Director Kabir Khan, who cast Salman Khan as a RAW agent in ‘Ek Tha Tiger’, says the actor is apt to become India`s James Bond.
“Salman, I think, has the charisma and the sheer presence that a Bond needs,” the 41-year-old said here Wednesday at the premiere of latest 007 movie ‘Skyfall’.
“You look at him, he is strong, silent. But you know when he, sort of, goes into action, there is going to be a lot of thrill,” he added.
Reversing early losses, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Thursday bounced back to close over 56 points up helped by 5 per cent rise in Tata Motors shares on hopes of robust October sales and over 4 per cent rise in Bharti Airtel ahead of a key meeting to consider spectrum refarming issue.
The Sensex, which had gained 74.53 points in Wednesday’s trade, opened weak and was down over 60 points weighed down by Reliance Industries, HUL, ITC and Infosys in initial trades.
Empathy can trick the smartest of brains into being fooled by a swindler, says a new US research.
The network of neurons (nerve cells) that allows us to empathise also dumbs down the brain`s analytical network, says the study by the Case Western Reserve University.
The findings show for the first time that we have a built-in neural constraint on our ability to be both empathetic and analytic simultaneously.
When the analytic network is engaged, our ability to appreciate the human cost of our action is repressed, the journal NeuroImage reports.
Gold prices closed unchanged at Rs. 31,500 per 10 grams in the bullion market in New Delhi on Thursday, while silver shot up by Rs. 850 to Rs. 60,250 on buying by stockists amid higher global advices.
Traders said lack of buying support at existing higher levels kept gold flat, while increased buying by dealers for the festive as well as the wedding season led to a rise in silver’s price. Besides, a firming trend overseas in silver also influenced the sentiment, they said.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its complications can kill at any age, warns a new study.
The study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that the prevalence of CKD shoots up with age from four percent between 20 and 39 years to 54 percent among adults who have crossed 75 years.
Bloomberg researchers analysed data involving more than two million participants across Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, from 46 studies conducted from 1972 to 2011, the journal JAMA reported.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”.
Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband cannot have unrestricted or unqualified power to pronounce the Talaaq.”
The court delved into the fundamental sources of Shariah law to understand the concept of marriage in Islam, the rights of the parties to the marriage contract and the mode and manner the contract is dissolved.
A community panchayat in Rajasthan has unanimously favoured prohibiting girls from using personal mobile phones in order to ensure that they do not get involved with boys.
Alarmed by the case of a girl who eloped with her boyfriend a few days back, elders of Bhandarez town in Dausa district decided to impose the ban in an all-caste meeting held on Wednesday.
The belief in the words of “Lá iláha illallah” cause one to enter Islam, to refute all deities and accept Allah as the only God and Lord of the Universe and what it contains. No one can be a Muslim without believing and adhering to the tenets of of Lá iláha illallah.
“Lá iláha illallah “is the belief in the divine lordship of Allah (referred to as“ruboobiyyah”), meaning believing that Allah is the only one power who creates, gives life and death, and maintains the affairs of all that’s in this universe.
Scientists have developed a super sensitive test kit — 10 times more accurate than the gold standard methods currently available — to detect prostate cancer and viral infections at the earliest stages.
Gold standard is any standardised reliable clinical assessment, which is generally taken to be the best available.
Researchers from the Imperial College London also report that their visual sensor technology is more sensitive for measuring biomarkers, (specific biochemical indicating disease progression), which indicate the onset of prostate cancer and HIV.
The New York Marathon will go ahead Sunday as scheduled in spite of huge damages from Superstorm Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Marathon officials were proceeding as planned to stage the annual event that runs through all five boroughs of the largest city in America, but they were awaiting the final word from city officials regarding the staging of the race, reports Xinhua.
Flooding and power outages remained a concern around the city and subway and other transit systems are still shut because of the damage caused by the superstorm.
The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which consumers buy beyond the cheaper quota of six cylinders, was on Thursday hiked by Rs 26.50 to Rs 922 per unit on firming international rates.
The 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled six bottles at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs 922, up from Rs 895.50 in Delhi, according to Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s largest fuel retailer.
The government had in September restricted the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per household in a year.
Consider this hadith on the value that Allah the Exalted placed on “La iláha illalláh”:
Hadith:
Abu Sa`eed al-Khudri (RadiAllahu anhu) said: that the Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) said:
The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which consumers buy beyond the cheaper quota of six cylinders, was on Thursday hiked by Rs 26.50 to Rs 922 per unit on firming international rates.
The 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled six bottles at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs 922, up from Rs 895.50 in Delhi, according to Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s largest fuel retailer.
The government had in September restricted the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per household in a year.
The BJP on Thursday said there was no pre-condition about rotation of power with the JMM, a major coalition partner in the Arjun Munda-headed Jharkhand government, when it was formed two years ago.
While stating this, BJP Jharkhand unit president Dineshanand Goswami told a press conference, “You can enquire from other coalition partners the JD(U) and the AJSU Party in this regard.”
He said there was a co-ordination committee to raise grievances or issues for discussion.
Websites of key Indian government organisations, including an advisor to the prime minister and the defence establishment DRDO, reportedly came under cyber attacks Wednesday night, leading to their shutdown for a while, government sources said Thursday.
The government sources said some “suspicious and unwanted” activity was observed on these websites, maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), following which these were shut down for a couple of hours.
German luxury car maker Audi on Thursday reported 76 per cent jump in October sales at 850 units as against 482 units in the same month last year.
Buoyed by sales in October, the company said it is confident of crossing the sales target of 8,000 units in 2012.
“Keeping our performance in mind, we are confident of surpassing the 2012 sales target of 8,000 units even before the year comes to an end,” Audi India Head Michael Perschke said in a statement.
The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) cylinders was Thursday hiked by Rs.26.50 to Rs.922 per cylinder.
The 14.2-kg LPG cylinder, which consumers purchase beyond their annual entitlement of six units at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs.922, up from Rs.895.50 in Delhi, according to the Indian Oil Corporation.
A subsidised cooking gas (LPG) cylinder costs Rs.410.
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The premiere for Yash Chopra’s last film “Jab Tak Hai Jaan” will be like a moving museum of the late filmmaker’s work, says Shah Rukh Khan and hopes it turns out to be a “memorable” event for the film fraternity.
“There will be a big screen, and a special sound system is being brought down by specialists who will make film-watching possible in areas which are not regular studios,” Shah Rukh, the leading man of JTHJ, revealed here Wednesday.
Police Kulsoom Pura has registered 4 more cases relating to Sabzi Mandi riots. Police is said to have arrested nearly 8 people from Rasool Gulshan Colony and other areas in this connection. However government sources have not confirms the reports.
Kulsoom Pura police has registered cases of crime no 158, 159, 160 and 161 under various sections.
According to the reports received from Sabzi Mandi area till late night, in the wake rumours, police has increased patrolling in the area and is on high alert.
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International law expert Mr. Hassan Noorain will be the new Consul General of Iran in Hyderabad. He will arrive at Hyderabad on November 2 and take charge of his position.
Mr. Hassan Noorain was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1976. He has good command over Persian and English languages. He is a post graduate in international law. Before his appointment in Hyderabad he was the incharge of counselor section of Iranian Consulate in Karachi.
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A community panchayat in Dausa issued a fresh diktat for girls in a meeting convened in Bhandarej on Wednesday. After the all-caste meeting, panchayat members forbade girls from wearing scarfs and keeping mobile phones with them for their own safety.
The diktat was made public by noon. Members of the caste body later announced that the guideline for girls was a collective and conscious decision.
Communal forces left no stone unturned to give communal touch to the purchase of beef cattle on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Youth belonging to Qureshi community even suffered fatal attacks. Police inaction emboldened miscreants to unleash terror. Had the police dealt the situation with an iron hand the miscreants could not have the courage to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere.
A brand ambassador himself for decades, Telugu superstar K Chiranjeevi today took charge of the Tourism Ministry and began selling ‘Incredible India’ by promising to increase the number of tourist arrivals and easing restrictions for film shooting in the country.
It was action from the word ‘start’ for the 57-year-old actor, who resolved to use his “glamour quotient” and decades of experience in the tinsel world to improve tourism infrastructure and increase to 1 per cent the total number of tourists to India worldwide.
An Oil truck crashed into a concrete flyover and exploded on Thursday in Riyadh. 14 people reportedly killed and at least 60 other injured.
According to a report published on Al-Arabiya, the accident had occurred at a junction on Khurays Road, one of the Riyadh’s main arteries and that the blast damaged neighboring houses and cars.
An AFP photographer who were there at the scene said that huge damage in the area with dozens of cars burned. He said he saw civil defence personnel carrying two bodies “completely charred.”
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its complications can kill at any age, warns a new study.
The study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that the prevalence of CKD shoots up with age from four percent between 20 and 39 years to 54 percent among adults who have crossed 75 years.
Bloomberg researchers analysed data involving more than two million participants across Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, from 46 studies conducted from 1972 to 2011, the journal JAMA reported.