The exhibition and sale programme of women entrepreneurs’ articles has been extended by a day. It will continue today also. This has been done taking into consideration public demand. In order to make woman self-dependent, it is essential to make available marketing facilities to them. Women can produce many useful articles sitting at home by utilizing their free time.
Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will arrive on a day’s visit to her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli on Monday. The Congress leader would be inaugurating an FM radio station of Aakashwani, the newly-constructed premises of the rail coach factory, and a post office.
She would also be laying the foundation stone of a girls’ education institute, and kick start a solar energy lighting project.
She is set to preside over a district level meeting too, before leaving for New Delhi in the evening.
1st “Du Ba Du” (Face To Face) programme in Karimnagar would be held in Karminagar under the auspices of Minorities Development Forum in collaboration with Muslim Welfare Committee of Karimnagar very soon. Karimnagar is the second district after Mahboobnagar district which is holding this programme in the districts. This programme is being organized to finalise marriages of the Muslim girls.
The 31-year-old British woman who jumped off a hotel balcony in Agra to escape an alleged sexual assault has vowed to return to India to give evidence against her attackers but said she will “never” travel alone again.
Jessica Davies, a dental hygienist from Greenwich was speaking of her ordeal for the first time since her return to Britain after she cut-short her back-packing tour of Asia.
A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing thousands of pounds of damage to more than 100 cars in two streets in Bristol.
BBC said the cars in Cotham area had their wing mirrors damaged.
Avon and Somerset Police said damage had been caused to vehicles parked in Hampton Road, and in neighbouring streets.
Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will arrive on a day’s visit to her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareily Monday. The Congress leader would be inaugurating an FM radio station of Aakashwani, the newly constructed premises of the rail coach factory, and a post office.
She would also be laying the foundation stone of a girls’ education institute, and kick start a solar energy lighting project.
She is set to preside over a district level meeting too, before leaving for New Delhi in the evening.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he looked forward to the 5th BRICS Summit in Durban in finding ways to revive growth, sustain macroeconomic stability and push investments.
In his departure statement ahead of leaving for Durban Monday, the prime minister said he hoped to discuss a host of issues with leaders of other BRICS nations, as also those from Africa invited to the summit, during his bilateral meetings on the margins of the event March 26-27.
(Zaheeruddin Ali Khan) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves today on a four-day visit to Durban in South Africa to attend a five-nation Summit on March 26 and 27 that could launch a BRICS development bank and discuss ways to reform governance in international financial institutions.
Accompanied by a high-level delegation including Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, Media including Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, Managing Editor, The Siasat Daily.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is all set to appear in person before a Sessions Court in the 2002 hit-and-run case on March 25.
He returned from the USA on Saturday night and will appear before the Court on Monday, sources close to the superstar told PTI.
The case would come up for the first time before the Sessions Court after a Magistrate transferred the matter to that Court by charging the actor with a more serious charge of ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’.
The 31-year-old British woman who jumped off a hotel balcony in Agra to escape an alleged sexual assault has vowed to return to India to give evidence against her attackers but said she will never travel alone again.
Jessica Davies, a dental hygienist from Greenwich, was speaking of her ordeal for the first time since her return to Britain after she cut short her back-packing tour of Asia.
Myanmar police have arrested 18 suspects in connection with a riot that killed at least 32 people and which left over 9,600 homeless, the information ministry said.
Ten other suspects are being hunted down for the riot in Meikhtila in northern Mandalay region that took place March 20 to 22, Xinhua reported.
Sources said 17 other suspects linked with arson in Yamethin, about 54 km from Meikhtila, were also detained by police.
Dozens of houses and religious buildings were reportedly set on fire in Yamethin Saturday night.
Members of Left parties in Andhra Pradesh, who began an indefinite fast against the power tariff hike, today warned of intensifying their stir if the state government failed to “respond positively”. CPI state secretary K Narayana and his CPI(M) counterpart B V Raghavulu, who started the indefinite fast yesterday, demanded that the government immediately roll back its move to hike power tariff and stop collecting the fuel surcharge adjustment. They said that the Congress government should not be stubborn in its response to the demand to relieve the burden imposed on common men.
The most-detailed map of the universe created through the observations made by Planck space telescope has an Indian element to it.
Three Indian scientists– Sanjit Mitra, Tarun Souradeep and their graduate student Aditya Rotti — from the Inter- University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, were a part of the team.
On March 21, the most-refined picture of the early cosmos after the Big Bang, measured by the European Space Agency’s Planck mission, was released in ESA headquarters, Paris.
Noting that no party can come to power at the Centre on its own, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said coalition politics has come to stay in the country and asked like-minded parties to come together. Samajwadi Party, with 22 MPs in the Lok Sabha, provides crucial outside support to Congress-led UPA-II at Centre and Yadav’s statement assumes significance ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. “Coalition government is the need of the country as no single party can come to power at Centre on its own strength,” he told a public meeting here.
An 18-year-old girl escaped with minor injuries after her boyfriend allegedly poured a chemical, suspected to be acid, on her after she refused his sexual advances. Though the incident took place at an isolated spot under Bheemunipatnam police station area yesterday night, it came to light today morning after she lodged a police complaint. P Ganesh, a first year BTech student and a girl, a native of Narasanapeta area in Srikakulam district had eloped from their homes to get married against their parent’s wishes and reached Bheemunipatnam area in the city on Saturday evening, police said.
Three more persons today succumbed to their injuries taking the toll in Friday’s explosion at a house in Ranga Reddy district’s Vikarabad town to six today. One woman succumbed to burn injuries at a government hospital here. Aged around 35 years, Taslima Begum, undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital died today, police said. Two others, identified as Iliyas (9) and Amina Begum (aged around 21), were also among those who succumbed to their injuries in another hospital this morning.
A married woman has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her neighbour for over a period of ten months, police said on Sunday. A case of rape has been registered against Dinesh (35) based on the complaint filed by the victim at the Nangla Enclave police station in Faridabad, they said.
Thirteen years ago, a Muslim housewife in Kerala had stopped an old and destitute Brahmin widow from jumping in front of a train and ending a life for which she saw no hope.
The Muslim woman, then 34, took the 76-year-old high-caste Namboothiri woman home, gave her shelter and sowed the seeds for an unusual relationship that bloomed despite their religious and cultural differences.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh today came out in strong support of actor Sanjay Dutt, sentenced under the Arms Act in the 1993 Mumbai terror blast case, saying he had committed the crime at a “young age”.
“Sanjay Dutt is not a criminal, he is not a terrorist. Sanjay Dutt, at a young age, in the atmosphere of that time, thought that perhaps the way Sunil Dutt had been raising his voice against communalism and favoured the minorities, then perhaps he could be attacked,” Singh, an AICC General Secretary, told reporters here.
Actress Esha Deol feels that making remake of 1975 blockbuster ‘Sholay’ would remain a pipe-dream for Bollywood as no contemporary actress could step into the shoes of “Basanti”, the role epitomised by her mother, veteran actress Hema Malini.
“It is not possible to remake ‘Sholay’ as nobody would be able to do the role of ‘Basanti’ as done by Hema Malini. There is no alternative in the film industry who can play the role of ‘Basanti’ like Hema Malini”, Esha told reporters on the sidelines of a function here today.
Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who is working alongside Aamir Khan in his upcoming film Dhoom 3, says the star is like a child on the sets of the movie.
Abhishek Bachchan is reprising his role of ACP Jai Dixit for the third time in the action franchise while Aamir plays the main antagonist.
“It’s absolutely brilliant to be working with Aamir. You get to learn so much. He is so much fun on the sets. He is like a child on the set, he is so involved and enthusiastic about everything,” Abhishek Bachchan said.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, the co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, will reportedly add glamour and extravaganza to the opening ceremony of the sixth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) with his performance.
SRK’s Jab Tak Hai Jaan co-star’ Katrina Kaif is set to join the actor for her maiden performance in Kolkata and the organisers, Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt Ltd, have also roped in international rapper, Pitbull.
The ceremony will take place at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on April 2.
(Pervez Bari): As speculated noted Muslim cleric of national and international repute Maulana Syed Mohammad Rabey Hasani Nadwi has been unanimously re-elected president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, (AIMPLB), an apex body of Muslims, for the fifth time on Saturday in its 23rd annual conference which is being held here in Jamia Arabia Siraj-ul-Uloom at the outskirts of historical town Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh.
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday hit out at the government saying “increasing corruption” and price rise will “sink” the UPA and its continuance at the Centre was just a matter of days.
“The continuance of the Congress government at the Centre is just a matter of days. Increasing corruption and price rise will sink this government,” Singh said addressing the party’s Grameen Akrosh Rally in Bawana, Delhi.
Singh praised BJP state chief Vijay Goel, saying like former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, Goel was a rural leader who would fulfil his promises.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly today said Sachin Tendulkar should play as long as he wants.
There is a buzz that Tendulkar, who will turn 40 next month, may have played his last on Indian soil when he batted at Kotla as there’s not a Test scheduled in the country for the next one year.
“Only time will say (about Tendulkar’s retirement). He can play as long as he wants, be it South Africa, New Zealand or wherever,” Ganguly said here today.