Surpassing all previous records, gold skyrocketed to an high of Rs 31,725 per ten grams in the national capital Saturday on frantic buying by stockists, sparked by a steep rise in global prices.
Delhi led the rally, rising the most by Rs 550 to Rs 31,725 per ten grams followed by Kolkata with Rs 540 to Rs 31,715. The metal in Mumbai spurted by Rs 520 to Rs 31,400 and in Chennai by Rs 540 to Rs 31,575.
The funeral for US astronaut Neil Armstrong was held in Cincinnati, Ohio on Friday. Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon died last Saturday at the age of 82.
The funeral was attended by Armstrong’s family and friends as well as fellow astronauts.
Flags flew half-mast across America on Friday, following President Barack Obama’s order to mark the funeral.
A public memorial for the astronaut will be held on 12 September in Washington.
More and more Saudi Arabian women are earning global recogniton in the field of science and medicine, according to a report.
As Samar Fatany wrote for a Saudi daily, she cited a report by UNESCO and said that the percentage of women graduating from the universities in the country, who hailed from the branch of science and medicine, was higher than that in western countries.
The new guidelines which would come into force from Saturday necessitate installation of a tower at a distance of 35 meter from a residential building. Telecom minister Kapil Sibal told that non-compliance of these standards will result in a penalty of Rs. 5 lakh per tower.
With the new guidelines coming into force, the radiation emission from telecom towers will come down to 1/10th of the present level.
The bail hearing of a minor Christian girl charged with blasphemy in Pakistan was on Saturday put off till Monday after her accuser’s counsel raised questions about the lawyer representing her and legal paperwork in the case.
Judge Azam Khan adjourned Rimsha Masih’s case till September 03 and asked police to check a bail application made on her behalf after the accuser’s lawyer claimed in the district and sessions court that legal papers had not been signed by the girl or her mother.
Actress Preity Zinta’s hectic shooting schedules are doing her good. She says she has lost a lot of weight, and feels she is in her thinnest form ever.
“Weighed my self right now and guess what! I’m the thinnest I’ve ever been in my life … lost 10 kilos in two years,” Preity tweeted from Prague, where she is busy shooting for her debut production-project “Ishkq in Paris”.
The movie also marks her comeback to films. She was last seen in a full-fledged role in 2008 film “Heroes”.
Preity says though her job is tough, she still enjoys wearing the grease paint for the camera.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev Saturday accused the Congress of causing a loss of Rs.200 lakh crore in coal blocks allocation and sought resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the scam.
“If the PM, who is responsible for corruption worth Rs.200 lakh crore, is honest then who is dishonest,” asked Ramdev in a press conference here.
He also demanded that the licences issued for coal blocks should be cancelled.
A Muslim federation of over dozen organisations Friday sought a quick and fair investigation into the arrest of 11 youth suspected to have links with banned terror outfits LeT and HuJi and plotting to carry terrors attacks in the city.
“We demand a quick and fair investigation of the case, adherence to rule of law and reiteration that innocents will not be harassed,” federation convener Masood Abdul Khader told reporters, a day after police revealed that the accused were arrested Wednesday from Bangalore and Hubli.
India barely survived a tricky session to make 63/2 at lunch in response to New Zealand’s impressive first innings total of 365 on the second day of the second Test here Saturday.
After the Kiwis folded up in quick time first thing in the morning, Indian batsmen looked anything but assured against seam attack in which Tim Southee stood out by claiming opener Gautam Gambhir (2) and Cheteshwar Pujara (9) before Virender Sehwag (39) and Sachin Tendulkar (4) held firm.
Shooting for Yash Chopra’s yet untitled movie in this picturesque south Kashmir hill station seems to have helped Shah Rukh Khan unwind himself from an otherwise boring routine of lights and camera.
“Slept for 10 hours after a long time. God I feel rested… even my beard seems fresh,” Shah Rukh posted on his widely followed Twitter account Friday.
The superstar has over 2,700,000 people following his account on the micro-blogging site.
The otherwise sleep-starved King Khan appears to be thoroughly enjoying his first ever shooting schedule in the Valley.
President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
Announcing his intent to appoint Wadhwani and nine other general trustees of the centre, Obama said, “These dedicated men and women bring a wealth of experience and talent to their new roles and I am proud to have them serve in this Administration.”
Protesting the attacks on journalists by AAMSU during a bandh sponsored by the outfit, scribes Saturday held demonstrations across Assam demanding ban on it and security to media persons.
Wearing black badges, journalists launched a sit-in at Dighalipukhuri Santi Uddyan here and held the All Assam Muslim Students Union leadership responsible for failing to control its supporters during the Assam bandh on August 28 last.
Hundreds of Hyderabad Central University students gathered in front of the administration block on Friday morning demanding action against the culprits and increased security on the campus following the attempt of a group of youngsters to kidnap a girl on the campus on Thursday night.
Nothing could soothe protestors until administration official assured students’ association leaders to take concrete action immediately.
The Bangalore Police have claimed that the terror suspects are being handled from Saudi Arabia. They also arrested a student from Hyderabad allegedly conspiring to kill a Hindu leader in Hyderabad and two corporators.
However Bangalore Police Commissioner Jyoti Prakash Mirji said the information we get has to be verified first and we have to get evidence as the issue is sensitive.
The family of a city student who was arrested by the Bangalore police Friday in an alleged terror plot has claimed that he is innocent.
Kausar Begum, mother of Mohammed Ubaidru Rehman, said he had no links with any terror outfit or anybody from Bangalore.
She told reporters that the police were trying to implicate him in a false case as the family is related to Moulana Naseeruddin, a cleric who was arrested by Gujarat police in connection with the murder of former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya.
Moulana Naseeruddin spent six years in a Gujarat jail and was acquitted.
The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has claimed.
Matt Bissonnette, 36, in his tell-all account of the operation titled
‘No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden’, has described the moment his team discovered the terrorist leader was dead.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said on Friday that the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the country’s Parchin military base lacks “technical significance”.
“Such claims are void of any technical significance. Anybody, who is an expert in the field, knows that such claims are excuses and (the traces of) issues like that (explosive experiments) cannot be removed by cleanup,” said Salehi on the sidelines of the ongoing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit here, reported Xinhua, citing the semi-official ISNA news agency.
A former US Navy SEAL, who gave a first-hand account of the Osama bin Laden raid in a new book, has denied leaking any classified information.
Robert Luskin, an attorney representing the author with the pen name Mark Owen, said his client “has faithfully fulfilled his duty” and didn’t violate any non-disclosure agreements with the Pentagon, reported Xinhua.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed a fresh trial of a terror accused whose conviction and sentencing had been set aside by a court bench on grounds that the accused was not provided with legal assistance but was split on the future course of action.
Directing the de novo trial of Mohammad Hussain alias Zulfikar Ali, accused in 1997 bomb blast in Delhi, the court said: “The nature of the incident and the circumstances in which it occurred speak volume about the very grave nature of offence.”
President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
Announcing his intent to appoint Wadhwani and nine other general trustees of the centre, Obama said, “These dedicated men and women bring a wealth of experience and talent to their new roles and I am proud to have them serve in this Administration.”
TDP and farmer groups from coastal Andhra Pradesh Saturday launched an agitation to demand release of water from Nagarjunasagar to Krishna.
Legislators and workers from the main Opposition party and farmers from coastal districts of Prakasam, Guntur, Krishna and West Godavari blockade highways and staged sit-ins at various places to press for their demands.
Farmers said release of water from Nagarjunasagar to Krishna delta is necessary to meet their drinking and irrigation requirements. Also uninterrupted power supply is required to save their standing crops.
The Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, on Friday announced that the government is mulling on the regularisation of all religious structures in Delhi. The religious structures such as temples, mosques, gurdwaras and other places of worship that have been built prior to 2007 and are either on land which is unauthorised or partly unauthorised will be given legal sanction.
When asked will this not encourage encroachment, the minister snapped, “How do you demolish a temple? The minister describe the move as “practical solution rather than a people-centric one”
Amidst the raging row over the coal blocks allocation issue, yoga guru Baba Ramdev hit out at Congress on Saturday saying it has created a record in corruption.
Seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ramdev told a press conference, “If the PM is honest then who is dishonest?”
Ramdev further said that a conspiracy is being hatched against his ashram and trust. He said that an FIR in this regard has been lodged by him.
He left on Tuesday as an embattled prime minister with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) baying for his blood over the presumptive loss to the nation in alleged irregularity in the award of lucrative coal mining blocks.
But, by the time he returned on Saturday, Manmohan Singh was completely reinvigorated, serving notice that he was ready to take on the BJP, or for that matter, any other political party – but on his own terms.
The clearest indication of this came during his customary meeting on board his special aircraft while returning home.
Baby rats which get normal levels of dietary fat right after birth, even though their mothers were fed high-fat diets, avoid obesity and related disorders as adults, according to new research.
Conversely, rat babies exposed to a normal-fat diet in the womb but nursed by rat mothers on high-fat diets become obese by the time they are weaned.