Isolated Rain occurred over Coastal Andhra Pradesh while weather has been mainly dry over Telangana and Rayalaseema. A bulletin from Meteorological Centre here today said Mangalgiri, Tenali in Guntur District and Vijayawada in Krishna district received a rainfall of one cm each. Forecast and Farmers’ weather bulletin valid until the morning of June 27, 2012, indicated isolated rain or thundershowers would occur over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema and Telangana.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Presidential Candidate backed by AIADMK, BJD and BJP-led NDA, P A Sangma, today met YSR Congress Party Honourary Chairman Y S Vijayamma and sought her party’s support to him for the post of President.
Heavy rain triggered flash floods and mudslides in parts of China leaving 16 people dead and 8 million affected. Water levels in major rivers and reservoirs have surpassed the danger levels. Relief operations are underway. 26,000 people have been evacuated. The Local Met department has forecast more rainfall on Tuesday.
America’s relationship with Pakistan on the issue of visas and the treatment being meted out to its diplomat serving in this South Asian nation has been a complicated one, even as the two countries have made some progress in this regard, a US official said on Monday.
“It has been complicated,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters when asked about increase in instances of harassment to US diplomats in Pakistan as reported by an official State Department report.
The United States Tuesday said that it is playing its part in the Indian effort to bring to justice all those who were responsible for terrorist attack in Mumbai in November 2008.
“We have been doing what we can to share information and support the Indian efforts to bring folks to justice,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters.
Responding to a question, Nuland said the US is aware of the reports that one of the suspected planners of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai has been arrested.
A team of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which has expressed disappointment over recommendations of a panel report over inclusion of new areas in the proposed hill council here, will meet Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in Delhi on Tuesday.
GJM general secretary Roshan Giri today said a five-member delegation led by party president Bimal Gurung might also meet Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee the same day.
“We will take up with the Home Minister the Justice (Retd) Shyamal Sen Committee report”, Giri said.
Indian companies are interested in investing in various businesses in Indonesia’s East Java province, especially in steel, textile, education and human resource development sectors, a top Indian official has said.
India’s Ambassador to Indonesia Gurjit Singh said this to H. Soekarwo, governor of East Java, during a visit to provincial capital Surabaya, also the second largest city in the country, the Indian embassy said in a statement.
A 30-year-old woman jumped before a runing train with her two children in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district Monday, killing all the three, police said.
The incident occurred around 8 a.m. near Deeppura in the district, some 250 km from here. The family was resident of Jitsiya village.
“The bodies of Manju Devi, her eight-year-old daughter Khusbu and there-year-old son Deepak were found in a mutilated condition on the railway tracks,” a police official said.
Russia has accused the US of being the world’s biggest importer of trafficked humans
The Russian foreign ministry said Monday that the US which has accused Russia of insufficient effort in combating human trafficking is itself the world’s biggest importer of trafficked humans.
Russia has been marked a Tier 2 Watch List country in the Trafficking in Persons Report 2012 by the US State Department. According to the report released last week, up to one million people in Russia could qualify for victims of human trafficking.
Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit and former beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen were honoured for individual excellence in the field of acting and entrepreneurship respectively here Monday night.
While Sushmita was honoured with woman entrepreneur award for successfully running her organisation –I AM SHE, Madhuri was conferred with platinum diva award, at Planman Media’s Powerbrands Hall of Fame awards held at Kingdom of Dreams.
At least eight people were killed and 25 injured following two bomb blasts in different cities near Baghdad Monday night, said police sources.
At least three people were killed and four wounded when a blast occurred on the roadside in a popular pet market in Diyala province’s Baquba city, near Baghdad, reported Xinhua quoting a police source.
In a separate incident, as many as five people were killed and 21 wounded when a sticky bomb attached to a mini-bus detonated in Hilla city in Babil province, about 100 km from Baghdad, said another police source.
The US has not determined the ouster of Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo by impeachment as a coup in the South American nation but is closely following the events there, the US State Department has said.
Responding to a question about whether Washington has determined the impeachment constitutes a coup, spokesperson Victoria Nuland said: “We have not.”
Actress Kristen Stewart says she hated going to school because she was teased by school bullies for not shaving her legs.
“I hated school so much. Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother’s clothes, dude! Not like I cared that much, but I remember being made fun of, because I was not wearing designer jeans.
“I did not even think about it. I wore my gym clothes. But it is not like I didn’t care that they made fun of me. It really bothered me,” dailystar.co.uk quoted the 22-year-old as saying.
The rampant drug abuse in modern Russia can be traced to the rock band Beatles and their experiments with psychedelics, a psychoactive drug, the country’ top substance abuse official has said.
“After the Beatles travelled to Indian ashrams to expand their consciousness, they introduced the idea of changing your mental condition through drugs to the populace,” Yevgeny Bryun said.
“When business understood that you can sell it all – pleasure and things that accompany it – this was when it all started,” said Bryun, who oversees anti-drug and alcoholism efforts at the health ministry.
(IANS) Deluxe Nirodh, a subsidised condom that originally began as a family planning measure under a government initiative, is now eyeing smaller cities and towns to save the brand’s fading face in a multi-million rupee market by repositioning the product with more “intense” advertisements – albeit not too sexual in content.
The move came after it was found that costlier condoms are cornering a major market share.
(IANS) At least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed Monday in a cross-border attack launched by militants from Afghanistan. Of the total, seven were found beheaded.
The attack took place in Lower Dir region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Geo News reported.
Following the attack, Pakistan summoned the Afghan Charge d’affaires to the Foreign Office in Islamabad, and lodged a strong protest.
Military officials said six Pakistani soldiers were killed and 11 went missing after the militants fired two rockets into Lower Dir. Later, seven of the 11 missing soldiers were found decapitated.
Strongly criticising the Congress Party for not taking steps to help the farmers this khariff season even after the onset of monsoon, the YSR Congress Party today staged dharnas across the State demanding proper supply of agriculture inputs and bank loans. ‘We demand supply of seeds at the marked price besides other agriculture inputs and power supply. The banks should be asked to provide loans and the State should waive the interest arrears,’ party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters here.
The Malkagiri police arrested four member of gang including iron scrap businessmen, out of 10 involved in thefting of copper weighing 11 tones from a vehicle, here today and recovered Rs 45 lakh worth wire from them.
Reigning Asian Games champion and former world championship semi-finalist Joseph G Abraham suffered a serious jolt to his London Olympics berth in the 400metres hurdles, here today. However, Jharkhand’s Deepmala Devi and Rajasthan’s Manju Bala cornered glory by reigning supreme in their respective categories on the third day of the 52nd National inter-State Senior Athletics Championship at GMC Balayogi Stadium here. Deepmala Devi claimed her fifth title in the women’s 20 km walk while Manju won her second successive gold in women hammer throw.
The East Coast Railway (ECR) today decided to introduce a pair of new weekly trains between Shalimar-Chennai-Shalimar with effect from July 3. ECR-Waltair Divisional Official Spokesman here tonight said the pair carries nine sleeper class coaches,two AC 3 Tier coach,one AC 2-Tier coach, four second class coaches and two second class sitting-cum-luggage booking vans. The Train Number 22825 Shalimar-Chennai weekly Super-fast Express will leave Shalimar on every Tuesday with effect from July 3 at 1220 hours.
Sufi singer Tochi Raina, who lent his voice to chartbusters like “Pardesi”, “Gal mitthi mitthi” and “Saibo”, says reality shows have urged the youths towards instant fame and hence, drawn away their patience to learn music under a guru.
“At the age when people should sit, spend time and learn music with a guru, they go on to music reality shows. The format and concept of reality shows is very good, but people want to come in limelight and get popular. This is what makes an artist lose his way,” Raina told IANS.
Controversial godman swami Nithyananda ia again surrounded in one more controversy and this time the controversy is about his Madurai Adheenam Ashram.
One of the disciples of Swami thrashed an old man who wanted to enter Adheenam Path.
Actress Lisa Ray says the flavour of ‘Bombay’ remains unchanged for her even as the city is now called Mumbai.
“All those on auto-correct: I’m a twelve-year long citizen of the Maximum City pre-Mumbai. Flavour unchanged, it’s always Bombay for me,” Lisa tweeted.
The Indo-Canadian actress got engaged to her beau Jason Dehni earlier this year.
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Filmmaker Karan Johar says the next season of “Koffee With Karan” will happen only next year.
Asked if viewers will get to catch up with the spice on Bollywood stars’ lives through the show this year, he told IANS: “Next year only!”
For now, Johar’s hands are full as he is busy with his next directorial “Student Of The Year” and his latest small screen engagement — “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5”. He is judging a reality show for the first time.
–Indo-Asian News Service
If there’s one thing Madhuri Dixit wants as a reward for her dance talent, it is late Hollywood actor-dancer Gene Kelly’s tap dancing shoes.
“I want Gene Kelly’s tap dancing shoes. I know all dancers here in India, but I love his style of dancing. I have never tap danced in my life. So, maybe if I wear his shoes, I’d be able to tap dance,” said Madhuri.
Gene Kelly was a well-known, Academy Award winning multi-faceted personality, who featured in films like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “An American in Paris”.