Kishan a shepherd belonging to Potaipally of Lingampet mandal was attacked by a bear. He sustained serious injuries. The bear injured Kishan’s head, leg and stomach parts when the later took his cattle to forest for grazing. He was shifted to Kamareddy hospital in 108 ambulance where his condition is said to be critical.
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday allocated Rs.3,511 crore to the minorities affairs ministry, an increase of 12 percent over last year.
“I have allocated Rs.3,511 crore to the ministry of minorities affairs. This is an increase of 12 percent over the BE (budget estimate) last year,” Chidambaram announced in his budget speech in Lok Sabha.
“It is 60 percent over the RE (revised estimates) over last year,” he added.
The ministry was allocated Rs.3,135 crore last year, but only spent Rs.2,218.26 crore of it.
Australian batsman Shane Watson has said his side would have to play at their absolute best to win the second Test against India starting here Saturday.
He also believes that the team would have to play its aggressive brand of cricket to do well in the series, after losing the first Test at Chennai.
“We need to win this Test match. There is no doubt. We need to be certainly at our absolute best to beat India,” he told reporters after the visitors had a practice session at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here Thursday.
President Pranab Mukherjee will pay a state visit to Bangladesh from March 3 to 5, at the invitation of the Government of Bangladesh.
This will be Mukherjee”s first visit abroad after his assumption of the office of President.
During his visit, President Mukherjee will call on the President of Bangladesh, Mohammad Zillur Rahman, and receive the Bangladesh Liberation War Honour Award.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, is currently deliberating a major aircraft engine research and development project, sources revealed Thursday.
The project will require an investment of at least 100 billion yuan (about 15.93 billion U.S. dollars), a professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) with knowledge of the project told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The investment would be used mainly for research on technology, designs and materials related to aircraft engine manufacturing, the professor said.
President Barack Obama Wednesday praised the courage of Rosa Parks at a ceremony in the US Capitol where he dedicated the statue in honour of the civil rights activist.
“(I)n a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America – and change the world,” he said of Parks, the first African-American to be honoured with a life-size statue in the Capitol.
Sojourner Truth, one of the first black women to fight against slavery in the US, has a bust located in the Capitol Visitors Center.
Iran”s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told visiting Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari that a much-delayed 7.5 billion-dollar gas pipeline project must go ahead despite US opposition. The Nation quoted Khamenei, as telling Zardari that the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is an important example of Tehran-Islamabad cooperation, and despite hostilities towards the expansion of ties the two countries must overcome this opposition decisively.
Director Umesh Shukla of “OMG: Oh My God!” fame will start shooting his second film “Mere Apne” with actor Abhishek Bachchan soon. He says it is a family oriented movie.
“In the next four weeks, we will confirm Abhishek’s dates and will start shooting. The schedule will complete in one go, it is a 60-day schedule. We will be shooting in Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and London,” Shukla told IANS.
The film has the same title as a 1971 movie. However, Shukla confirmed it is not a remake of any film.
In the absence of any significant market moving proposals in the budget, a benchmark index for Indian equities was trading more than half a percent down in afternoon session Thursday.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s budget proposals like higher taxes on corporates and individuals further weighed on the markets. His plan to liberalise the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) by extending it beyond one year to three years and raising the income limit from Rs.10 lakh to Rs.12 lakh did not help much.
Millions of tonnes of food are dumped into the waste bin each year, as the “best before” date on the package has passed. Much of what is dumped might still be safe to eat. A new device could aid that eat-or-throw decision.
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology, (The Netherlands), Universita di Catania (Italy), CEA-Liten (France) and STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, have invented a circuit that makes testing of food products possible through a plastic analog-digital converter.
Four persons were killed and three others injured today when the car they were travelling in overturned in Andhra Pradesh’s Ranga Reddy district.
The accident occurred at around 1.30 AM, when the driver lost control of the car at a high speed and it turned turtle near Bonguluru of Ibrahimpatnam.
Three persons died on the spot while another victim succumbed on way to hospital, police said adding that three other passengers suffered minor injuries in the mishap.
The deceased have been identified as – Sridhar Reddy, Dhanraj, Narasimha and Narendra (aged between 22-35 years).
Hailing the budget, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it would reverse the pessimistic mood and lay the roadmap for investments as he expressed confidence of returning to eight per cent growth within three years.
Singh listed fiscal deficit, inflation and current account deficit as three barriers that can affect the realisation of the growth potential of the economy.
Indigenously developed ‘Pinaka’ rockets were on Thursday successfully test-fired from a multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) by an armament establishment from a base at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from here.
“Three rounds of Pinaka rockets were successfully tested today,” defence sources said, adding some more trials were expected to be conducted on Friday.
On January 30 and 31, this year, seven rounds of “Pinaka” rockets were tested from the same base.
‘Pinaka’, which has undergone several tough tests since 1995, has already been inducted into the armed forces.
Five Bangladeshi nationals were sentenced by a Fast Track court here to five years rigorous imprisonment for non-possession of visa.
Additional Session Judge (Fast Track), R K Sahoo, while convicting the Bangladeshis yesterday also imposed a penalty of Rs 1,000 each for commission of the offence in 2007.
In the event of failure to pay the penalty amount, the foreign nationals would have to undergo additional jail term of three months.
The convicts are Arif Khan (26), Paus Khan (25), Md Abul Basar Mulla (31), Md Asadul Mulla (25) and Sk Zahir (24).
A 12-year-old boy immolated himself in Bihar after his father snatched his mobile telephone that he had allegedly bought with stolen money, police said Thursday.
Nitish Kumar alias Golu committed suicide in Pasewarh village in Siwan district, about 150 km from here, late Wednesday.
The incident happened after his father asked him why he bought a second hand mobile phone after stealing Rs.500, police official Ramagya Rai said. The victim was a Class V student.
—IANS
An eight-year-old who had reportedly gone missing from a marriage function two days ago was allegedly raped and her body was found in a pit in Chuabepur area here, police said.
The naked body of the victim was found by villagers yesterday in the pit near a cold storage, they said.
The victim had gone missing from a marriage function here on Tuesday, they said.
A postmortem has revealed that her private body parts were badly wounded, they said.]
—PTI
Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday Finance Minister P.Chidambaram had done a good job in the union budget. He said that considering the overall economic situation, the finance minister had been fair to the defence sector in allocating Rs.203,672 crore (over Rs.2 trillion) in 2013-14.
“Taking into account the difficult economic situation both at home and abroad, the finance minister has done a good job. The measures that he has outlined for the rejuvenation of the economy while ensuring inclusive growth are indeed commendable,” Antony said.
A powerful landmine planted on a state highway was recovered and defused in West Singhbhum district on a tip off by a hard-core Naxal arrested by the security personnel, police said on Thursday.
A landmine weighing around 40 to 45 kg was planted on the state highway between Chotanagra-Manoharpur road to target the security personnel, Superintendent of Police of West Singhbhum, Pankaj Kamboj.
The landmine was recovered yesterday following the arrest of the chairman of Krantikari Kishan Committee, a frontal organisation of CPI(Maoist) Vishnu Cherwa, Kambhoj said.
Taliban fighters on Thursday bombed four schools in the restive Mohmand tribal region of Pakistan, the latest in a series of attacks that has destroyed hundreds of state-run educational institutions.
No one was injured in the blasts that destroyed the schools at about 2:30 am, officials said.
The Taliban have destroyed over 100 schools in Mohmand Agency, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal districts.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan is opposed to co-education and the curriculum of state-run schools, which it has described as “un-Islamic”.
In the midst of a major modernisation drive, Defence Ministry today got a 14 per cent hike in its budget as Finance Minister P Chidambaram gave it Rs 2,03,672 crore for 2013-14 with a promise to provide any additional fund required for national security.
Today’s allocation is up by Rs 25,169 crore from last year’s revisited estimate of Rs 1,78,503 crore. The budget estimate was Rs 1,93,407 crore but Rs 14,904 crore was slashed by the Finance Ministry owing to the strain on the economy.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has proposed a hike in India’s health budget by over 28 percent in 2013-14 to Rs.37,330 crore (Rs.373 million), with special focus on medical education, training and research.
Making the announcement Thursday, Chidambaram said the focus of the government was “health for all”.
He said the new National Health Mission that combines the rural mission and the proposed urban mission would get Rs.21,239 crore (Rs.212 million), a hike of 24.3 percent over the revised estimates.
A 38-year-old mason has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Delhi court for raping a young woman who had come from Madhya Pradesh with her mother to work as a labourer at a construction site here.
Additional Sessions Judge M C Gupta awarded the jail term to Uttar Pradesh native Raj Kumar Gupta for raping the woman thrice, at her rented accommodation, in March 2010.
The conviction and imprisonment of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in a Pakistani jail for alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks, was “an extraordinary miscarriage of justice”, his lawyer has said in a new book. Sarabjit was sentenced to death in 1990 after being convicted of alleged involvement in bombing in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people.
Sonam Kapoor, whose first film “Saawariya” was loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’ short story ‘White Nights’, has bought the film rights of one of Anuja Chauhan’s novels for the sheer love of its female characters.
Kapoor, who describes herself as someone “who lives to eat and read in that order”, says the book has characters that exit in reality and that’s what prompted her to buy the film rights.
The Central Government has taken a number of initiatives and steps supporting such initiatives being taken by non-government organizations to ensure the dignity and safety of women.
In the backdrop of incidences of violence against women, which challenges liberal and progressive credentials of our country, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram pledged to do everything possible to empower women and to keep them safe and secure.
Presenting the Budget 2013-14 in the Lok Sabha today, Chidambaram proposed to set-up Nirbhaya Fund.