At 33, Bipasha Basu is fit as a fiddle. She believes fitness is the best investment as good health leads to happiness.
“It’s very important to love yourself because that’s where your life begins. You have one life, one body that you need to respect and look after. There is no other place where you live but just your body,” Bipasha said here Sunday at the Fittest City contest.
Another water body in the city is now under threat of encroachment. Bhageerathi Lake in Khajaguda area, near Gachibowli has caught the attention of land grabbers who have encroached upon three acres of the lake bed. The lake has also become a dumping yard for city’s effluence.
Environmentalists said that one of the largest lakes in Serilingampally mandal, Bagheerathi, was built during the Nizams’ time and has been a home to variety of birds. Located in a picturesque setting amidst rock formations, the water from this lake was once used for irrigation and drinking purpose as well.
Kyrgyz rescuers found four bodies in the rubble of a collapsed public toilet at one of the country’s biggest markets, an official said.
The dead included three women and a man, emergencies ministry spokesman Abdysharip Bekelov said.
The incident took place Saturday at a crowded market in south Kyrgyzstan. Rescuers pulled out 12 survivors from the rubble.
–IANS
After the dismissal of Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bail petition by Supreme Court, his mother, Ms. Vijayalakshmi and his wife, Ms. Bharathi have started exploring new possibilities for his release from jail. It is reported that both these ladies made a secret trip to New Delhi. They stayed there on Wednesday and Thursday. They met the high level Congress leaders in Delhi. This tour was kept secret. No congress leader of A.P. was informed about this visit. Media also got this news when they came back to Hyderabad by Indian Airlines flight.
According to a press note issued by acting president of Iqbal Academy, Hyderabad, Mr. Mohammed Ziauddin Nayyar, Dr. Sir Mohammed Iqbal’s 130th birthday falls on 9th November 2012. He has issued an appeal to all the heads of educational institutions to celebrate Iqbal Day to commemorate this event. There is a need to tell the younger generation how Dr. Iqbal became a great poet and a social reformer?. What was the contribution of his parents in moulding his character?
Global Institute of Islamic Studies is starting classes in various centers of understanding Quran in the city from 4th November.
Miscreants are making attempts to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of the city for the past few days. Their mischief started when big animals were being transported into the city. They stopped the lorries, which carried these animals; it created tension in the city. The communal riots of Musheerabad were the result of such communal disturbances. In Sabzi Mandi area Nishan-e-Mubarak of Hazrath Ghouse-e- Azam (RA) was set ablaze. Shops of the Muslims were looted and set ablaze.
These incidents are the result of incompetence of Police and its partisan treatment.
Composer Aadesh Shrivastava wants to do a song on corruption and has asked his fans to send him ideas.
“Want to do one song on corruption, bad politicians. If you have thoughts for it or lyrics for it, please BBM (Blackberry messenger) me,” the 46-year-old tweeted.
This is not the first time that he is focusing on society through his music. Last year Shrivastava released an album titled “Sounds of Peace” in an effort to promote world peace.
He is one of India’s biggest superstars but Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan says it is lonely at the top and he is constantly fighting with the “feeling of emptiness”.
“There is something wrong in me. I sense it. I feel it but I don’t know what it is,” Shahrukh said during the ThinkFest conclave, an annual event, in Goa.
“I have a beautiful family. I have a few friends with whom I spend lot of time. I don’t want to die like my father. I don’t want to be unknown. I would like to be just successful. Believe me it is lonely at the top.”
These verses from the Quran sketch the Profile of a Muslim (Mu’min). Success for a Muslim doesn’t automatically follow belief. It requires fulfillment of certain conditions.
(Qur’an: Surah 23: Al-Muminoon: ayaat: 1-11)
1. Successful indeed are the believers.
2. Those who offer their Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness.
3. And those who turn away from Al-Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehood, and all that Allah
has forbidden).
4. And those who pay the Zakat.
Gratitude (shukr) is about expressing thanks and appreciation to those who do any favor to us. Obviously, none can come close to our creator, Allah, who gave us everything. As the Quran states:“Who created you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion”[Infitar 82:7]. As humans, Allah has bestowed on us the nature to be grateful and we should thus express that gratitude not just to Allah but to the people whom we deal with as well. In many places in the Quran, Allah divides people as being grateful and as ungrateful to motivate us to join the camp of those who are grateful.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who has long opposed India-Pakistan cricket ties, Monday asked party activists “not to permit” the forthcoming matches between the two countries anywhere in India.
In a front-page appeal in the party mouthpiece Saamna, the 86-year-old leader also lashed out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his statement “to forget the past” and play cricket with Pakistan.
The proposed Pakistani tour in India begins Dec 25. The series would comprise three one-day internationals and two Twenty20s.
(Pervez Bari): The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has demanded the re-opening of the probe into former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case after 21 years following a sensational disclosure that a crucial video of the assassination was suppressed by the then IB (Intelligence Bureau) Chief and now West Bengal Governor M. K. Narayanan.
The Israeli air force has successfully tested an upgraded version of its “Iron Dome” missile defence system, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
“This test constitutes a new success in the project to strengthen the Iron Dome’s performance,” Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement.
“Israel has invested an enormous budget to finance the different missile defence systems that should allow us to protect the whole of our territory within a few years,” he added.
Mr. Zafar Javeed, general secretary Consortium of AP Minority Educational Institutions in a press note stated that the last phase of decentralized online counseling under SW-II for admission into Minority MBA MCA colleges will be held on November 5 & 6 simultaneously at Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Nellore.
Low-dose aspirin is a cheap and effective way to prevent potentially deadly blood clots forming in patients’ legs or the lungs. Low-dose aspirin could thus save the lives of people with a history of blood clot.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney, found that people who have suffered blood clots in the veins of the leg (deep vein thrombosis or DVT) or the lungs (pulmonary embolism or PE) are less likely to suffer a recurrence of the serious blood clots or a heart attack when on low-dose aspirin.
In a major relief for former UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati, the Allahabad High Court today dismissed petitions against her in the Taj Corridor case.
The Lucknow bench of the court also dismissed the petitions against her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui.
Passing the order, the bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Ashwani Kumar Singh said all petitions were devoid of merit and were accordingly being dismissed.
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will face-off in the final of the second Asia Cup Kabaddi Tournament here Monday.
The neighbours qualified for the final here Sunday night, reports Xinhua.
In the first semi-final at the Punjab Sports Stadium, Pakistan thrashed Sri Lanka 46-26 while India defeated a stronger Iran 53-35 in the other semi-final.
Pakistan captain Musharraf Javed said his team would dominate India in the final to lift the trophy.
Qureshi community is quite infuriated by the miscreants’ attacks on beef cattle traders ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. The community wishes stringent action against the anti-social elements who made fatal attacks on traders and robbed their stock.
The old city of Hyderabad remained tense Monday after incidents of violence the night before over reported attempts to expand a place of worship abutting the Charminar monument, police said.
Many shops remained closed Monday, and a holiday was declared in many schools and colleges.
A policeman was injured, six police vehicles and a few shops were damaged as people pelted stones at Shahali Banda near Charminar, the symbol of Hyderabad, Sunday night.
There is a nip in the air, and as you welcome the change with light woollens, you also have unwelcome visitors such as flu, cough and fever.
However, it is not just common ailments you should be careful about. Doctors say cardiac problems and other serious health complications also see a rise in this changing weather.
Vikas Ahluwalia, an internal medicine consultant at Max Super Speciality Hospital here, says those with cardiac problems should be extra careful as winter sets in.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to activate its biomechanics laboratory at the National Cricket Academy here after the costly equipment remained unused and neglected for years.
Pakistan’s former Test captain and now NCA Director Intikhab Alam said the Governing Board had given approval for the project which once operational, would make Pakistan the first Asian cricket playing nation to have a full fledged biomechanics lab.
In a bid to increase participation of disabled voters in Gujarat Assembly polls next month, the Election Commission has introduced Braille numbers and ballot papers besides setting up ramps at polling booths for their convenience.
Adil Mohammed Khan Mahdavi, president Anjuman-e-Mahdavia maintained that the communal elements had seized sacrificial animals with the support of police and had sent them to Gaushalas. They bothered the purchasers by registering cases against them.
Even after repeated identification by Muslim organizations and traders no action has been taken against the miscreants. As a result the Muslim traders and those working under them had to suffer mental and financial trouble.
With the US Presidential Elections just a day away, campaigning will end tonight, bringing down the curtain on several months of high voltage exchange of words between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Continuing with their hectic election campaigning as in the past few days, both the candidates are scheduled to address a series of meetings crisscrossing the battleground States, beginning early in the morning till late in the night.