Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said he would appear in Pakistan’s Supreme Court tomorrow for the sentencing in a contempt of court case that could decide his fate.
Addressing a meeting of his cabinet, Gilani said: “I will appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow.”
The government has always respected the judiciary and acted on its orders and will continue to do so, he said.
A new report Wednesday by a Kabul-based think tank accuses international forces of misleading the public by calling military operations “Afghan-led” even in cases where NATO or U.S. forces are the only troops on the ground.
The charge cuts to the heart of a public perception battle being waged in Afghanistan, where international troops are eager to showcase successes by Afghan forces and to downplay the role played by international soldiers as NATO draws down forces and hands over security to Afghan control.
Pakistan is reluctant to take a strong action against the terrorist safe havens inside the country which is a major source of frustration, a top US General has said.
“The border with Pakistan is a source of frustration,” Marine Corps Maj Gen John Toolan, commander of the 2nd Marine Division and former commander of Regional Command-South West, said.
In a breakfast meeting yesterday, Toolan told Defence Writers’ Group that during the year of his stay in Afghanistan the Pakistani Army’s 12th Corps was positioned across the border.
Corruption has badly hit the ambitious task of providing jobs to rural poor through the MNREGA, a Congress member lamented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Datta Meghe said MNREGA may have been started with lofty ideals seven years back but its result was “not that good” as corruption has virtually made the scheme hollow.
Noting that crores of people have been provided job under the scheme envisaging 100 days employment in a year, he alleged that the work performed is not of good quality even though huge sums have been spent.
The world’s largest solar-powered plane, Swiss-made Solar Impulse, will take its first-ever cross-continent flight in May or June.
The plane, co-piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, will attempt for the first time to fly more than 2,500 km, taking off in Payerne in western Switzerland, crossing the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean without using fuel, and landing in Morocco.
The exact date for taking off will be decided according to weather condition, said Andre Borschberg, co-founder and CEO of Solar Impulse that made the aircraft.
Pathan Kaun Banega Crorepati Mein:
Q: What is you father name?
Pathan: Plz Options?
A. Dilawar
B. Changez
C. Feroz
D. Sultan
Pathan: Life line 50/50
A. Dilawar
C. Feroze
Pathan: Audience Vote.
75% Dilawar
25% Feroze
Pathan: I want to use My last life line “Phone a friend.”
Kisko call karengy?
Pathan: Apne baap dilawar ko!
Mayawati came to Lalu’s house with a goat…
Lalu : Bhaiswa ko kyun layi ho?
Maya : Dikhta nahi, goatwa hai.
Lalu : Hum goatwa se hi puch raha hu!!!
==>Rajnikant has counted to infinity-twice.
==>When Rajnikant does pushups, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the earth down.
==>Rajnikant doesn’t wear a watch, he decides what time it is!!
==>Rajnikant’s house has no doors, only walls that he walks through.
==>Rajnikant grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.
==>The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Rajnikant kicked one of the corners off.
==>Rajnikant once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills, they just made him blink.
Ek chota baccha bahut der se ghar ke bahar khada darwaje ki ghanti bajane ki kosish kar raha tha.Toh ek budha aadmi aaya aur kaha:
Budha aadmi: Kya kar rahe ho beta?
Baccha: Uncle, yeh ghanti bajana chahta hoon.
Budha aadmi (ghanti bajake): Yeh lo bajgaya, ab kya hai?
Baccha: Ab bhago!
Insensitivity among Muslims is due to lack of collectivity among Muslims which can bring serious results in the near future. We need to learn lesson from those tribal communities who are residing in forests. They have collective system even today, they prefer collective tribal system to family system. But sadly Muslims have left collective system and limited themselves to family system and now they have switched to individualism leaving family system also. Which has resulted to insensitivity among the community and they are failing to understand each others pain.
New Delhi, Amid fresh allegations that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have toned down the probe to protect Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors scam, seniorBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday charged the ruling Congress Party of being deep rooted in corruption, and said that his party will expose them completely.
Apple Inc’s quarterly results beat Wall Street estimates on stronger-than-expected demand for the iPhone, especially in the greater China region where sales jumped five-fold.
While iPad sales were a little lighter than expected, the overall results sent the stock up 7 percent, recouping some losses from the past two weeks that had stemmed from concerns about weakening sales growth for iPhones.
Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones – which accounts for about half its revenue – in the March quarter, outpacing the 30 million or so expected by Wall Street analysts.
Washington, An Indian-origin woman in the US set her husband on fire and locked him in a bathroom, after promising him a hot oil massage, police said.
Shriya Biman Patel, 25, has been arrested on charges of first-degree felony aggravated assault and arson and booked into the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas.
The latest from the Kapoor clan to make it to Bollywood is producer Boney Kapoor’s son Arjun, who is already gathering a lot of appreciation for his yet-to-be released debut flick ‘Ishaqzaade’.
This rustic looking lad used to weigh over a hundred kilos and had aspirations to become a director. And that is when Salman Khan came into the picture. The ‘Dabangg’ superstar asked him to pursue acting as a career. On Salman’s advice, this kid Kapoor turned from flab to fab and now sports a slim physique.
TRIVANDRUM, – Italy said on Tuesday it had paid $380,000 to the families of two Indian fishermen who officials said were mistaken for pirates and shot dead by an Italian navy security team guarding a merchant vessel.
Two marines, who were escorting the Italian-flagged tanker Enrica Lexie off India’s south western coast in February, were charged with murder and are awaiting trial in the state of Kerala,.
NEW DELHI, A major reshuffle seems to be imminent in the Congress party as four top ministers have written to party president Sonia Gandhi saying they want to quit their ministerial portfolios and work for the party, television news channel CNN IBN reported.
CNN IBN reported that the ministers in question are Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Overseas Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, and Law & Justice and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
This Kapoor lad has been making waves with his acting ever since his debut. Ranbir Kapoor is one of the few actors who has managed to do myriad roles in different genres of films very early in his career.
The actor who is known to experiment with his looks (remember Rockstar’s grunge look) will soon go for a major makeover for his role in Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bombay Velvet’.
Cham Cham, is a Bengali sweet, famous among those who has sweet tooth. Cham Cham, is a part of the ceremony and also of the gifts which people give each other. Here is the recipe of Cham Cham to treat yourself to homemade Bengali sweet.
Ingredients:
1.Full Cream – 2 lt
2.Lime juice – 2-3 spoons
3.Flour – 5 tbsp
4.Water – 4 cups
5.Sugar – 2 cups
6.Rose Water – 2-3 tbsp
7.200 gm fresh cream
Method
The US has said that there is no change in its policy towards issuing visas to Indian students.
“I don’t think we’ve changed our policy with regard to the way we interview applicants,” state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference.
“I think what we are doing is making sure that the sponsoring organisations truly are what they say they are in the United States; that if they say that they are bringing students over to educate them, that they intend to educate them, not put them to work, et cetera,” she said.
Cook this delightful, spicy mutton dish this festival season.Ingredients:
5 Onions
5 Tomatoes
750gms Boneless mutton
½ tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Kalonji (onion seeds)
5 Cloves
1 tsp saunf (fennel seeds)
1 tsp Red chili powder
2 tbsp Ginger
2 tbsp Garlic
½ cup Coriander (chopped)
8 Whole Red Chillies
1/2 cup
7 tbsp Mustard Oil
Salt (according to taste)
Procedure:
Chop onions and tomatoes.
Roast the whole spices separately. Grind them altogether.
Try out this royal, scrumptious recipe.Ingredients:
400 gms Basmati Rice
1/2 kg Mutton (cut in pieces)
3 Onions (sliced)
1/2 tbsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
1 tsp Garam Masala
3 small-sized Red Chilies
1 piece Cinnamon
1/2 cup Curd (beaten)
3 Green Cardamom
5 Pepper
5 Cloves
1/2 tsp Shahjeera
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1/4 cup Milk, with saffron
1 pinch Coriander/Pudina (chopped)
5 apricots
Dry Fruits
Ghee, as required
Procedure:
Fry the dry fruits & apricots in 2½ tbsp ghee, with a little salt (to taste).
Eating pistachios may help alter levels of potentially beneficial bacteria in the gut, according to a new study.
The preliminary 16-person study holds promise for supporting digestive health.
The research is the first study of pistachios and almonds and their modulating role on the gut microbiota composition.
“Gut microbiota, or the microbial environment in the gastrointestinal tract, provides important functions to the human host,” said Volker Mai, PhD, lead study author and assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
An ingredient of oregano, the common pizza and pasta seasoning herb, could potentially be used to treat prostate cancer, researchers including one of an Indian have found.
This super-spice, studied by researchers at Long Island University (LIU), has long been known to possess a variety of beneficial health effects.
Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the prostate gland and usually occurs in older men. Recent data shows that about 1 in 36 men will die of prostate cancer.
THE match between Kolkata Knight Riders ( KKR) and Deccan Chargers ( DC) was called off without even a ball being bowled after a thunderstorm accompanied with heavy rain lashed the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
With the match abandoned, both teams shared a point each. KKR with 9 points from 8 games are at second place while Deccan Chargers with 5 losses in as many games before the match opened their points tally with one point and are at the bottom of the table.
Dean Andrews who suffers from a rare ageing disease has a 160-year-old body.
According to a ‘Daily Mail’ report, in just 20 years he has aged eight times faster than normal. There are only about 74 such cases reported in the world.
The 20-year-old weighs just he weighs just about 20kgs. He was diagnosed with progeria at seven years and his mother was told he would not live beyond his early teens.