Bihar observed Dolphin Day Friday to raise awareness about conservation of the Ganga river dolphin declared as India’s national aquatic animal.
“Dolphin Day is a step towards conserving the Ganga river dolphin and would be observed every year on Oct 5,” Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said at a workshop here.
“It is a part of the Wildlife Week being observed in Bihar (Oct 2-8),” he added.
On international James Bond Day, superstar Shah Rukh Khan has expressed his desire to play a similar kind of role.
guns. The actor expressed his love for the ‘Bond’ series on Twitter.
“I am a big James Bond fan. Always wanted to play a character like him… but am told… I am not smooth with guns or women… bah,” he wrote and also mentioned his favourite dialogue from ‘Thunderball’ a 1965 Bond movie.
“My favourite Bond lines `JB: That gun, it looks more for a woman. You know much about guns, Mr. Bond? JB: No, but I know a little about women,” he wrote.
Real-life crime cases have always inspired filmmakers and it seems Aamir Khan is bitten by the same bug too. The story of his upcoming film ‘Talaash’ revolves around a murder and reportedly it bears resemblance to much-publicised Aarushi murder case.
Director Reema Kagti and producer Aamir, who also plays the lead in the film, have reportedly studied the way police in Delhi`s suburb Noida handled the Aarushi murder case and then how CBI went on to re-investigate it.
After a gap of 12 years, actor Akshay Kumar, is all set to stage his comeback as Bollywood`s original `Khiladi` in yet another film from the action-comedy series, titled as `Khiladi 786`.
After string of films in the `Khiladi` series, comprising Khiladi (1992), Main Khiladi Tu Anari (93), Sabse Bada Khiladi (95), Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (96), Mr and Mrs Khiladi (97), International Khiladi (99) and Khiladi 420 (2000), the 45-year-old star is eager to reclaim the tag with the film, which releases on December 7 this year.
Indian MPs would soon float a forum to advocate elimination of stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy.
“Next parliament session, we will float a forum to end leprosy and advocate the rights of persons affected by the disease,” Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi said at an international symposium on leprosy and human rights in Asia.
Also supporting the cause were Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Lok Sabha member D Purandeshwari and Congress Lok Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh Madhu Goud Yakshi.
Britons take fewer basic hygiene precautions like washing hands and sneezing into a tissue against catching flu than people in other countries, a new international study has found.
The survey by Harvard School of Public Health, showed that just one in five cavalier Brits tried to keep away from people with flu-like symptoms and fewer avoided shopping centres or sporting events during the flu season.
Researchers carried out surveys in the UK, the US, Argentina, Japan and Mexico soon after the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, the `Daily Mail` reported.
A new math method can help predict a woman`s chances of becoming pregnant, depending on how long the couple has been trying, say researchers.
For instance, the researchers from Warwick Medical School found that, if the woman is aged 35 years, after just six months of trying, her chance of getting pregnant in the next cycle is less than 10 percent.
New Delhi, October 05: The BJP Friday said “good governance and development” will be important issues in the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat polls and signalled its intention to target the Congress on corruption.
After a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election management and coordination committee here, party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had made progress despite “discrimination” by the union government.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Friday sealed a shopping mall for not obtaining the occupancy certificate.
Sleuths of the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) today trapped a Deputy Commercial Tax Officer and a senior Assistant in Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh for accepting a bribe of Rs 8,000.
M V Ch Acharyulu Dy Commercial Tax Officer (VAT), Vijayawada-1 was caught red handed by the ACB officials when
he demanded and received the amount from the complainant for doing an official favour of releasing copper wire bundles belonging to Mahavir Company, Vijayawada, which were seized by the DCTO (VAT).
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office Friday denied the government paid the travel and medical bills of UPA chief Sonia Gandhi, describing as “untrue and misleading” the Rs.1,880-crore ($363 million) figure taken by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The clarification from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) came after Modi raised the issue of Gandhi’s foreign travel since 2004, saying these had been borne by the government.
“The PMO would like to put on record that the government has incurred no expenses on UPA chairperson’s visits abroad,” the PMO said in a statement.
Iraqi officials say a double bombing near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad has killed five people, including four worshippers.
Police say that the bombs went off outside the al-Sadrein mosque and at a nearby police checkpoint as noon prayers ended today in the mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad.
They say at least 26 worshippers were wounded.
A medical official in a nearby hospital confirms the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because they are not authorised to talk to the media.
Sania Mirza today earned the opportunity to end her 2012 season with a title win as she reached the summit clash of the China Open with her partner Nuria Llagostera Vives, here.
The fifth seeded Indo-Spanish pair downed the sixth seed team of Katarina Srebotnik of Slovakia and Jie Zheng of China 7-5 6-1 in the semifinals of the USD 4,828,050 hard court event.
They play third seeded Russian pair of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina, who defeated fellow Russian Maria
Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova 6-4 7-5 in their semifinal.
Pathan Kaun Banega Crorepati Mein:
Q: What is you father name?
Pathan: Plz Options?
A. Dilawar
B. Changez
C. Feroz
D. Sultan
Pathan: Life line 50/50
A. Dilawar
C. Feroze
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25% Feroze
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Kisko call karengy?
Pathan: Apne baap dilawar ko!
Five persons were arrested after a large number of fake debit and credit cards were seized from them at Amit Nagar circle in Kareli Bagh area here, police said today.
The five accused are from Mumbai and were in Vadodara for the last couple of days, police said Police seized 546 blank ATM cards, 167 debit cards, a car and other materials including swiping writer, electronic card system printer and a laptop worth around Rs six lakh from these persons last evening, city police commissioner Satish
Sharma told PTI.
A woman gave birth to a child in an ambulance after a government primary health centre at Shamli town refused to admit her citing lack of doctors.
The incident occurred last evening when one Irfan brought his pregnant wife to a primary health centre after she went
into labour.
She was referred to the district hospital due to non-availability of doctors.
However, she gave birth to the child on the way.
A probe has been ordered into the incident and strict action has been assured against those responsible for it.
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Ministers and secretaries in attendance at cabinet meetings in the last few weeks are seeing an entirely new and unfamiliar face of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — a man driven by an idea and a determination to carry it through, brooking no dissent.
According to insiders, this transformation was first seen during a crucial meeting last month when Manmohan Singh virtually chided Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh when he tried to speak at a presentation on allowing foreign equity in multi-brand retail.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner MT Krishna Babu on Friday directed the officials to depute female workers also along with the UMS team so that they can take up Anti Larval Operations at the residences as most of the owners are not permitting the male workers into their homes.
YSR Congress is contemplating to file a review petition against Supreme Court verdict of dismissing the bail plea of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and has asked its cadre not to be disappointed but work with renewed vigour to strengthen the Party under the stewardship of YS Vijayamma.
The Special CBI court on Friday sent Mehfuz Ali Khan, the personal assistant of mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, to judicial custody till October 17 in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation scam.
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1) Abdur Rahman was the son of …….. who fought on the side of the unbelievers during the Battle of Badr.
A) Muhammad (s.a.w.)
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D) Abu Bakr (r.a.)
The Gujarat High Court today declined to entertain the bail plea of a suspended police officer, who is an accused in the 2005 fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, an alleged gangster, on the ground that the Supreme Court has transferred the case to Maharashtra.
N K Amin, a former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), was arrested in 2007. Justice Anant Dave declined to
hear Amin’s petition holding that this court no longer has the jurisdiction in the case as its trial has been shifted to the neighbouring state, and disposed of the plea.
Days after making his political move, Arvind Kejriwal Friday accused Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, of corruption in land deals. The Congress termed the allegations “wild and completely unfair”.
Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal and his colleague Prashant Bhushan alleged that Vadra bought property in Gurgaon and other places at rates much below market rates and sold them at huge profit.
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PAPPU : Here it is!
TEACHER : Correct. Now, class, who discovered America?
CLASS : PAPPU!
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Friday rubbished the claim by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi that Rs 1,880 crore were spent on overseas visits of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, saying it was “untrue and misleading”. The PMO underlined that the government had spent no money on Gandhi’s overseas visits or her medical treatment abroad or in India.