City police would soon file a supplementary charge sheet in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, describing LeT operative Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as one of the main conspirators who was briefed about the terror operation four months in advance by his bosses in Pakistan.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein Sunday left for a three-day official visit to South Korea, his office said.
His visit comes following an invitation from his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak, Xinhua reported.
U Thein Sein is accompanied by five ministers, including Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin. Trade and investment, human-to-human exchange and development aid are on agenda.
South Korea has invested nearly $3 billion in Myanmar since 1988. Bilateral trade reached $970 million in 2011.
Reacting to Robert Vadra calling graft allegations against him as “utterly false, entirely baseless and defamatory”, India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal Sunday said Vadra is hiding behind DLF and the Congress.
Reacting to Vadra’s remarks that he and Prashant Bhushan were maligning him and his family to “gain cheap publicity”, Kejriwal said, “Robert Vadra has questioned our motives that is not important. He has not replied to the questions that we have raised.”
The Army is opposing implementation of 25 per cent reservation for children of weaker and disadvantaged groups in its around 150 schools under the Right to Education Act, saying it will hamper the educational prospects of wards of its own personnel.
A letter in this regard has been sent to the Defence Ministry by the Army Headquarters, Army sources told a news agency here.
The 1.3 million-strong force runs around 150 schools across the cantonments in the country.
In the traditional working of a political world, power flows outwards from the centre, but it appears to be quite the opposite in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the script for change in the next general elections being written by influential regional satraps.
It’s not just Gujarat’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Chhattisgarh’s Raman Singh have also emerged as mass leaders capable of winning a mandate in their states.
Contrary to the rosy pictures being painted of Bihar’s economic rise, the reality is that shoddy implementation of government schemes has led to anger among the people, a BJP MP in the state who is part of the ruling alliance says.
The frustration is particularly acute among the young, Uday Singh told a news agency here, adding that both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and deputy Sushil Modi were overlooking the undercurrents in Bihar.
The second time MP from Purnia said that there was so much frustration that he would not be surprised if a section of youth takes to guns one day.
‘Nishabd’ actress Jiah Khan, who was last seen in 2010 film ‘Housefull’, has signed a three-film deal with a big production house.
Jiah, who came to a city show flaunting the couture of celebrated designer Jaya Mishra for upcoming Bridal Asia show, Delhi, told PTI, “I will again appear in Bollywood as part of a three-film deal but can`t disclose more at this stage.”
The 24-year-old actress, who had walked the ramp for Mishra at a Hyderabad fashion show a month back, said she found wearing ethnic costumes fascinating.
The sixth season of reality show `Bigg Boss` is going to be different from the previous years with the housemates having the company of a parrot and a fish in the house designed with a new look.
Shifted to Pune`s hill town Lonavala from last year`s Karjat, the `Bigg Boss` house will have statues of the `three wise monkeys` by the poolside, apart from a panic room this year.
Security was beefed up in Islamabad Sunday after the Taliban vowed to attack the participants of an anti-drone rally currently underway in Pakistan.
Interior Minister Rahman Malik has directed the officials to strengthen security at the entry and exit points of the city, Geo TV reported.
Security at five-star hotels and the diplomatic enclave has been further strengthened, while roads leading to the area have been blocked by placing freight containers across them.
Seven more children succumbed to encephalitis during the last 24 hours at the BRD Medical College Hospital here, taking the toll in the dreaded disease to 400 in Uttar Pradesh.
Twenty more patients suffering from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome have been admitted to various hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti divisions during the period, official sources said.
Additional director (Health) Diwakar Prasad said 282 people suffering from encephalitis are being treated in these hospitals.
Researchers have identified a trauma switch that protects us from developing irrational and uncontrollable fear.
Our brains have the extraordinary capacity to adapt to changing environments, which includes protecting us from developing mental disorders, triggered by stress and trauma.
Stressful events re-programme certain receptors in the brain`s emotional centre, the amygdala, which then determines how the brain reacts to the next traumatic event, the journal Molecular Psychiatry reports.
Thirty-two Americans, most of them women, have joined a massive anti-drone rally in Pakistan led by former cricketer Imran Khan.
The campaigners of the US anti-war group Code Pink are here to draw attention of the American public to the impact of the US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The group, which describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement, is working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Geo TV reported.
Robert Vadra on Sunday dismissed as “utterly false, entirely baseless and defamatory” allegations over his property dealings with DLF and said he was saddened by attempt of activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan to malign him and his family to “gain cheap publicity“.
Popping a multivitamin tablet daily may boost the memory and slow mental decline, according to new research.
Researchers have found that taking supplements has a beneficial effect on memory and may work by increasing efficiency of brain cells.
The body needs 13 vitamins to function properly and maintain health. Vitamins A, C, D, E and K and the eight B vitamins each have specific job in the body.
Vitamin C keeps cells healthy, D regulates calcium and E maintains cell structure, while the B vitamins, including folic acid, have a wide range of functions.
The Congress in West Bengal is set for an “all-out political attack” on the Trinamool Congress by launching a campaign focussed on the all-round benefits of foreign investment in multi-brand retail and was ready to play the role of an opposition against the Mamata Banerjee-led state government.
Terming the Trinamool chief’s staunch opposition to foreign direct investment in retail as a customary practice of the West Bengal government, state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya said that “whenever something new is introduced then those in the government try to block it in Bengal”.
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1) Khadijah’s (r.a.) daughter …… migrated to Abyssinia with her husband Uthman bin Affan
A) Fatimah
B) Zainab
C) Ruqaiyyah
D) Umm Kulthum
2) Who was known as Khalilullah ?
A) Isa (a.s.)
B) Ibrahim (a.s.)
C) Ismail (a.s.)
D) Idris (a.s.)
3) Nuh (a.s.) lived for at least …….. years.
Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda was Saturday formally charged with abetting Geetika Sharma’s suicide with a police chargesheet, filed in a Delhi court, also blaming him for destroying evidence and conspiracy. The victim’s family praised the investigators’ efforts.
Filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) D.K. Jangala, the chargesheet ran into over 1,000 pages. Police informed the court that a supplementary chargesheet against one of Kanda’s associate may be filed later.
Caught in a controversy over allegations made by activist Arvind Kejriwal that he was favoured by realty major DLF, Robert Vadra on Sunday said he was saddened by attempts to manufacture lies against him.
The son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said allegations against him are “utterly false, entirely baseless and defamatory”.
Vadra added that he was saddened by the attempts to malign him and his family in order to gain cheap publicity.
Slamming Kejriwal, Vadra asserted that his financial transactions were transparent.
Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been presented before a federal judge here following his extradition from Britain to face terror charges.
Abu Hamza faces 11 terror charges and is one of the five men who left England Friday, hours after the London High Court ruled they could be extradited “immediately”, the CNN reported.
Two planes carrying the men left the Royal Air Force base Mildenhall so they could face trial in the US, British Home Secretary Theresa May said in a statement.
With India accounting for over 10 percent of global deaths in road accidents each year, about 1,000 road safety experts from 30 countries are to in the national capital next month to discuss ways to cut down on such fatalities.
The two-day meet on Road Safety on Urban and Rural Roads, being organised by the India chapter of Geneva-based International Road Federation (IRF), the global body for promoting and advocating safe road developments, will be held Nov 1-2.
An NRI couple died in a mysterious house fire in this Australian city.Police said officers were in the area attending an unrelated matter when they observed a fire coming from a house in Hale Street early this morning.Police said they entered the house and located a man, dragging him from the burning building.
The man was taken toa local hospital with significant burns but has since died of his injuries. Police also recovered a body of a woman from the house.Australian media identified the victims as Sargun Ragi, 22 and her taxi driver husband Avjit Singh, 31.
A pioneering Indian-origin brain doctor, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, has set on a five-day hunger strike in London to protest “unfair” treatment meted to him and his colleagues by the National Health Service for raising concerns about Britain’s health services.
Dr Narinder Kapur, a world authority on brain behaviour, was sacked from a Cambridge hospital in 2010 for blowing the whistle over under-qualified and unsupervised staff treating patients at the hospital – a practice he claimed was endangering patients.
Amr (R.A) narrates that Prophet (S.A.W.S) one day delivered a sermon saying: “Listen carefully! The world and its things are temporary commodity (and as such have no worth and value), shared and consumed by both the good and the evil people alike! Indeed, the Hereafter is truly a reality and will arrive at its appointed time in which Judgement will be made by a Powerful King. Listen carefully! Indeed all good, in all its varieties, is in Paradise!
Feelings of remorse and guilt are natural reflections of sinning, if the person who has sinned has a conscious which is alive.
After committing a sin, a person who fears Allah and give high respect to Him would feel a sense of despondency and despair thinking, “How will Allah forgive me for this sin?” However, it is noteworthy that despairing of Allah’s mercy is in itself one of the major sins in Islam for Allah is ever merciful, ever forgiving.
As He says in the Qur’an:
“Do not despair of Allah’s mercy; He will forgive you of all your sins”.Qur’an (39:53).
Albert Einstein’s handwritten letter in which he calls religion “childish” is to be auctioned on Monday.
The letter with a starting price of 1.85 million pounds (about $3 million), is expected to go for as much as 3.7million pounds (about $ 6 million).
In the letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954, the genius questions the existence of God. In his note, written a year before his death, Einstein says the word God is “nothing more than the expression of human weaknesses”.