Iran and Pakistan could play an important role in establishing peace and stability in the region, a top Pakistani politician has said.
Senate chairman Syed Nayyer Hussain Bukhari said this to Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, the Daily Times reported Sunday.
Bukhari emphasised the need for increasing trade between the two counties. He said the present level of $1.3 billion trade was insufficient given the potential of the neighbours.
Indicative of the growing interaction between India and a nation that straddles the Asian and European continents, Turkish language courses are the hot flavour at the capital’s Jamia Millia Islamia, with 400 applications being received for a bachelor’s degree introduced from this year.
“The response is overwhelming. We didn’t expect it. It’s on account of a new phase of strengthening of bilateral trade relations between India and Turkey in the last few years, which has added to the demand for language experts on both sides,” university Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung told IANS.
With more than four million educated unemployed in the state, Kerala is launching what is perhaps the country’s first government-run job portal.
The portal will feature jobs in Kerala and outside the state in both the private and the public sectors. The website would be officially launched Wednesday.
US and Pakistani officials are considering joint counter-terrorism campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan that would target the Haqqani militant group, a media report said.
The Haqqani network is a Taliban-affiliated group that operates from North Waziristan in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The Haqqani network has been at the forefront of insurgent activity in Afghanistan, responsible for many high-profile attacks, according to the US State Department.
A handful of initiatives that have brought big business houses to promote visual art with incentives and new platforms is trying to open an alternative door for Indian art in the face of shrinking government support and a market slump.
Two new ventures – the Skoda Prize and the Avani GenNext Award 2012 – are trying to tap into the creative potential of young artists below 45 with cash awards and opportunity for foreign residency to hone their art practice in a global environment.
There has been increase of about 12 percent in girl students in Jamia Millia Islamia, following a 10 percent reservation for girls. With this, the percentage of girls on the campus has crossed 30 percent.
“Our aim is to increase this representation to 50 percent… It will be our endeavour to make the campus a safe place for the girl student,” Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung told IANS.
And the increase is not confined to traditionally popular courses but to courses like engineering too. “It is heartening to see girl students opting for engineering in large numbers,” Jung said.
Bilingual children outperform counterparts who speak only one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to a research by a British university.
A study of primary school pupils who spoke English or Italian, half of whom also spoke Gaelic or Sardinian-found that the bilingual children were significantly more successful in the tasks set for them. The Gaelic-speaking children were, in turn, more successful than the Sardinian speakers, the University of Strathclyde study claimed.
Marlon Samuels defied a dropped chance and the “distraction” of the Olympics women’s 100 metres final being shown at the ground to score a pivotal 52 that fortified the West Indies’ bid for a series-clinching victory over New Zealand in the second Test here.
A strawberry extract developed by Italian and Spanish researchers seems to protect the skin against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation and reduce damage to DNA.
“We have verified the protecting effect of strawberry extract against damage to skins cells caused by UVA rays,” said Maurizio Battino, researcher at the Universita Politecnica delle Marche in Italy, who led the joint Spanish and Italian study.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has foiled an attempt by over 250 Chakma tribals, including women and children, from Bangladesh to enter India after their homes were attacked, an officer said Sunday.
The BSF troopers have provided food and drinking water to these Chakma tribals, who gathered Saturday night opposite the border Silachari village in south Tripura, 225 km southeast of here.
It was in August 1972 – 40 years ago – that nearly 10,000 people of Indian-origin fled Idi Amin’s Uganda and arrived in the depressed, deprived and unwelcoming town of Leicester on a cold, misty morning.
Officially, they were not welcome.
That year, the Leicester City Council had asked them in a newspaper advertisement that it was “in your own interests and those of your family… not come to Leicester.”
BJP leader L K Advani today said a non-Congress, non-BJP Prime Minister supported by any of these two parties is “feasible” in the next general elections but cautioned that this may not be a very stable dispensation.
In his latest blog posting, Advani said, “A non-Congress, non-BJP Prime Minister heading a government supported by one of these two principal parties is, however, feasible. This has happened in the past also.”
He cited the examples of Charan Singh, Chandrashekhar, Deve Gowda and I K Gujral – all supported by Congress – as
well as V P Singh (supported by BJP).
At least four people were killed on Sunday and 10 injured, including women and children, when a car bomb exploded in Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta, media reports said.
The blast took place around noon when an explosives laden car, parked in the Faizabad residential colony, was set off by a remote controlled device, Xinhua reported, citing the Urdu TV channel Dunya.
One house was razed to ground and two others damaged.
Some people are feared to be buried under the rubble, and rescuers are combing through the debris.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Gone are the days when an iftar meal in Pakistan would consist of the traditional fruit-chaat, chick peas, dates and sherbet. Now, chicken schezwan, prawn on toast and even juicy cheese burgers with fried chips have taken their place.
Restaurants in Karachi now serve these food items to break the fast with, the Dawn reported Sunday.
The port city now brims with food lovers who yearn to step out of their houses to eat, and their taste buds want something “different”, and the myriad restaurants in the city provide them with just that.
The Statistics Centre of Abu Dhabi (Scad) issued its second weekly report on food prices in the month of Ramadan.
Scad’s report indicates an increase of 0.5 per cent week on week in the prices of food commodities during the second week of the month of Ramadan, reflecting rises in the prices of meat by 5.2 per cent, sugar, jams, chocolate, honey and sweets by 2.2 per cent and coffee, tea and cocoa by 1.5 percent, while the price of the fish and seafood and vegetables retreated by 3 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively.
JP veteran LK Advani on Sunday kicked off a debate on next general elections saying that the Lok Sabha polls will be proved “worst” for the Congress in its history since 1952. “People generally believe that for the Congress party, the worst phase in so far as Lok Sabha results are
concerned, were the post-Emergency elections of 1977. It would not at all be surprising if the next Lok Sabha elections yield a result which for the Congress may prove to be the worst in its history since 1952,” Advani said in his latest blog.
Doctors Without Border (MSF) Saturday urged Dhaka to reconsider its ban on providing aid to Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees, saying the humanitarian consequences of the decision will be “devastating”. Bangladesh this week ordered three global charities including France’s MSF and Action Against Hunger (ACF) and Britain’s Muslim Aid to stop providing aid to Rohingyas who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Myanmar.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today sought an appointment with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan singh for Monday to discuss power shortage caused due to scarcity of Gas.
On receipt of green signal from the PMO, the Chief Minister, accompanied by Union ministers and MPs from the State, would meet Dr Singh and discuss the power and gas crises.
The Chief Minister today held a high-level meeting in the Camp Office on power generation and gas supply. The CM has decided to write to the Prime Minister pleading for allocation of Gas to the State as per requirement.
People with allergies run a lower risk of glioblastoma, the most common and most aggressive brain tumour, with women at a stronger reduced risk than men, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from Ohio State University found that men and women whose blood samples contained allergy-related antibodies had an almost 50 per cent lower risk of developing glioblastoma, 20 years later compared to people without signs of allergies.
The study analysed stored blood samples that were taken from patients decades before they were diagnosed with glioma.
Commenting upon the announcement made by team Anna to form a political party, senior BJP leader Mr. M Venkaiah Naidu claimed that running a political party is not an easy task. Talking to press persons here Mr. Venkaiah Naidu told that everyone has a right to form political party in a democracy but it is not easy to make it durable and successful.
‘A party requires a perspective, effective leadership, workers and solution for the challenges faced by the country.’ He asserted.
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(Siasat News)Engineering studies, which even a student, whose parental income is below 1 lakh can pursue, now will cost more than Rs. 4 lakhs.
Till the 2011 academic year government followed reimbursement scheme for the entire studies of the student whose parental income is below one lakh per annum, but from this academic year student will be given scholarship of Rs. 35,000 rest of the burden need to be born by the student.
The nine-member committee formed by the chief minister is going to submit its report on the new fee structure.
As per the report of Mrs. Nikhat Ara Shaheen incharge principal Oriental Urdu College Himayatnagar, Hyderabad, entrance test for admission into MA Urdu will be held on August 12. Hall tickets have been received by the college.
All students are hereby informed that they can collect the hall tickets from college office between 2 to 5 pm. Further details can be had from phone no 9959632384.
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Abhishek Bachchan is headed to London to attend the Olympics as brand ambassador of Omega watches, says father Amitabh, who had carried the torch ahead of the opening ceremony.
“One comes another leaves. Abhishek travels out to the Olympics tonight (Sunday). As brand ambassador for Omega and the watch company being one of the sponsors of London2012, he goes to attend some events ! Lucky,” Big B posted on his blog, bachchan.tumbir.com.
Having plumped for electoral politics, Team Anna may soon face the acid test on whether to contest the upcoming Assembly elections in BJP-ruled Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Though it has made clear its intention to have a shot at power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an anti-corruption plank, Team Anna has not talked about contesting the Assembly elections slated this year-end.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said the decision of Team Anna to float a political party only indicates that their “movement against corruption has failed.”
Team Anna would not have decided to form a political party had its movement against corruption succeeded, Singh said while welcoming their move and added that anyone has a right to form a political party in the country.
However, it remains to be seen as to what effect the new party will have on Indian politics and to what extent it will be able to influence the people, he quipped.