Saudi Arabia’s top religious official has blamed Muslim sinfulness for instability in the Middle East, where pro-democracy unrest has toppled four heads of state. “The schism, instability, the malfunctioning of securityand the breakdown of unity that Islamic countries are facing these days is a result of the sins of the public and their transgressions,” Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh was quoted as saying by al-Watan newspaper.
A wedding without a groom goes ahead in all its splendour as the man’s sister ties the knot on his behalf.
Now, would you call this a marraige?
Kamalesh Chandran, 26, with dreams in his eyes was all set to fly from Dubai to wed his sweetheart but had to return to his accomodation after having waited for hours at the airport expecting to get his passport.
Chandran works at a furniture company in Al Barsha, Dubai, could not reach the marriage venue in Kerala, on time (Thursday May 3, 2012), because his female boss did not release his passport.
Delicious and a perfect refreshing drink for summers.
Ingredients:
1 Ripe Mango
4 tsp Sugar
1 cup Milk
Essence, as per requirement
Preparation:
Boil the milk and allow it to cool down to room temperature.
Peel and cut the mango and crush in a mixer.
Pour the milk and sugar; grind once again.
Serve chill.
Try out this delicious Chaat at home!
Ingredients:
Papdi, 250 gms
Potato, boiled and cut into small pieces, 2 medium sized
Tomatoes, finely chopped, 2 small
Chickpeas, boiled, ½ cup
Besan dhokla, crumbled, 2
Sour curd / yogurt (whipped), 2-3 cups
Rock salt (to taste), 1 teaspoon
Roasted cumin seed powder, 1-2 teaspoon
Red chili powder (to taste), 1 teaspoon
Green chillies (optional)
Bhujiya (as per taste)
Dhania (cilantro / fresh coriander leaves) chutney
Tamarind (imli / tentul) chutney
Procedure:
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, who received this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Academy award along with Dilip Kumar, says the veteran is a colossus in the industry. “The high as always, the meeting with Dilip Saheb, Dilip Kumar, Yusuf Khan! It is tough to see a frail idol admired by millions and my favourite, struggle to move and to recognise familiar faces. Though he always does and has recognised mine. But as always even in his frail health, the charm and grace never ending….Dilip Saheb – a colossus! Once and forever,” Bachchan posted on his blog.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that NCTC “violates” the principle of federalism and the structure adopted for it suffers from “serious and basic flaws”.
Referring to Emergency days, Kumar said that if such powers are given to a secret intelligence agency of the Central government, they will remain prone to misuse against political rivals and asked the government to immediately withdraw it.
L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited (LTMRL) has selected Keolis SA of France as an O&M contractor for operating and maintaining the Hyderabad Metro Rail System (HMRS).
It has been decided to involve Keolis during the formative stage of the project in order to take advantage of the French company’s expertise in metro rail operations and maintenance. Besides, early involvement would give sufficient time to Keolis to review the detailed design and accordingly recruit and train the manpower.
Keolis will also be helpful in testing, commissioning and trial runs of the HMRS.
List of formation of Pradesh Congress committee has reached New Delhi. Pradesh Congress committee president Mr. B Satyanarayana is against formation of Jumbo jet board. 5 vice presidents and 7 general secretaries are likely to be nominated. It has been learnt from the highly placed sources that, Pradesh Congress committee president who stayed in Delhi for 3 days has submitted the list of party candidates for 18 assembly constituencies and 1 Lok Sabha bye elections and also the list of Pradesh Congress Committee to the party High Command.
Pakistan’s former captain Mohammad Yousuf is in trouble as he is being investigated by the Bangladesh intelligence agencies for allegedly submitting a fake clearance letter to play in the Dhaka league.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has handed over the matter to the intelligence agencies after participating clubs in the Dhaka Premier League which remains suspended refused to resume playing in the event until the Yousuf matter was resolved.
The BCB had to step in after Yousuf appeared for the Victoria sporting club in the league against Abhani club on March 28.
The interviewing process is the time when your potential employer would be interested in finding out what all you have accomplished in previous jobs as well as what all you have failed at. Many candidates hide their previous job failures, fearing rejection. Can acknowledging previous job failures portray you as an incompetent candidate, not fit enough to join the company you are being interviewed for?
The answer may not be a simple ‘yes’ and would be evaluated in the wider context, believe experts.
The imbroglio over the telecast of Milan Luthria’s unabashed mock-biopic on the life and libido of a sleaze star, has now gone into a full-fledged discussion on whether films that are accorded an ‘A’ certificate by the censorboard should be screened at prime-time on television even after re-vision and re-censorship at the highest levels.
Sources from the Information & Broadcasting Ministry inform that a decision has been taken to prevent all films with an ‘A’ or a ‘UA'(suitable to be seen under parental guidance) certificate to be screened during daytime.
Naked body scanners could soon be a reality in the UK as scientists have declared them safe, reported Daily Mail.
An EU study concluded that the risk from the scanners, which uses X-Rays to scan through passengers’ clothes is ‘close to zero’.
The European Commission is expected to approve the technology and the scanners could be rules out in UK airports.
A Manchester Airport spokesperson said they were waiting for this report from EU because the UK and US governments had carried similar tests and concluded the same findings.
A meeting which was scheduled to be held on Sunday, May 6, by All India Tameer-e-Millat Study Circle has been postponed on account of organisation of Syed Khaleelullah Husaini Memorial Lecture.
Siasat news
Saudi Arabia frets that Egypt, its strongest Arab ally and a major recipient of Saudi funding, is falling under what it sees as the baleful influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Riyadh recalled its ambassador from Cairo at the weekend in a spat that underlines the misgivings of the robed princes who rule the world’s top oil exporter and who have watched Egypt’s revolution and its often chaotic aftermath with alarm.
A delegation led by deputy mayor Hyderabad G Rajkumar, T Srinivas Reddy son of MLA Musheerabad T Manima and Bholakpur ward corporator S Mohammad Wajid Husain called on state Home minister Mrs. Sabita Indira Reddy at her residence and submitted a detailed memorandum demanding quashing of cases against the innocent Muslim youth held during Hanuman Jayanthi in 2010 at Musheerabad assembly constituency.
Influential American Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has told Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that his country is a failed state and no amount of US aid money will ever change that.
“It is becoming increasingly clear to Members of the US Congress that Pakistan is a failed
state and no amount of US aid money will ever change that,” Rohrabacher wrote in a letter to Gilani.
In his letter, Rohrabacher condemned a recent police action that resulted in the death of four Baluchi men.
Several Indian-Americans are among 107 people charged in Medicare fraud schemes involving $450 million in false billings uncovered in an operation across seven cities in the largest US bust in recent history.
Top US law enforcement officials announced the charges were filed in seven metropolitan areas, capping an investigation of several months into efforts to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programmes for senior citizens.
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday said her party was yet to decide on the ensuing presidential polls and nobody had approached her so far on the issue.
“AIADMK has not taken a stand yet and no one has approached me with a proposal so far,” she told reporters here while leaving for Delhi to attend the meeting on NCTC, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
She said she was going to the national capital only to attend the conference and had “no other plans.”
The unmanned aircraft targeted Dar-i-Nishtar residential region in Shawal area, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan early Saturday, killing ten people and injuring several others.
The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, in the US drone strikes have strained relations between the two allies, prompting Pakistani officials to send warnings to the US administration over the assaults.
Slamming the Centre for taking a unilateral decision on formation of NCTC, key UPA ally and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said such institutions “upset” the federal structure of the country and was “not acceptable” to the state.
She said setting up of institutions like National Counter Terrorism Centre with the proposed powers of arrest and seizure upsets the federal structure of the country and strongly urged the central government to withdraw order on its formation.
Omar Abdullah could have tweeted live proceedings of the chief ministers’ conference meet in New Delhi on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) Saturday but the fear of being asked to leave the venue has prevented him from doing so.
In a tweet on Saturday morning, the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister posted on Twitter: “NCTC meeting today. Would have live tweeted the proceedings but I’d probably be turfed out from Vigyan Bhavan.”
Jammu and Kashmir is one of the worst terrorism-hit states. Tens of thousands have died in the state since 1989 in the violence.
President Pratibha Patil came in close contact with a cheetah and caressed it during a visit to a conservation project for the endangered big cats near here.
Patil, who is here on an official visit, drove down to the project of the Cheetah Outreach Friday evening to see for herself the work being done in South Africa for conserving the fastest land animal.
Axis Bank ATM thief arrested
(Siasat News): Car mechanic Fareed Khan, 20, working as Khan Brothers, Masab tank was arrested on Friday for stealing Rs. 5.10 lakh from an Axis Bank ATM at Banjara Hills Road No.1 on April 24.
Humayun Nagar police has arrested him earlier for possessing a stolen laptop and 6 cellphones. He stole the money from ATM to clear his loans and go abroad.
A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile work environment” after her conversion, according to a judge’s order issued Friday.
Susann Bashir, a 41-year-old married mother, sued AT&T unit Southwestern Bell for what she said was a pattern of offensive and discriminatory conduct by her supervisors that began when she converted to Islam in 2005, six years after she started working for the company as a network technician.
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said her party was yet to decide on the ensuing presidential polls and nobody had approached her so far on the issue.
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
“AIADMK has not taken a stand yet and no one has approached me with a proposal so far,” she told reporters. She said she is in the national capital only to attend the conference and had “no other plans.”