The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday directed to place a writ petition filed against famous cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha before the division bench dealing with PIL matters on May 7.
The petition, filed by a local lawyer Ashok Pandey on May 2 had sought direction for quashing the recent nomination of Sachin Tendulkar to the Upper House.
Wife: Woh admi jo drink kar raha hai, Usko maine 10 saal pehle shadi ke liye inkaar kia tha. Dekho who aaj tak sharab pee raha hai!
Husband: Wow! itni lambi celebration!
Kashmir’s mufti azam (grand cleric) Mufti Muhammad Bashir-ud-din has demanded a legislation to declare the Ahmadi sect as “non-Muslims”.
The demand was unanimously made by the Muslim religious leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Personal Board in a meeting convened and headed by the grand cleric on May 2, 2012.
Sardar : O banno car ki speed itni kyon badha di?
Banno : Oji car ki break fail ho gayi hai, accident ho jaye iske pehle ghar pahunch jaate hain….!
Gold prices rose by Rs 55 to touch fresh all-time high of Rs 29,750 per 10 grams in the bullion market here Friday on sustained buying from stockists and investors even though the metal declined in global markets.
Silver, on the other hand, remained under selling pressure and declined by Rs 300 to Rs 55,900 per kg on lack of buying support.
Traders said sustained buying by stockists and investors along with a weakening rupee pushed the gold’s prices to scale new height even though globally the yellow metal prices were down.
In an attempt to find a consensus candidate in the presidential election of July 2012, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s SP has reached out to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool for a tie-up. Sources said both parties had agreed to join hands on this issue.
However, the two ruling parties — the SP in UP and the Trinamool in West Bengal — which have good numbers in the electoral college for the presidential poll, have decided to wait for the choice of the Congress candidate.
The arrival of his bonny baby boy a few months ago was an event in itself. And now, in addition to Azad Rao Khan, who is quite a handful and more, Aamir Khan has Talaash, Dhoom 3 and a lot more up his sleeve. It’s a full house indeed. Over multiple rounds of piping hot tea and scrumptious snacks, Aamir Khan bares it all to Mirror.
It’s in our basic nature to reach for a large portion when hungry. Therefore, workouts apart, it’s a must to keep high-satiety food options available at hand, simply for the times when you feel those hunger pangs.
Drug major Cipla has slashed by up to 76% the prices of certain life-saving cancer drugs used in the treatment of brain, lung and kidney cancer.
The move comes on the back of the government allowing domestic firm Natco Pharma to sell generic version of cancer drug Nexavar at nearly 97% lower price than charged by patent-holder Bayer Corporation. In March, the Indian Patent Controller cleared Natco’s application to sell the drug at Rs 8,880 for a month’s treatment, as compared to Rs 2.8 lakh per month charged by Bayer for its patented Nexavar drug.
The number of suicide by farmers has gone down in the country, the government stated in the Lok Sabha.
Minister of state for finance Namo Narain Meena informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that due to several measures taken by the government the cases had fallen.
“As far as farmer suicides are concerned, there has been a fall in the numbers in Andhra Pradesh, also in Karnataka and Maharashtra. In Uttar Pradesh it was nil last year,” Meena said.
9th All India conference of All India Muslim Educational Society will be held on May 5 and 6 at Jaipur.
Justice Fatima Bibi former governor Tamilnadu will inaugurate the conference on May 5 at BM Birla auditorium, Statue Circle, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
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A 47-year-old schoolteacher from Howrah was hauled up for showing pornographic material on his mobile phone to students. Bally resident Debasis Das, who taught English at Belur High School, was arrested on Thursday after parents lodged a complaint against him. Das was also suspended from the school immediately.
The Indian rupee crashed to an all-time low of Rs53.77 against the US dollar this morning even as modest intervention by the country’s central bank yesterday failed to stem the rupee’s slide.
Katrina Kaif and Aamir Khan are getting ready to fight. Before you get the wrong idea, the two superstars will slug it out in what promises to be Bollywood’s most daredevil climax scene yet, in the upcoming Yash Raj Films’ biggie, Dhoom 3 . “ The climax sequence of Dhoom 3 will feature Aamir and Katrina in an extended fight sequence. The USP of the fight is that not many Bollywood flicks feature man- woman combat scenes. It is normal watching the hero bashing up a villain in a film’s finalé but this will be unprecedented in a way,” an industry source said.
Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) aims to connect 500,000 homes in the Kingdom with optical fiber for high-speed broadband, but a lack of spectrum is limiting the adoption of next-generation mobile services, a top executive said.
Saudi Arabia’s 26.5 million people had 1.95 million fixed broadband subscriptions at the end of 2011, according to the telecoms regulator, while of these only 18,500 are high-speed fiber-to-the-home (FFTH) connections, Informa Telecoms and Media estimates.
Readers! We are introducing to you a stage which has become a matter of admonition for the onlookers.
On a tip-off our correspondent went to visit a function hall where a magnificent stage costing lakhs of rupees was being prepared for bride and groom. It was found out that it was the valima ceremony of son of a famous businessman.
45 men were busy decorating the stage. Not only the stage but every corner of the function hall was being beautifully and delicately decorated.
Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday, May 3, approved law amendment to make insulting God or Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) punishable by death, sparking a heated debate about the freedom of expression in tiny Gulf Arab country.
“We do not want to execute people with opinions or thought because Islam respects these people,” opposition lawmaker Ali al-Deqbasi told parliament, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
“But we need this legislation because incidents of cursing God have increased. We need to deter them.”
The Oil Ministry has hiked the penalty it wants to impose on Reliance Industries and its British partner BP plc for falling natural gas output from KG-D6 fields, by 18 percent to USD 1.46 billion.
The Ministry had previously wanted to disallow USD 1.235 billion expenditure that RIL had incurred on putting production facilities at the Bay of Bengal gas fields but in the 7-page notice it sent to the company on May 2, the cost to be disallowed was put at USD 1.462 billion, sources privy to the development said.
The general body meeting of Elders’ Think Tank will be held on Wednesday, May 9, at 6:30 pm at Madina Education Centre, Nampally near Hajj House. President Think Tank Mr. Asif Pasha former minister will preside over. Mr. Bhasker Bini advocate and joint secretary will present the report of earlier meeting and other moves.
According to the report of Mr. Syed Asif secretary and correspondent Alliance International High School, Golconda, Mr. Syed Arif Principal School will leave for London visit on the invitation of Oxford University counselor Mr. Peter Watson.
He will attend various programmes, seminars and discussions and also review the education system of Oxford University.
The main purpose of Mr. Arif’s London visit is to ensure implementation of educational programmes initiated by the Oxford University on school levels at Alliance School Golconda.
He will return home on May 14.
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If obese people with Type 2 diabetes lose even six kilos, it will reduce their arterial stiffness by 20 percent and also the risk of heart attacks, a study reveals.
Diabetes carries a six-fold greater risk of heart disease, which counts for 68 percent of all deaths among people with diabetes, thanks to hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis).
Welcoming the release of 1.32 crore rupees by the government as compensation to the Sangareddy riot victims, Congress MLC Mr. Farooq Husain termed chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy as minority friendly and demanded that the government take stringent action against those who disrupted the peaceful atmosphere.
Osama bin Laden seemed frustrated with the local jihadi groups that caused sufferings on the Muslims and urged them to abort such attacks and instead focus on the US, documents seized by US forces from his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan a year ago say.
“He (bin Laden) is at pain advising them to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and focus on the United States, ‘our desired goal’.
Iran begins runoff Parliamentary Elections Tehran: Iran on Friday began runoff elections for more than one-fifth of the seats in Parliament, state TV reported.
The report said 130 hopefuls were competing for 65 seats in 33 constituencies, including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Of 50 hopefuls in Tehran, 29 are from opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tehran has 30 representatives in the 290-seat Parliament. Five of them were decided in the first round.
Osama bin Laden ordered suicide squads to be created in Pakistan and Afghanistan to track down US President Barack Obama and then NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus, according to a treasure trove of his letters.
Bin Laden’s directions about Obama and Petraeus come in a May 2010 letter, one of 17 released by the US military’s West Point Combating Terrorism Centre from the documents captured in the raid on the Al Qaeda leader’s hideout in Pakistan last May.