With the few elected corporators of GHMC declared disqualified by the court in various legal complications, developmental activities in those divisions have come to a standstill. A live example of this is the Borabanda division. Since the report of the corporator being declared disqualified by the court, was aired on TV channels and published in newspapers, the corporator is showing lack of interest in developmental activities in his division.
New Delhi: Is your hair falling, your scalp itchy and those lustrous locks getting sticky this monsoon? Worry not, experts have a host of suggestions, including simple homemade remedies like vinegar and methi seeds, to keep your hair healthy and sorted.
The problems occur because humidity leads to excessive perspiration and the scalp gets oily.
New Delhi: Is your hair falling, your scalp itchy and those lustrous locks getting sticky this monsoon? Worry not, experts have a host of suggestions, including simple homemade remedies like vinegar and methi seeds, to keep your hair healthy and sorted.
The problems occur because humidity leads to excessive perspiration and the scalp gets oily.
Director Madhur Bhandarkar has come out in the open about the controversy over Heroine trailer and says they did not mean to demean anyone. “We have censored it. It has been censored for Dubai and has been passed by the censor board. There are some people who have raised objections. But we did not mean to demean anyone, Dubai is my personal favourite city,” the 43-year-old said.
Normal life was on Wednesday disrupted in the state due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Jharkhand Rajya Panchayat Parishad to demand devolution of power to the three-tier Panchayat Raj system.
National Highways wore a deserted look while the bandh was total in Palamau, Garhwa, Dumka, Sahibganj, Jamtara, Lohardaga, Khunti and Giridih districts, according to reports.
Bandh supporters squatted on the national highway and Grand Trunk Road in Dhanbad, disrupting vehicular traffic as most schools in Ranchi remained closed.
Pregnant women who are overweight or obese affect how their children grow up and develop, at least initially.
A team led by a University of Iowa researcher compared the weight and height of babies born to overweight and obese mothers with those born to normal-weight mothers.
Contrary to expectations, babies of overweight/obese mothers gained less weight and grew less in length than babies of normal-weight women from just after birth to three months, the Journal of Pediatrics reports.
Flash floods claimed nine lives in Madhya Pradesh. The district administration has asked schools to shut down as a precaution. All major rivers are flowing near or above the danger mark.
A high alert has been sounded in Hoshangabad, Sehore and Raisen districts. Many state highways have been closed due to incessant rains.
With rivers like Narmada, Betwa and Tawa flowing above the danger mark, giving rise to a flood-like situation in the state, 50 villages were affected by the flood, out of which condition in 20 of them was alarming.
Madhya Pradesh rains: Nine dead in flash floods
Money stolen from ATM
(Siasat News): An incident of theft took place at the ATM of State Bank of India, Balanagar from where the thieves stole Rs. 5.5. Lakh.
It is said that the branch manager of SBI had lodged a complaint with Balanagar police when he found that a big amount was stolen from the ATM.
Balanagar police has registered and investigations are on.
Dead body recovered from OU campus
Dimple Yadav, the wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Wednesday took oath as a Lok Sabha member from Kannauj. She had won the by-election, caused by her husband’s resignation, unopposed in June.
Along with Yadav, M Raja Mohan Reddy, the newly-elected MP from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, also took oath. Reddy is from the YSR Congress.
They took oath on the first day of Parliament’s monsoon session.
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The Forensic Sciences Laboratory is likely to come out with its report on the Pune blasts on Wednesday. Earlier reports said that ammonium nitrate was used in the explosives.
Four low intensity explosives had rocked Jangli Maharaj road in Pune on August 1 while one was partially detonated and another one was found live and later defused.
Official sources privy to the investigations said that ammonium nitrate, which has been often used by banned terrorist outfits like Indian Mujahideen (IM), was packed inside a steel box.
(Pervez Bari): Mr. Iqbal Ahmad was sworn-in as Chief Information Commissioner, (CIC), of Madhya Pradesh at Raj Bhavan here. The state Governor Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav administered oath of the office of CIC of the state to Mr. Ahmad.
It may be mentioned here that Mr. Iqbal Ahmad is a retired IAS officer of 1974 batch of MP Cadre. He was earlier an Information Commissioner who has now been elevated as Chief Information Commissioner in Madhya Pradesh.
Dimple Yadav, the wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Wednesday took oath as a Lok Sabha member from Kannauj. She had won the by-election, caused by her husband’s resignation, unopposed in June.
Along with Yadav, M. Raja Mohan Reddy, the newly-elected MP from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, also took oath. Reddy is from the YSR Congress.
They took oath on the first day of parliament’s monsoon session.
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A key component found in broccoli sprouts can help fight breast cancer, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from the Oregon State University in the US have found that a key component of broccoli sprouts -sulforaphane- can help suppress breast cancer proliferation and growth, an Australian daily reported.
Sulforaphane acts through DNA methylation, a biochemical process that is important for normal development in higher organisms.
‘Chief Minister does not listen to anyone nor he has confidence in anyone’ asserted Congress MLA and former state minister Dr. Shankar Rao. He further stated ‘If fee-reimbursement is diluted it would cause irreparable damages to both the Congress and the government.’ Talking to media at assembly Dr. Shankar Rao said Congress had promised implementation of fee-reimbursement scheme through its political manifesto, today the scheme is being diluted on various pretexts.
Both houses of parliament were adjourned Wednesday after members raised an uproar over the Assam violence, the Telangana statehood issue and the desecration of a statue of B.R. Ambedkar on the first day of the monsoon session.
In the Lok Sabha, the opposition National Democratic Alliance moved an adjournment motion on the ethnic violence in Assam that has claimed over 70 lives.
Superstar Salman Khan is playing safe – he has decided against travelling to smaller cities to promote his forthcoming film “Ek Tha Tiger” and he has a valid reason to do so.
“It’s not about crowd control. There are women and kids and in their excitement, the men try to take advantage of the fact that there are women in the crowd. Then there are kids and senior citizens who are pushed around. God forbid, if something happens, it comes on to us,” the 46-year-old said here in an interview.
Strongly condemning the move of capping of fee reimbursement scheme by the government, state general secretary Insaaf, Nusrath Mohiuddin has said that this irresponsible move of the government will darken the future of thousands of students and thus government is forcing them to drop education, while on the other hand the government makes lofty claims to promote education.
A State Bank of India ATM loaded with Rs. 30 lakh in cash was destroyed after it caught fire on Tuesday night, police said.
It took the fire brigade more than an hour to douse the flames in Etmadpur, a town 20 km from here.
The security guard at the ATM told the police that the fire started from the air-conditioner.
Ram Kishore, manager of the bank, told the police said Rs. 30 lakh had been put into the automated teller machine (ATM) an hour before the incident.
The machine had been repaired after being out of order for more than a week.
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Some 30,000 Indians among 1.76 million unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the US as children could gain a two-year relief from deportation under President Barack Obama’s new guidelines.
India and South Korea, each with about 30,000 potential beneficiaries, or 2 percent, are the two top countries of origin outside Latin America for prospective beneficiaries under the deferred action policy announced by Obama in June, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
Pakistan’s shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has an annual budget of $300-400 million and despite drastic reductions in personnel “is now assumed (to have a) base strength of approximately 4,000 (people)”, says German scholar Hein Kiessling.
Kiessling, who represented the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation (Munich) in Pakistan from 1989 to 2002, has written this in a collection of essays in “Revisiting Contemporary South Asia” (Pentagon Press).
At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a Tripura-bound bus fell into a deep gorge in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia hills district in the wee hours on Wednesday.
The incident took place sometime between 3 AM and 5 AM at Tamseng village near Meghalaya-Aassam border.
The bus was on its way to Agartala from Guwahati when it fell into the 80-feet deep gorge.
“We have been able to retrieve 22 bodies even as six critically injured persons were shifted to Khliehriat community health centre”, district police chief M K Dkhar said.
Seven rivers in Uttar Pradesh are in spate as rains continued in most parts of the state.
The Burrhi Rapti river in Kakrahi, Sharda river in Palia Kalan, Ghaghra river in Elgin Bridge, Ayodhya and Turtipar, Rapti river in Balrampur were flowing above the danger mark while the Ganga river was flowing at the danger mark in Varanasi, the Central Water Commission said.
UP’s Irrigation Minister Shivpal Yadav, who did an aerial survey of the flooded areas Tuesday, blamed neighbouring Nepal for the floods.
As the month-long monsoon session of Parliament got underway, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the government is prepared to discuss any issue in accordance with rules and hoped the opposition would cooperate in tackling legislative business before the two Houses.
“Our government is prepared to discuss any issue in accordance with the rules and procedure,” he told reporters while entering Parliament on the first day of the monsoon session.
The Monsoon Session of Parliament opening on Wednesday promises to kick up a lot of heat and dust as Opposition parties are planning to raise issues like communal violence in Assam, rising prices, economy and drought.
Seeking to corner the government, BJP has announced plans to raise on the very first day the issue of Assam clashes which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the a blot on the nation.
The Assam issue could generate a lot of heat as Congress and the Opposition are expected to indulge in charges and counter charges.
Vice-President Hamid Anasri, who was re-elected on Tuesday, said he would continue to work for realisation of the aspirations of the people of India.
“I look forward to discharging my duties as Vice-President of the India and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha to the best of my abilities. I will urge all the members of the House to work towrads the realisation of the aspirations of the people of India, all sections of the people of India,” Ansari told reporters here.