All-rounder Yuvraj Singh claimed five wickets even as the visiting England team grabbed a 57-run lead over India A in the three-day practice game that was headed for a tame draw on the final day here today.
England, replying to the home side’s first innings total of 369, were dismissed for 426, half hour after lunch with Yuvraj finishing with impressive figures of 5 for 94 in 26.5 overs.
In a joint statement, leaders of Muslim United Forum, asserted that miscreants are free to unleash terror and police remain mute spectator. People become apprehensive and the peace-loving citizens have to spend sleepless nights. Such incidents happen whenever the power is shifted from government to the hands of bureaucracy. Minorities are being targeted on repeated intervals, destruction is caused to their properties and the protestors are arrested by implicating them in false cases.
US on Thursday dismissed as “hollow” the offer of humanitarian aid for superstorm Sandy victims from Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and for whom the US has offered a bounty of USD 10 million.
“As you all well know, Saeed is believed to be behind organising the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which 166 people were killed, including six Americans. That is why he is actually now the subject of a rewards for justice programme,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.
A large number of people, including activists of religious parties, ransacked and set on fire a girls’ school in Lahore and clashed with police following reports that a question paper for a test had contained blasphemous references to the Prophet (PBUH), police said today.
Activists of groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Islami Jamiat Talba, the students’ wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, and parents of some students were among those who yesterday vandalised three buildings of the Farooqi Girls High School, located near the historic Data Darbar shrine.
Qatar Airways has been directed by a district consumer forum here to pay Rs 80,005 to a flier for loss of his luggage in transit from Delhi to Milan.
The East District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum said that Qatar Airways is liable to reimburse Delhi resident Manish Raj Bhardwaj for loss as his baggage was lost due to negligence of the airline’s handling staff.
Actress Sonali Bendre, who is among Bollywood’s yummy mummies, says there should not be any hoopla around the post-pregnancy weight of celebrity mothers.
In recent times, actresses like Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta and Shilpa Shetty, have found themselves under the scanner for putting on a few kilos after their respective deliveries. But Sonali, who has a son Ranveer, 7, says it’s okay to take your own sweet time to shed it all.
Bollywood’s ‘serial kisser’ Emraan Hashmi is heading to the West. He is set to feature in Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic’s next film, a collaboration of multiple production houses.
Among the banners supporting the project is India’s Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd.
China has the potential to become the world’s largest market for natural gas automobiles with 1.5 million vehicles expected to hit the roads by 2015, according to experts.
While attending a natural gas auto forum in southwest China, Brenda Smith, a council member of the Asia Pacific Natural Gas Vehicles Association, said the world was ready to embrace an era of natural gas automobiles and China was leading the way, Xinhua reported.
Experts at the forum predicted as many as 1.5 million vehicles could be seen on the roads by 2015.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is blown over by the grit and strength of an acid attack victim, a female from Jharkhand, whom he met while shooting for a special episode of his game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati 6” (KBC).
“It has been a most traumatic and disturbing evening on the sets of KBC, where we have recorded the special episode called ‘doosra mauka’ – a second chance, for those that are afflicted by horrendous acts of violence,” Amitabh wrote on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.
As part of its campaign for protection of Waqf properties, Deccan Waqf Protection Society has saved a masjid from demolition. The greedy and corrupt officials of Waqf board had adopted criminal negligence against the conspiracies to demolish an inhabited masjid. But thanks to the vigilance and timely action of Mr. Zahed Ali Khan editor Siasat the masjid was saved from demolition. Editor Siasat sent a delegation of Deccan Waqf Protection Society to Nalgonda district.
Authorities Thursday lifted curfew for 10 hours in Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh and started a probe into the communal violence of last week.
A mass of Faizabad residents poured out of their homes to shop and stock up food and other essentials as the curfew was relaxed at 8 a.m.
District Magistrate Deepak Agarwal also ordered an inquiry into the conspiracy angle that is believed to have sparked off the trouble in the city, which adjoins Ayodhya.
Educational institutions will be reopened, an official said.
Amid protests by Telangana supporters in the region, the Andhra Pradesh Formation Day was being celebrated across the state on Thursday.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy unfurled the National Flag and presided over the main function organised at the NTR stadium here this morning.
Highlighting the numerous welfare schemes being implemented by his government, he said the endeavour is to eliminate poverty and ensure progress in all spheres.
Authorities Thursday lifted curfew for 10 hours in Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh and started a probe into the communal violence of last week.
A mass of Faizabad residents poured out of their homes to shop and stock up food and other essentials as the curfew was relaxed at 8 a.m.
District Magistrate Deepak Agarwal also ordered an inquiry into the conspiracy angle that is believed to have sparked off the trouble in the city, which adjoins Ayodhya.
Educational institutions will be reopened, an official said.
Valuing its “strategic partnership” with India, Washington has expressed the hope that new External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid would be a valued partner in carrying forward their strategic dialogue.
“We highly value our strong strategic partnership with India,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday when asked about Sunday’s reshuffle when Khurshid replaced S. M. Krishna.
NRI beautician Nooriya Haveliwala was today convicted by a special NDPS court for mowing down two persons, including a policeman, while driving her SUV under the influence of alcohol in 2010.
The court, however, acquitted her of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act charges.
The NDPS court judge I M Bohri will pronounce the quantum of punishment later in the day.
—-PTI
It has always been a topic of debate in media that Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be either made working president, vice president, secretary general or will get any bigger post in Congress. But the young Gandhi doesn’t seem to yearn for any top position. Although he is expected to play a major role in the revamp of the AICC, it is said that he wants a share in the decision-making process of the party and not a high-sounding post.
A near-death experience occurs when quantum substances which form the soul leave the nervous system and enter the universe at large, according to a ground-breaking theory proposed by two eminent scientists.
According to this idea, consciousness is a programme for a quantum computer in the brain which can persist in the universe even after death, explaining the perceptions of those who have near-death experiences.
Actress Tabu, whose roles in in films like ‘Maachis’, ‘Chandni Bar’, ‘Maqbool’, ‘Cheeni Kum’ have been widely appreciated, feels proud of charting her course in Bollywood on her own.
“I am proud that we (my sister Farah also an actress and me) had no support system here. We were in new industry, had no guidance but we made it all on our own. I am happy and content with my work and career,” the actress said in an interview here.
“We came from different background…It is a big achievement for me,” she said.
A militant identified as M D Musa of banned Kangleipak Communist Party-Noyon (KCP-N) was arrested by a combined team of commandos and Assam Rifles personnel from an interior village in Thoubal district of Manipur, official sources said on Thursday.
Security personnel launched a search operation at Sangai Yumpham area late last night following reports of movement of some ultras.
While Musa was nabbed, some others escaped under cover of darkness, the sources said.
The following article is taken from Saudi’s famous Arabnews.com published on 31 October.
(Sabria S. Jawhar) Saudi Arabia concluded probably its best and most safe Haj ever this week with nearly four million pilgrims performing their obligation with so few problems. Even at least two babies were born during the most significant time of any Muslim.
High speed winds and persistent rains created havoc in Sri Lanka as two people died and over 50,000 were left marooned on an island as a cyclone made a landfall on neighbouring India.
Disaster management officials said the two deaths were caused after earth mounds fell on houses.
“Over 50,000 people have been affected with two deaths. Some 4600 people are in relief camps numbering 26,” Pradeep Kodippily, a deputy director of the disaster management centre said.
Southern districts of Matara and Galle were badly affected with many roads going under water, Kodippily said.
A Pakistani court on Wednesday adjourned till November 7 the hearing of a case regarding the holding of dual offices by President Asif Ali Zardari following a request from the government’s lawyer.
An associate of Wasim Sajjad, the federal government’s lawyer, informed the four-judge bench headed by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial that lawyers were preoccupied with elections to the Supreme Court Bar Association. He sought the adjournment of the case, following which the Chief Justice put off the hearing till next month.
Mr. Muzaffar Ali Khan general secretary Greater Hyderabad TDP and incharge Malakpet assembly constituency strongly condemned Sabzimandi incident and appealed the people to maintain communal harmony.
He said that Congress culture is riot culture and today there is no form of law and order in the city and state. He reminded that the 9 year rule of TDP was a golden era, free of curfew, which is a witness that it is not the custom of TDP and people live in peace during its rule.
Communal forces are once again active to disrupt peaceful atmosphere of the city and are making repeated attempts to flare up Muslim sentiments. The dust of violence in Musheerabad on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and then incidents of destruction of properties belonging to minority community in Sabzimandi, Kulsoompura had not yet settled, when communal forces began working upon the plan of expansion of Bhagya Laxmi temple, illegally constructed adjacent to Charminar. The work began late at night in a very well orchestrated manner and the plan enjoyed full support of the police.
Veteran activist Anna Hazare Thursday said India Against Corruption leader Arvind Kejriwal may never want to be wealthy, but he is not above being lured by power.
“There is a feeling of sacrifice in him (Kejriwal), he does not think about his family as much as he thinks about the country and society. He does not have greed for money, but now after going to politics another kind of greed… I mean he will not become a minister himself…” Anna Hazare said in an interview to NDTV.