a major success for Maharashtra ATS, it arrested a fugitive suspect in 2008 Ahmedabad blasts that claimed 56 lives after gunning down his accomplice in an encounter in Aurangabad today that also left a constable injured, police said.
The gang, headed by Abu Faizal, a former member of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), had also reportedly plotted to eliminate the judges of Allahabad High Court who had pronounced the verdict in the Babri Masjid case, police said.
Despite political and security unrest, Yemen is becoming a favorite destination for foreign students seeking to study Islam.
“I feel home here,” Abdel-Rahman, an Indonesian student who studies at the School of Thought in Hadramaut, told OnIslam.net.
“I’m studying in Hadramaut because it is the source of knowledge which is spread all over Indonesia.
“This is why most students prefer to come here to study, because we feel comfortable.”
Govt. is not considering any proposal to merge the Commissionerates of of Hyderabad and Cyberabad. Such a proposal has not been received from the DGP. Ms. Sabitha Indira Reddy, Home Minister replying to a question in the Assembly told this. MLA’s belonging to Congress and MIM parties raised this issue in Assembly yesterday.
India’s Sachin S. Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be performed in outer space.
The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) were announced at a ceremony at the Newseum here Friday.
No wonder superstar Salman Khan is still the ruling hunk of the tinsel town and when it comes to his bachelorhood charm, every woman swoons over it. Like any other Indian woman, Television actress Barkha Bisht too has a similar liking for Sallu miyaan.
In yet another reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred more than 100 IPS officers including DGs and police chiefs of several districts. Director General, PAC, Dev Raj Nagar has been given additional charge of chairman, police recruitment and promotion board, whereas DG Human Rights BM Saraswat has been shifted to training headquarters, an official spokesman said in Lucknow on Tuesday.
The transfers were issued late last night.
DG, Anti Corruption Organisation Arun Kumar Gupta has been given additional charge of managing director, police housing corporation.
At least 20 people died in eastern Pakistan on Monday when their bus rolled over several times after the driver lost control of the vehicle in a high speed.
The accident occurred around 5.30 pm in Shekhupura district of Punjab province. Dozens of people were injured. The bus was heading for Lahore, the provincial capital.
The toll could increase as some of the injured were in critical condition, Xinhua quoted the local Urdu channel Dunya TV as saying.
John Abraham is one such Bollywood actor who doesn’t believe in the stereotyped attitude of shying away from delicate and sensitive topics like homosexuality or sperm donation. Following the same, John who is all set go for his upcoming movie Vicky Donor, shot a promotional video for the film supporting the cause of sperm donation.
A judicial commission probing a mysterious memo that sought US help to stave off a military coup in Pakistan on Monday rejected former envoy Husain Haqqani’s plea to testify via video link from London.
The three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing till tomorrow after turning down Haqqani’s request.
The former Ambassador to the US, who is currently outside Pakistan, has filed an appeal in the apex court to be allowed to depose via a video link.