Sakshi Sawhney and Chand Chopra share highest number of Gold Medals– eight each, among the 2007-12 B.A., LL.B ( Hons) Graduates at tenth annual convocation of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, NALSAR University of Law to be held on September 2, at Shamirpet here.
A press release said that the Union Minister for Power and Corporate Affairs Dr M. Veerappa Moily will be the chief guest and deliver the Tenth Convocation address.
YSR Congress deputy floor leader Shobha Nagi Reddy has charged a section of the electronic media with falsely reporting that the bandh called by her party which was successful, was a flop. She has lamented that some channels had telecast special bulletins to state that there was no bandh at all in the state.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi interacted with netizens online on Google Plus hangout on Friday. However, the online session was disrupted for few minutes after the Google server cashed due to huge traffic.
Modi, who is facing Assembly elections by year-end, answered questions during the programme, anchored by Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn and broadcast on youtube.
During the interaction, no questions were raised regarding Naroda Patya verdict which sentenced a BJP MLA among others.
Iran’s first nuclear power station has begun operating at full capacity, a Russian firm said Friday.
The plant’s launch in August 2010 prompted Israel and other nations to express fears the reactor could help Iran creat an atomic bomb. Tehran has denied the allegations, saying the facility was for peaceful power generation only.
The plant was connected to Iran’s electricity grid in September, 2011.
A chase for two chain snatchers by the police in Rae Bareli turned awry Friday night when a youth was shot dead in a shootout, police said Saturday.
The incident happened when a team of Special Operations Group (SOG) was pursuing two chain snatchers in Lodhipur Uttrawan village. Rae Bareli is 77 km from here.
When the duo abandoned their vehicle on a roadside and escaped in the fields, the police opened fire in which a 22-year-old youth, Dharmendra, was killed.
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.”
A witness in the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder case on Friday refuted the CBI’s claim that he painted the flat soon after the crime, leading to destruction of evidence.
During cross-examination at a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, Shohrat, a painter, said he painted the Jalvayu Vihar flat of Aarushi’s parents in Noida in July 2009, a year after the murders were committed there.
It was pleasant surprise for Chaturvedi couple as they stood outside the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s residence here and Akhilesh Yadav came out to meet them and congratulated them for having helped police nab robbers.
The couple, Suchitra Chaturvedi and her husband Ajay Chaturvedi, reached the residence of the chief minister on Friday after the Lucknow Police succeeded in catching the accused who had robbed her purse five days back.
When informed about their presence outside the residence, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav took out time from his busy schedule to meet them.
A total of 29 people were killed in a road accident in Nigeria Friday, reported Xinhua.
According to Nigeria’s road commission, the accident occurred on the Potiskum-Kano road in Yobe state when two buses coming from opposite sides had a head on collision.
The buses went up in flames after collision, killing 29 passengers and charring nine of them beyond recognition, said an official with the Federal Road Safety Commission, adding reckless driving and over-speeding caused the accident.
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Radiation emission from mobile telephone towers will be reduced to 1/10th of the present level from Saturday, a decision aimed at addressing public health concerns.
Also, the handsets to be rolled out from domestic manufacturing units or to be imported will have reduced absorption capacity, as per the new guidelines.
The minimum distance of a tower (with two antenna) will be 35 meter from a residential building. There are over seven lakh towers for mobile phones throughout the country.
Commercial Taxes and Marketing Minister Mukhesh Goud has demanded the State Government to allot the 608 houses being constructed under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme at Phool Bagh in Basheer Bagh area to local people only.
The State BJP president G Kishan Reddy has made it clear that separate Rayalaseema State proposal was not in his party’s agenda.
Participating in a ‘meet the press’ program organised by the Telangana Journalists Union here on Friday, Kishan Reddy said that creation of separate Telangana State was possible with the BJP only. He said that the BJP will strive hard in taking the movement forward. He said that the Telangana movement began in 1956 itself, just because the leaders failed to honour the agreements made during the merger of Telangana and Seemandhra regions as one.
Telangana Praja Front (TPF) and Singareni Dismissed Workers Association will be jointly organizing ‘Chalo Hyderabad and Mahadharna programme on September 7 at Indirapark here from 10 am, demanding the State government to immediately take the dismissed workers back into service.
The Government has allocated Rs.400 crore under Rajiv Education Mission for providing the special equipments and other necessities for the physically challenged persons in the State this year.
Actor Ranbir Kapoor refused to confirm reports that he will be seen opposite Kareena Kapoor in Zoya Akhtar`s next film.
“Nothing has been confirmed as of now. We are very close friends so we keep talking, but nothing is confirmed,” he told reporters at a promotional event of his upcoming film, “Barfi”.
The actor also said that he would love to direct and produce a film under the RK Films banner, but doesn`t have the time at the moment.
The National Commission for Protection of Child’s Right (NCPCR) today termed as a “cruel joke” Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s comment attributing high rate of malnutrition in his state to figure conscious young girls and people being vegetarian.
Accusing Modi of trivialising the issue, NCPCR Chairperson Shantha Sinha said Modi should take responsibility for this “dismal” situation and implement a robust health policy.
Four persons, including two senior citizens, were seriously injured when a cooking gas cylinder exploded at a residence here this afternoon, police said.
The incident took place at a bungalow in Bangar Nagar here, police said, adding that the intensity of the explosion was such that the walls collapsed.
The injured were identified as Sadashiv Lokhare (68), his wife Padma (65), their daughter-in-law Tanuja (28) and their neighbour Keshav Mandale (60). They have been admitted to a local hospital and are said to be in a critical condition, police added.
ACB has arrested three persons, including a Deputy Commercial Tax officer, in two bribery cases here and in the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district.
Munimandla Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commercial Tax Officer of Charminar Circle was caught red-handed by the ACB officials late last night at his office when he demanded and accepted an amount of Rs 50,000 as bribe from the complainant for doing an official favour of giving favourable audit report, an ACB release said here today.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be holding consultations with UPA constituents and allies on ways and means to break the deadlock in Parliament over the coal block allocation issue.
An indication to this effect was given today by Congress sources who said Gandhi, the UPA chairperson, is most likely to have interaction with constituents of the ruling alliance and outside supporters.
Bilal Chishti, the ‘Pir’ of the famous Sufi shrine at Ajmer in India, called on Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday and invited him to visit the shrine.
Chishti met the premier at the Prime Minister’s House this evening. He was accompanied by Mian Aziz-ur-Rehman Chan, a top leader of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party from Punjab province. He invited the premier to visit the Ajmer shrine.
Ashraf accepted the invitation and said he would visit Ajmer at “the first available opportunity”, said a statement from the premier’s office.
Pakistani Taliban have beheaded 12 soldiers captured during a recent attack on a security check post in the restive Bajaur tribal region and released a video showing their severed heads, a militant spokesman said on Friday.
Sirajuddin, a spokesman for the Swat chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, told reporters in the country’s northwest by phone that the militants had released a video showing the severed heads of the soldiers.
Launching a blistering attack against veteran singer Asha Bhosle, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today slammed her and said that she should have rejected the offer of working with Pakistani singers.
“Asha Bhosle says ‘atithi devo bhava’. Why did she not say this when Kasab was arrested? She should have refused the offer of working with Pakistani singers,” he said, addressing a party office bearers meet here today.
“Pakistan and Bangladesh are aiming to destroy our country and she makes artistes from Pakistan big,” he said.
Best known for her performance in ‘Dor’ and Salman Khan starrer ‘Wanted’, actress Ayesha Takia, who will be seen in a new avatar as a host on singing reality show, says her Bollywood career is not over yet.
Ayesha is making her debut on small screen as the host for singing reality show ‘Sur-Kshetra’ that would have a mix of both Indian and Pakistani singers.
Even though two of his recent films have crossed the 100-crore mark, Akshay Kumar says he isn’t at peace yet, as the pressure has been built ever since Aamir Khan’s “Ghajini” first set the box office milestone. Both ‘Rowdy Rathore’ and ‘Housefull 2’ grossed well but Akshay said the monkey is not off his back as one needs to live up to people’s expectations everyday in this industry.
A factory employee was arrested here for sending obscene text messages to the family of a girl who rejected his marriage proposal, and attempting to extort Rs.5 lakh by blackmailing them, said police Thursday.
Waseem Akram, native of Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from north Delhi following investigations into a complaint filed by the brother of the girl in June this year.