Two gold watches on teenage singer Justin Bieber’s wrist spoke volumes about his bank balance.
The 18-year-old wore one watch in one hand each,as he was seen making an exit from The Roadhouse, a late night bar in Covent Garden here, reports thesun.co.uk.
The singer was seen enjoying a night out as he went to various partying places and was later joined by rapper Will.i.am.
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China’s safety watchdog has said it will suspend or shut down operations in over 5,000 non-coal mines this year over their failure to meet required safety standards, Xinhua reported.
The government will take steps to reduce accidents in non-coal mines and keep the death toll below 900 this year, the state administration of work safety said in a statement.
It said it will order mines to enhance safety measures, improve their emergency response mechanisms and build monitoring systems.
At least six people died and 23 injured when an overcrowded bus fell into a river after overturning in China’s Henan province Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
The accident occurred in the morning in Luanchuan county, some 300 km from provincial capital of Zhengzhou, the traffic police said.
The bus, with 34 people on board, had a loading capacity of 19, sources said.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Mauritious have held discussion to review issues of mutual interest and explore ways to strengthen cooperation in investment and trade sectors.
The meet was held here Wednesday between UAE’s Director of Economic Affairs and International Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry, Jassem Mohammed Al Qasimi and Ali Mansoor, financial secretary of the Ministry for Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) of Mauritious.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday slammed Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju for his ‘unsubstantiated’ remarks on curbs on press freedom in the state and trashed the PCI fact finding report.
“Katju has cross the lines behoving dignity of his constitutional post and attacked me without substance for muzzling freedom of press in Bihar,” Kumar told the assembly.
Kumar criticised Katju for his ‘biased’ and ‘motivated’ attack on him in ‘brazen violation’ of the dignity of the constitutional post that the retired Supreme Court judge held.
Seventh Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Nampally Criminal Court issued orders to Kanchan Bangh Police Station to register a criminal case against Praveen Togadia. Mr. Mohammed Arshad, resident of Hafiz Baba Nagar had submitted a petition, Mr. Arshad stated that Praveen Togadia made venomous speeches against the Muslims.
India and Israel on Wednesday agreed to enhance dialogue and cooperation in the area of counter terrorism.
During the 8th meeting of India-Israel Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter terrorism that was held here today, both sides exchanged perceptions of threats emanating from terrorism and emphasized their determination to fight the menace.
The Bombay High Court today rejected the bail plea of Deputy Superintendent of Police M L Parmar, one of the accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case and subsequent killing of his wife Kausarbi.
Along with Parmar, co-accused – DySP Narendra Amin and police Inspector Balkrishna Rajendra Prasad – had also moved the court seeking bail in the same case.
Justice A M Thipsay, while rejecting Parmar’s bail, called for Amin’s medical report and kept his bail petition for pronouncement of order after a week.
Actress Prachi Desai will be seen playing the role of a princess in the third instalment of Vikram Bhatt’s horror franchise ‘1920’.
The 24-year-old, who made a successful transition from television to films with projects like ‘Rock On’, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai’ and ‘Bol Bachchan’, says she has never played safe in life.
“I am doing Vikram Bhatt’s ‘1920’. It is a horror film, but I will not be wearing white clothes and coloured lenses or scary make-up.
I play a princess in that film. I will have a wide range of looks in the film,” Prachi told PTI.
The principal of a missionary school was today arrested for allegedly trying to rape four minor students in Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja district, police said. “Wilson Toppo (42), the principal of Ashadeep Missionary school, has been arrested for attempting to rape the students, aged between 5 to 7 years, in Kalyanpur village under Darima police station limits of the district, based on the complaint of their parents,” Sarguja Superintendent of Police Sundarraj P told PTI over phone. “Of the four victims, two were studying in KG1 and two others in class I and II each,” he said.
Telangana political JAC convener Prof. Kodandaram has said ‘Sadak Bandh’ will be organized on the Hyderabad-Kurnool highway with at least 10,000 people at International airport at Shamshabad.
Telangana Employees JAC leader Srinivas Goud said the movement would be intensified in protest against the false assurance made by the UPA government on Telangana issue. (NSS)
Stating that they have not looted Rs one lakh crores like YSR Congress chief and Kadapaq MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and did not involve in any scandals like the ruling Congress party, TRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA T. Harish Rao on Wednesday asked why they (TRS leaders) should by arrested by the police.
Kadapa MP and YSRCP President Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy received yet another jolt when the Enforcement Directorate was accorded permission to confiscate his properties to the tune of Rs.120 crores.
The candidates, who got admissions into Intermediate and SSC (APOSS) courses and eligible to appear for the Intermediate and SSC (APOSS) Public Examinations scheduled from April 25, 2013 but could not pay the examination fee in time, can avail the opportunity of “Tatkal Scheme” from February 23 to 28 for paying the examination fee. They have to pay the Tatkal fee of Rs 1000 for Intermediate and Rs 500 for SSC in addition to the normal examination fee.
For more information, they can contact AI-Coordinator of their respective study centre. (NSS)
In order to overcome the power supply constraints to some extent and to protect the most precious natural resources for future generations, the State Energy Conservation Mission (SECM) has decided to take forward the energy conservation movement to the door steps of public in a big way in addition to other measures like optimisation of generation, purchase of power from outside and so on.
YSR Congress MLA Balineni Srinivasa Reddy has alleged that it was the Congress which got the election officer Chandrasekhar kidnapped as it feared the victory of his party in the DCCB elections.
Talking to the media here on Wednesday, he said the ruling party imposed a ban on all the places where the YSR Congress was strong. Alleging that even the officials were siding with the ruling party, he said his party had no confidence that the elections held for tomorrow would be impartial. (NSS)
YSR Congress honorary president Vijayamma gave a clean chit to her son-in-law and Christian evangelist Br. Anil Kumar.
Talking to the media here on Wednesday, she said Anil had nothing to do with Rakshana Steels. She also expressed the hope that her son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would come out of jail soon.
Chandrasekhar, Election Officer of the Kadapa DCCB election, who was allegedly kidnapped suddenly surfaced in the Collector’s bungalow on Wednesday.
Talking to the media on the occasion, he said some persons told him that ministers had summoned him and had taken him away.
Chintamneni Prabhakar, TDP MLA of Denduluru in West Godavari district surrendered before the Eluru court on Wednesday morning.
Family court remanded him to judicial custody till March 6. Chintamneni surrendered before the court on the directions of the AP high court.
Sai Raj, TDP MLA of Ichapuram in Srikakulam district, on Wednesday joined the YSR Congress party in the presence of honorary president Y S Vijayamma at the party office.
A massive search has been launched by the Cyberabad police to trace an auto-rickshaw and two persons who made a vain bid to kidnap a 20-year old techie from Ameerpet on Tuesday night.
The 20-year old woman, Nikhala more, working in a private firm was waiting along with her other colleagues at Ameerpet when some unidentified persons abducted her and fled towards Madhapur. The friends of the techie raised an alarm and also informed her parents about the incident. The police were alerted by the parents following which a vigorous search was made and even road barricades were set up.
TRS legislators called on Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum alleging harassment of the people in Mahabubnagar in connection with the proposed “sadak bandh” programme in the district.
The TRS legislators alleged that the police were binding over the local people in the town and also subjecting them to harassment. The Home Minister assured the TRS delegation that she would look into the matter and also discuss the issue with the Chief Minister regarding the proposed “sadak bandh” program.
A tense situation prevailed over the DCCB elections in Kadapa with the sudden disappearance of the election officer and the YSRCP leaders accusing the Congress leadership of enacting a “kidnap drama” of the officials to postpone the elections.
As a matter of the election officer Chandrashekar’s wife had lodged a compliant in the One Town Police Station that her husband had been missing since Tuesday night.
The two-day nation-wide strike called by 11 major central and state trade unions commenced in the state on Wednesday paralyzing banking operations, affecting coal production and disrupting transport services.
The strike has been called by BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC and other trade unions in pursuance of their 10-point charter of demands which includes concrete steps to contain inflation, measures for employment generation, universal social security and making the minimum wage of Rs. 10,000 per month along withy daily allowance.
The Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) today asked the state government to order distribution companies to take prior permission before giving any additional subsidy on power supply to the agriculture sector. The industry body which is facing the heat of power cuts said the subsidy element to agriculture has been continuously going up over the last few years.