Why should the Congress party be hitched to the Nehru-Gandhi family like train compartments to the engine was how the late PV Narasimha Rao reacted to the suggestion that Sonia Gandhi be made the Congress chief after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in May, 1991.
This has been stated by veteran Congressman Arjun Singh in his soon-to-be-released posthumous autobiography ‘A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time’.
Almost two million people scattered through 11 states, from Indiana to Delaware and the American capital, were still without electricity Tuesday for the fourth day, putting a damper on Wednesday’s Independence Day holiday.
The weatherman too offered no respite to sweating citizens, forecasting blistering temperatures and issuing extreme heat warnings for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Tuesday test-fired a number of intermediate range ballistic missiles as part of a large-scale training exercise.
“Dozens of rockets” of various ranges and types were fired, including Shahab-1, 2 and 3 ballistic missiles in the exercise named “Great Prophet 7”, Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
The targets for the missiles were simulated military bases of a potential enemy, located in the deserts in Semnan province in the north of the country.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha says her father, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha is hale and hearty.
“Making mountains out of mole hills (baat ka batangadh) about someones health is NOT cool. My father is hale and hearty and waiting for me at HOME and not in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) as some people are claiming on TV right now. Thanks for the concern, but pls… KHAMOSH!!” Sonakshi tweeted.
Shatrughan Sinha was admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Monday afternoon following respiratory allergic reaction. Reports suggested that the veteran actor was admitted to ICU.
In a macabre incident, a 13-year-old girl was drugged and one of her legs chopped off to propitiate a deity with her blood in Purnia district. Two woman sorcerers, with the help of a male aide, amputated Babli Kumari’s leg with a chopper at Barbela village on Monday night on the belief that worshipping the deity with blood of a virgin girl brings good fortune, Superintendent of Police Amit Lodha said on Tuesday.
The girl, who was battling for life in the Sadar hospital, had gone to meet the sorcerers for help to treat her ailing brother.
The nomination of ruling United Progressive Alliance candidate Pranab Mukherjee for the presidential poll was accepted Tuesday, and the plea by his opponent P.A Sangma to disqualify him on the ground that he was holding an office of profit rejected.
“Pranab Mukherjee’s nomination has been accepted… resignation from Indian Statistical Institute was valid,” Mukherjee’s election agent and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told reporters.
As promised in its party manifesto, the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday entitled MLAs to purchase four-wheelers worth upto Rs. 20 lakh from their local area development fund, which was also increased by Rs. 25 lakh. “Despite a financial crisis, the SP government has fulfilled all the promises it made in the party manifesto in the budget. We entitle MLAs to purchase vehicles upto Rs. 20 lakh from their local area development fund”, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav announced in the state Assembly.
A major haul of weapons and ammunition belonging to the LTTE has been discovered by the Sri Lankan police in the terror group’s former stronghold of Kilinochchi in the north of the country.
Over 250,000 rounds of live T56 bullets, over 190,000 rounds of MPMP bullets, anti-aircraft gun bullets, 81 mm mortars and claymore bombs were among the cache found hidden in an abandoned water well, the Kilinochchi police said.
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Salman is again in the news for all wrong reasons. A magazine report claims that Salman Khan beat up Katrina Kaif when she walked in wearing a “figurehugging, cleavage-revealing dress that showed too much skin.” Katrina’s friend vehemently denies the incident saying the report is completely untrue.
The report says that Salman Khan has beaten Katrina Kaif with a stick when she wore short and revealing clothes. He abused her and beaten Kat with a stick.
Why should the Congress party be hitched to the Nehru-Gandhi family like train compartments to the engine was how the late PV Narasimha Rao reacted to the suggestion that Sonia Gandhi be made the Congress chief after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in May, 1991.
This has been stated by veteran Congressman Arjun Singh in his soon-to-be-released posthumous autobiography ‘A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time’.
Former prime minister AB Vajpayee wanted to induct APJ Abdul Kalam as a minister in the NDA government in 1998, an offer Kalam declined, four years before he became the President in 2002.
The revelation was made by the former President in his recent book “Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges”.
He said his decision to decline the Cabinet position enabled him to contribute to two major programmes that gave “spectacular” results to the nation.
Kalam, who was then the DRDO chief, recalls that he got a phone call on the midnight of 15th March, 1998 from Vajpayee.
Mexico has activated a national emergency plan to contain a bird flu epidemic that has affected nearly 1.7 million poultry, the agriculture ministry said.
The plan was set in motion last week after authorities confirmed the existence of the H7N3 virus in the towns of Tepatitlan and Acatic in the western state of Jalisco, Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying Monday.
Although the outbreak is now concentrated in the two towns, the plan “will be activated throughout the country to prevent the spread of the disease”, it added.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said there has been a decline in cooperation activities and “it’s not business as usual with Pakistan”.
“No, it’s not business as usual. We have seen a decline in cooperation activities during recent months which I strongly regret,” the EuAsia News quoted Rasmussen as saying.
“I think it is of mutual interest to have a close cooperation between Pakistan and NATO,” he added.
“I still hope that we will see a reopening of the transit routes in not a too distant future,” he told a press conference here Monday.
A major haul of weapons and ammunition belonging to the LTTE has been discovered by the Sri Lankan police in the terror group’s former stronghold of Kilinochchi in the north of the country.
Over 250,000 rounds of live T56 bullets, over 190,000 rounds of MPMP bullets, anti-aircraft gun bullets, 81 mm mortars and claymore bombs were among the cache found hidden in an abandoned water well, the Kilinochchi police said.
Kilinochchi was the seat of the LTTE’s parallel administration in their three decades old fight with the government troops.
Telecom tribunal TDSAT on Tuesday gave a split verdict in the 3G intra-circle roaming case with its Chairman allowing operators’ plea against the government order to stop the service, while its member dismissed it.
The two member bench comprising its Chairman Justice S B Sinha and Member P K Rastogi differed in theirs findings.
Justice Sinha allowed the telecom operators’ plea against the government’s directive to stop intra circle 3G roaming saying that it was violative of natural justice.
Rastogi, however, dismissed telecom operators plea saying they cannot provide roaming.
The rupee gained a hefty 57 paise to move past the 55 level against the dollar for the first time in nearly four weeks on sustained capital inflows amid government measures to revive the economy, and continued selling of the American currency by exporters.
The local unit opened marginally higher at 55.41 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, and rose by 57 paise to trade at 54.86, a level last seen on June 7.
The rupee had ended 18 paise higher at 55.43 against the dollar following sustained selling of the American currency by exporters and some banks in yesterday’s trade.
Photo session is being organised at RDO office Charminar mandal for issuance of smart card from July 2 to 5, from 10:30 am to 5 pm.
All new and old pensioners are requested to make their photograph by arriving at mandal office along with original ration card and pension pass book.
Siasat news
Secretary Minority Welfare Department Dana Kishore has directed collectors of 12 districts to allot land for English medium residential schools, so that buildings can be constructed for English medium residential schools to be established for minorities.
He told that a review meet will soon be convened in this regard. Former state minister Mohammad Ali Shabbir had made representation on the issue.
It must be noted that decision had been taken to set up English medium residential schools in 12 districts by GO MS 20, dated July 17, 2007.
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Hyderabad DEO has informed that the Teachers Transfer Counseling for school head master, school assistants, language pandit and TTs will be conducted as per schedule on July 4 & 5, at Mahboobia Girls’ High School, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad.
The details are as follows:
July 4: schools assistants, LFL, NM and BDs (Telugu, Urdu and English Media)
July 5: SGTs, Language pandits, PTs, craft, music etc. (Telugu, Urdu and English Media)
Egypt, land of the Nile, splendour of the pharaohs and now remembered through the majestic pyramids is birthplace of one of the oldest civilizations of the world. It marked a historic event June 30 when Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as the first democratically elected president of his country in Cairo. The long three decade Hosni Mubarak era has come to a symbolic end with the assumption of office by Morsi – a former Muslim Brotherhood leader who represents the common man of Egypt – in contrast to the kings and military dictators who ruled Egypt for the last century.
Why should the Congress party be hitched to the Nehru-Gandhi family like train compartments to the engine was how the late P V Narasimha Rao reacted to the suggestion that Sonia Gandhi be made the Congress chief after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in May, 1991.
This has been stated by veteran Congressman Arjun Singh in his soon-to-be-released posthumous autobiography ‘A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time’.
Spanish players carried the Euro 2012 championship trophy back to their native land Monday, ready to accept a hero`s welcome and lead their economically troubled nation in a second night of jubilant celebration.
Team captain and goalie Iker Casillas proudly held the tournament cup as he emerged from the plane in Madrid with coach Vicente del Bosque a day after the soccer team`s crushing 4-0 win over Italy. The Iberia plane that brought them from Kiev bore the logo “proud of our national team.”
India’s 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations.
The Western Ghats mountain chain is recognised as one of the world’s eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity. The chain’s forests, which are older than the Himalaya mountains influence the Indian monsoon weather pattern.
After almost 14 years, Sridevi is returning to the big screen with R Balki`s `English Vinglish`, but the actress has chosen to play the role of a housewife, struggling with the language.
In the first look of the film, directed by Gauri Shinde, the Bollywood diva has sported a de-glam look and is clad in a carrot coloured sari like a simple middle class woman.
The trailer of the film begins with Sridevi reading from the film (censor) certificate spread out like wallpaper with her back facing the viewer. Sridevi starts struggling with reading the words.
Increasing the number of cups of coffee you drink daily could lower your risk of developing the most common form of skin cancer, a new study has claimed, but cautioned that one should not start consuming the beverage excessively based on this finding.
Researchers at Brigham and Women`s Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston found that people who drank more cups of caffeinated coffee had a reduced risk of developing basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer which causes considerable morbidity despite being a slow-grower.