The terrorist act occurred in Dilsukhnagar points to similar things to come in future also if the administration fails to take tough measures, said Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat State convener K. Venkata Subbaiah.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday voiced his support for Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dismissed the latter”s explanation on the Arun Jaitley phone tapping issue.
Khurshid said Shinde had made a clear statement and added that there is nothing further to add to it.
Mitt Romney has said the end of the 2012 presidential race was like getting off a roller coaster. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee said this in their first post-election interview to ”Fox News Sunday”, reports Fox News. Romney”s wife, Ann, described the “adjustment” she and her husband made – going from being surrounding by crowds and Secret Service agents to, after Romney”s loss in November, being by themselves again. She likened it to serving in different positions in their church.
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A seven-year-old girl was raped by an unidentified man inside a Delhi municipal school where she is studying, triggering violent protests today by locals who were cane-charged by police.
The Class II student was sexually assaulted inside the North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run primary school in Mongolpuri L Block of north-west Delhi yesterday and the incident came to light at around 9 AM today when her parents informed police about it.
Top Pakistani politicians have extended full backing to the efforts to initiate dialogue with the Taliban. The political leaders of almost all the parties – excluding Imran Khan”s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) – gathered at the Convention Centre to participate in an All-Party Conference (APC) convened by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), reports The Nation.
Chana dal mixed with minced meat makes for an awesome dish!
Ingredients:
500 gms Minced Meat
100 gms Chana Dal, soaked for 1 hour
225 gms Onions
20 gms Ginger
10 gms Garlic
1/2 Coconut
1 tsp Poppy seeds
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
2 tbsp Coriander seeds
2 Cloves
1 inch piece Cinnamon
4 Red Chillies
1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder
1 bunch Fresh Coriander Leaves
1 tbsp Tamarind pulp
5 tbsp Oil
Salt to taste
Instructions
1. Roast and powder coriander seeds, cumin seeds and red chillies.
2. Grind together ginger-garlic. Grind coconut and poppy seeds separately.
South Korean mobile maker Samsung has lost the legal battle to secure an iPhone ban in Japan.
Samsung had claimed Apple had infringed the rights to one of its 3G technologies.
The Japanese case dates back to 2011 when Samsung filed a claim that Apple had use one of its data transmission techniques without paying a licence fee, the BBC reports.
Apple had counterclaimed that Samsung had no right to the technology and therefore did not deserve a fee.
According to the report, had Apple lost it could potentially have been banned from selling some of its older handsets in Japan.
Researchers have successfully identified genes that are linked to heart disease, which could improve its prediction and diagnosis, says a study.
Studies screening the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals (known as Genome-wide association studies or GWAS) have linked more than 100 regions in the genome to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Inspired by India`s success in eradicating polio, New York Mayor and business magnate Michael Bloomberg today pledged to donate USD 100 million to fund the global campaign against the debilitating disease in countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“It`s unthinkable that polio still exists in the world when we have the tools and technology to protect children from this preventable, debilitating disease,” Bloomberg said while announcing his contribution to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others.
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Clogged arteries could precipitate a stroke, even if you`re considered low risk, says a new study.
A stroke is a condition in which the brain cells suddenly die because of a lack of oxygen, caused by blockage in the blood flow, or the rupture of an artery that feeds the brain.
The patient suddenly loses the ability to speak, or one side of the body can become paralysed.
Petrol prices will go up by Rs.1.40 per litre, excluding taxes, from midnight Friday due to the depreciating rupee and a sharp increase in crude oil prices in global markets, the government-run oil marketing firms said Friday.
This is the second increase in petrol price in the past two weeks. It was hiked by Rs.1.50 per litre Feb 16.
The country’s largest oil marketing firm Indian Oil Corporation said the prices have been revised upward due to the depreciation in the value of rupee and rise in international crude oil prices.
In good news for teens, scientists have discovered that acne bacteria contain some beneficial strains which may act as body`s natural defence to protect the skin from pimples.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), along with those at
Washington University in St Louis and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute have discovered that acne bacteria contain “bad” strains associated with pimples and “good” strains that may protect the skin.
Infants in Japan`s Fukushima prefecture are at greater risk of developing cancer after the March 2011 accident at the Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, the World Health Organization says in a report released here Thursday.
People living near Dai-Ichi were exposed to radiation when the plant suffered severe damage from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck northeastern Japan March 11, 2011.
Moms-to-be, please note! Munching on junk food during pregnancy may raise the risk of your babies becoming addicted to fast food, a new study has claimed.
Pregnant mothers who consume junk food actually cause changes in the development of the opioid signalling pathway in the brains of their unborn children.
This change results in the babies being less sensitive to opioids, which are released upon consumption of foods that are high in fat and sugar.
With her debut Indian film `Abarto` releasing today, well-known Bangladeshi actor Jaya Ahsan today said she hoped the audience here would not reject her as the present-day avatar of Charulata, the character from Satyajit Ray`s film with the same name.
“My character Charu is not exactly a take-off from `Charulata`, and I simply am awestruck about Madhabi Mukherjee`s portrayal of the character. But yes, like every woman of this age, my Charu also feels cooped up in the `abarto` (cycle) and wants to move beyond,” Jaya told reporters.
Actress Prachi Desai, who plays a chic hairdresser in John Abraham starrer `I, Me aur Main`, says the romantic drama is a turning point in her career.
Interestingly, it is for the first time in her five year old career in Bollywod that Prachi, 24, is playing her age onscreen.
Sleepwalking may induce violent behaviors and affect the quality of life among adults, according to a new study.
“We found a higher frequency of daytime sleepiness, fatigue, insomnia, depressive and anxiety symptoms and altered quality of life in patients with sleepwalking compared to the control group,” said Yves Dauvilliers, MD, PhD, the study”s principal investigator and lead author.
“What would usually be considered a benign condition, adult sleepwalking is a potentially serious condition and the consequences of sleepwalking episodes should not be ignored.”
A new less-known social network, Pheed, has become the most downloaded free app in the App Store.
In fact, Pheed is the number one most downloaded free app under the social networking category, outranking both Facebook and Twitter.
It is a social network that works much the same way as Facebook or Instagram, News.com.au reports.
A user needs to sign up, either with an email address or a Facebook or Twitter login.
In this app, you follow people and people follow you back, and you can comment on people’s posts and they can comment on yours.
For the first time, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have observed particles called D-mesons flipping from matter into antimatter and back.
Such “oscillations” are well known among three other particle types, but this is the first time D-mesons have been seen doing it in a single study, the BBC reported.
Mesons are part of a large family of particles made up of the fundamental particles known as quarks.
The protons and neutrons at the centres of the atoms of matter are each made up of three such quarks.
Scientists have discovered new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods in the Madang Lagoon on the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
An international team of researchers led by Jim Thomas discovered the new species of sea slugs (nudibranchs), feather stars (crinoids) and amphipods (genus Leucothoe).
There was more variety of these indicator species found than there is in the entire length of Australia’s 2,574-kilometres Great Barrier Reef, researchers said.
US private company SpaceX will launch its Dragon space freighter on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on its website.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
“The Dragon spacecraft will ferry 575 kg of supplies for the space station crew and for experiments being conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory,” NASA said.
Environmental concerns rank surprisingly low on people’s priorities both in the US and globally, according to a survey, carried out in 33 countries between 1993 and 2010.
“One reason for the relatively low ranking of climate change is that people often believed it did not directly affect them. Climate change is seen more as a country-level problem than as a personal problem,” said Tom W. Smith, director general of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), which conducted the programme.
David Beckham was thrilled to have made his full debut for Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night, claiming that he feels “at home” with his new squad.
Beckham played 85 minutes of PSG`s 2-0 Coupe de France win over Olympique de Marseille at Parc des Princes, and the former England captain was full of praise for the way his team-mates have helped him settle.
“It`s always good to start a match,” he told RMC. “It was a pleasure. I feel at home, I`m playing with super players in a super team. I felt good, but I cannot always play 85 minutes immediately.”
State-owned Punjab National Bank on Friday raised interest rates on fixed deposits of select maturities by up to 1.25 percent.
“…The Bank has decided to realign the interest rates with the prevailing market rates and accordingly the rate of interest on single domestic term deposit of less than Rs 1 crore has been revised from 7.50 percent to 8.75 percent for maturity period of 180 days to less than one year ,” it said in a filing to the BSE.
The revised rates will be effective from March 1, 2013, it added.
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has issued over 69,000 licences for prohibited bore weapons, including Kalashnikovs and sub-machine guns, on the recommendation of members of Parliament over the past five years.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik informed National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, that the federal government had issued 69,473 prohibited bore arms licences during 2008-2012 on the recommendation of parliamentarians.