Two Pakistani infiltrators, riding a motorcycle, today “inadvertently” crossed over Indo-Pak border and were arrested close to a forward Border Out Post (BoP) in Jammu district.
The two youth crossed the Zeroline along International Border (IB) and landed up close to three-tier border fencing in Tubewell-4 BoP in Karotana Khurd forward belt in R S Pura this morning, BSF officials said.
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Congress leader Digvijay Singh today said the RSS and its affliate organisations were continuing to support yoga guru Ramdev and Anna Hazare and would back them even during elections.
“Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare had and will continue to have the support of the Sangh Parivar. Even during elections these people have been supportive of them (Sangh),” Singh told reporters.
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today lamented that the society did not have enough icons to inspire people through their conduct and way of life.
Speaking at a meeting to mourn the demise of BJP vice president Bal Apte, he said not many activists are left in public life who inculcate confidence among their followers by leading from the front and laying down examples of their own life to be emulated by others.
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Former Minister Gade Venkat Reddy feared that the prospects of development of Andhra Pradesh would be vanished if separate Telangana State is formed.
Telangana Students’ Joint Action Committee has planned a two-month long protest to spread awareness about Telangana statehood among people in the region.
Disclosing the details before the media after the Students’ JAC meeting in the Osmania University campus on Sunday, TSJAC chairman P Ravi said that the committee has decided to organise membership drive from August 1 to 7th and “Go To College” program from August 8 to 15th.
Four highway robbers have waylaid a couple at Bonglur ORR under Vanasthalipuram police limits and relieved the housewife of her gold ornaments weighing three tolas.
According to the police, Narasimha and Sunita were returning on bike from Ravirala village under Ibrahimpatnam mandal after attending a function when the desperadoes waylaid the couple at Bonglur ORR and snatched the jewellery of the housewife. They said the culprits brutally assaulted Narasimha and threatened to kill him if he screamed for help or complained to the police and snatched 30 gram gold chain from his wife.
Police have identified two persons, who allegedly harassed a love-couple at Bhavanapadu under Santabommali mandal in this district on Saturday.
Police said the two were identified as Komara Ravi and Adla Durvasulu. They have intensified their search for the two. The two are charged with making the girl undress before her boy friend. Villagers told the media that the duo was earlier also resorted to such heinous acts. They said that if the two were found, they would themselves hand them over to the police.
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has said that his government was determined to develop government schools on par with the corporate educational institutions in terms of quality education and infrastructure.
The Chief Minister continued his Indiramma Baata in the district for the third day on Sunday. He visited the Social Welfare Residential School here and interacted with the students.
Speaking on the occasion, Kiran said that his government’s endeavour would be not only to improve facilities in government schools, but also get better results.
APSRTC Vice Chairmen and Managing Director Abdul Khayyum Khan assured that the corporation would avail the services of Physicians who could examine the health of drivers and prescribe them to stay fit and healthy.
wo men were detained and assaulted by policemen in the Pakistani capital for having a soft drink at a popular tourist spot during the period of fasting in the Islamic holy month of Ramzan.
The two men – Anwar Abbas and Malik Saeed – were detained while they were having a soft drink inside a car at Daman-e-Koh, a viewpoint overlooking Islamabad, on Friday afternoon.
The incident was reported to Islamabad police chief Bani Yamin, who assured action will be taken against the officials involved in the incident, the Dawn newspaper reported today.
Some people of a local community allegedly thrashed a person in Birai village near Jodhpur claiming that his son had raped a girl of their community, police said here today.
According to Kishan Lal, SHO (Kherapa), some people of ‘Nat’ community blackened Lala Ram’s face, cut his hair and moustache and dragged him behind a motorcycle on Thursday evening, after they couldn’t find his son Hasti Ram who they claim had raped a girl of their community on Wednesday.
Yoga guru Ramdev today came under attack from Team Anna as he shared the stage with Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad and said he found no basis for allegations of corruption in Gujarat.
“Everybody is asking me about corruption in Gujarat, but I couldn’t find anything of this sort.
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Tensions flared between the US and Pakistan as two top officials traded accusations of doing too little to combat Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The New York Post reported.
The tart exchange between Douglas E. Lute, President Barack Obama’s top adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, took place during a conference in Aspen, Colorado, Friday.
Sahara Force India failed to score a point at the Hungarian Grand Prix held here Sunday, with its drivers finishing 11th and 12th.
Former GP2 champion Nico Hulkenberg failed to earn the final championship point despite starting 10th on the grid, ending the race at 11th, 57.2 seconds behind race winner Lewis Hamilton of McLaren.
British driver Paul di Resta finished where he started, 12th, 5.6 seconds behind his teammate.
Di Resta is 13th in the driver’s championship table with 27 points while German teammate Hulkenberg lurks in 16th place with 19 points.
Seven people were killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan Sunday.
The drone fired four missiles at a suspected militant hideout in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, Xinhua quoted the local Urdu channel Dunya TV as saying.
Feminine charm is a measurable phenomenon, scientists have established, with women who employ it enjoying the most success in negotiations, The Independent reported Sunday.
Results from the first academic study of the technique shows that it can increase success rates in negotiations with both men and women by as much as a third.
Effective feminine charm combines flirtation with friendliness and women who get it right can get around 20 percent off the price of a car, according to the study.
India Sunday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a defence base in Odisha, an official said. It has a range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead of up to 300 kg.
The missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur in Balasore district, about 230 km from here. “It was an experimental repeat of a previous version,” M.V.K.V. Prasad, director of the test range, told IANS.
Kazakhstan’s teenage prodigy Zulfiya Chinshanlo powered her way to a weightlifting gold in the 53kg category Sunday, breaking her own world record in the clean and jerk.
The 19-year-old posted a snatch of 95 kg before making history with 131 kg in the clean and jerk, one kilogram more than her effort at last year’s world championships.
The total of 226 kg gave a seven-kilo winning margin ahead of Hsu Shu-Ching of Chinese Taipei, who took the silver, and Moldova’s Cristina Iovu, who won the bronze.
Hsu was awarded the silver over Iovu due to a lesser bodyweight.
The Congress Sunday took dim view of party MP Vijay Darda’s remarks at a function in Ahmedabad terming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a “lion” and will seek a report from the party’s state in-charge.
Party sources said that Gujarat in-charge Mohan Prakash will be asked for a report.
Congress MP from Maharashtra Vijay Darda today praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s style of functioning and called him a “tiger”.
“Modi’s commitment and dedication towards work bears resemblance to that of a tiger,” Darda, who shared dais with Modi at an award ceremony here, said.
India’s champion shuttler Saina Nehwal had an easy outing and Jai Bhagwan joined his more illustrious team mate Vijender Singh in the round of 16 but the archers, paddlers and shooters fell by the wayside at the 2012 London Games here Sunday.
Saina, India’s best bet for an Olympic medal, won her first group match against Switzerland’s Sabrina Jaquet in straight games in the women’s singles badminton event. The World No.5, a quarterfinalist at the Beijing Games, won 21-9, 21-4 in 24 minutes at the Wembley Arena.
Nepal Sunday reported an increase in the number of its tigers.
According to the latest census report released on the occasion of World Tiger Day Sunday, Nepal has 176 tigers, 21 more than the previous official count.
The 2010 census found 155 tigers, Xinhua reported.
Nepal is among the 13 tiger range countries.
The World Wide Fund for Nature WWF), an international NGO, has urged the governments to raise efforts to curb poaching, a major threat to wild tigers.
India is home to most of the world’s wild tigers, with about 1,700 animals.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has apologised to the family of a woman who died hours after workmen turned her hospital room into a building site.
According to her son, an hour before June Barnett, 76, lost her battle with pneumonia at the hospital, three builders pushed her bed out of the way to drill holes in the wall. They slung her medical drip over the back of a chair, Daily Express reported.
While paying an unexpected visit to his mother on the morning of her death, Colin Barnett said he was appalled to notice the men installing an entertainment station above her head.
Expectations are surging once again as India’s golden boy Abhinav Bindra, along with compatriot Gagan Narang, will take the range at the Royal Artillery Barracks Monday to defend the men’s 10metre air rifle gold he won four years ago in Beijing.
As per the current form of the world’s best shooters, a qualification score of 598 should easily get Abhinav and Gagan into the finals, meaning they have the liberty to shoot two shots each on the ninth ring out of the 60 shots.
From garnering overwhelming TRPs to getting prominence on social networking websites, the impact of Aamir Khan’s maiden TV show “Satyamev Jayate” has been colossal. The talk show, which started with the issue of female foeticide, traversed over various burning social issues informing, educating, sensitising and touching audiences’ hearts and ended its 13-week journey Sunday with the spotlight on the right to equality.
The show went on air May 6 and in episodes after episode, Aamir brought forth unknown facts related to child sex abuse, medical malpractice, manual scavenging and dowry.
Film producer Kumar Taurani is set to launch his son Girish in a musical opposite Shruti Haasan.
“The film will be a musical love story and Prabhu Deva will direct it. We will start preparations from August 1. We have not finalised on the name for the film yet,” he told IANS.
“We will be shooting the film abroad as well as Mumbai, Pune, and some parts of Himachal Pradesh,” he added.
The producer confirmed that the film is a remake of a southern movie and that they are looking at a March-April release next year.