In a major relief to Iqama violators in Kingdom of Saudi Arabiya, King Abdullah today ordered the Interior and Labour Ministries to give a grace period of three months for iqama and labor rule violators to correct their status.
In a report published by Arab News on 6th, the King also instructed that those who fail to correct their status within this period would be penalized in accordance with the law.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday stressed the need for the protection and promotion of Urdu language.
Addressing the Urdu Heritage Carvan’s Conference at Jubilee Hall, the Chief Minister said that steps must be taken at mass level to promote both Urdu and Telugu languages in the State. Quoting a UNICEF report, he said nearly 50 per cent of regional languages would be lost in the next 20 years. Therefore, he said the regional languages should be linked with employment for their effective growth and preservation.
Cities like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka are highly vulnerable to rising sea level due to climate changes as they are located in the coastal areas, said R.K. Pachauri the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) here Saturday.
“These cities, with huge population, are mega deltas, and they are likely to face the impact of climate change,” Pachauri told media persons on the sidelines of the convocation at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta.
IANS) BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Saturday said Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh are both saying they are not in the prime minister’s race as they know their party would not win in 2014.
“Both Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh are saying they are not in the race for prime minister’s post because they know there party will not win. It is a case of sour grapes,” said Naqvi at a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally here.
Naqvi also called Gandhi the “crown prince of corruption”.
Islamabad, Apr 6 (ANI): Former Pakistan Test captain Wasim Akram has said that politics must be kept separate from sports following India stalling all bilateral ties after the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which were blamed on Pakistani-based militants. Akram, who was the bowling coach of Kolkata Knight Riders until last year, further said that India should resume all sporting ties with Pakistan and allow Pakistani cricketers to play in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament, the Daily Times reports.
Islamabad, Apr 6 (ANI): Pakistan’s tour to West Indies this season appears to be in jeopardy after the cricket boards from both the countries failed to find a suitable window for the tour. Pakistan, which was originally scheduled to play two Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s in the Caribbean in June and July, is unlikely to go ahead with its tour following a clash of plans between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the Daily Times reports.
Lahore, Apr 6 (ANI): Former national captain Younis Khan has been suggested to quit one-day cricket and take up coaching of the national side by former Pakistan wicketkeeper Rashid Latif. According to Latif, it is high time for Khan to retire from international ODI games since his career looked to be over in this form of the game after his dropping from the Champions Trophy probables, the Dawn reports.
Mathura, Apr. 6 (ANI): The wife of Indian Army soldier Lance Naik Hemraj, who was killed by Pakistani troops near the Line of Control (LoC) in the first week of January this year, has complained of being duped of Rs. 10 lakh by an unidentified person in the town of Kosi.
The incident took place on Friday when Hemraj”s widow Dharmvati was returning to her village with her brother-in-law after withdrawing the amount from the bank.
Washington, April 6 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s eldest son- Prince- was recently spotted out on a date with Remi Alfalah, who is believed to be a Kuwaiti princess.
Sources told TMZ.com that the two were photographed together and appeared to be having fun while bowling at PINZ in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
A source at the Kuwaiti consulate told the publication that Alfalah is indeed a princess and is a junior at the private school that Prince also attends.
Alfalah was dropped off at the bowling alley in a black SUV but the 16-year-old drove her home. (ANI)
Washington, April 6 (ANI): Xenophobia, or the intolerance of foreigners, is no longer the main reason why migrants feel unhappy.
Instead, economic factors like as unemployment, low income and health problems were found to be the strongest predictor of lowered well-being, a new study has found.
London, Apr 6 (ANI): Men are generally happier than women, but the ladies are more satisfied with their sex lives, a new study suggests.
The conclusions were drawn from a survey that found men had a brighter outlook due to earning more and fulfilment at work, among other factors.
However women were happier with more personal aspects of their lives, including health and sex, the Telegraph reported.
Concerns about money were most likely to prevent both sexes feeling content, with 46 percent of people worried about their finances, the study found.
Thane, Apr 6 (ANI): In a major breakthrough, police on Saturday finally arrested the absconding builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, who were on the run for the past couple of days, after 72 people had died and over 60 were injured in what is being termed as Maharashtra”s worst building collapse in a decade. One of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch.
A Tihar Jail official Saturday denied in a Delhi court the allegation that Dec 16 gang-rape accused Vinay Sharma was beaten by inmates while the accused claimed threat to life and refused to return to prison after the hearing.
The jail official said Sharma’s right arm was fractured “due to a fall in police van while returning to jail from court”.
Amid high drama, Sharma, whose arm was bandaged, pleaded before Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna not to send him to Tihar jail after the court proceeding as he feared for his life.
Gujarat Chief Minister and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party”s (BJP) newly formulated Central Parliamentary Board, Narendra Modi on Saturday in Ahmedabad attacked Rahul Gandhi”s ”beehive” comment saying, “For you (Congress) India may be a beehive, but for us India is our mother.” On the occasion of the 33rd foundation day of the BJP, Modi said, “Today we have completed 32 years of our glorious history.
A gang helping class 10 and 12 students in Haryana’s Rohtak district to cheat in examinations has been busted and five people, including the superintendent of an examination centre, have been arrested, police said Saturday.
“The Haryana Police has busted a gang which used to help students use unfair means during examinations for Class 10 and 12 of National Open School being held at a school in a village in district Rohtak and arrested five people, including superintendent of the centre,” a police spokesman said here.
Congress today attacked L K Advani’s remark that BJP workers should not be apologetic about Ram temple issue and said the opposition party raises the issue only to capture power.
“Whenever polls are near, BJP keeps raking up the Ram temple issue. They did not talk about it when they were in power for six years at the Centre. People no longer trust them on the issue. It is only to capture power that BJP rakes it up,” party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is nursing a shoulder injury he suffered on the sets of his upcoming film ” Chennai Express” and may have to undergo a surgery later.
But he will go ahead with his performance at the maiden Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA). His act is one of the most anticipated segments and the 47-year-old star is planning to entertain his numerous fans by taking some precaution.
“I have been shooting for 14 days non-stop and on top of it I hurt myself. My shoulder is hurting a bit,” SRK told PTI in an interview.
Raking up the Ram temple issue, BJP leader L K Advani today asked partymen not to be apologetic for the Ayodhya movement and instead take pride in it.
Advani also referred to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s recent words of praise for him, which had surprised many, and said that people should not hesitate to speak the “right thing” as “the world will accept it”.
“When people believe and talk of our Ayodhya issue and agitate over it, you should not be apologetic over it, ever. You should take pride in it,” Advani told partymen.
BJP workers in Goa have been instructed to pin or paste the party symbol, a blooming lotus, on residences and homes across Goa as part of its awareness drive – and the more lotuses a worker distributes the more he or she will rise in the party ranks.
“It is our party symbol which we want to reach out to as many Goans as possible. Those party workers who distribute the most amount of lotus symbols will be given incentives. He will be given a better position in the party,” state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president Wilfred Mesquita Mesquita said Saturday.
Advertisers have warned Facebook that its new Home application should not avoid irritating users with its adverts.
Angus Wood from iProspect, a digital marketing agency said that ‘invasive, tedious or over-frequent marketing in such a personal space will be an instant switch-off for Home users’.
Wood pointed out that the closer you come to the consumer, the softer you need to tread, and the bar for content quality will be higher than ever, the Telegraph reports.
BJP’s Delhi unit chief Vijay Goel said Saturday L.K. Advani will head a party government after the next election but later sought to clarify he meant it would be formed under the veteran leader’s guidance.
“The next government at the centre will be formed under the leadership of L.K. Advani and nobody else,” he said on the occasion of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foundation day.
Social networking giant Facebook has rejected suggestions its new smartphone software Home could destroy privacy of users.
Industry experts raised fears over the new software’s potential to gather masses of personal data.
But Mark Zuckerberg”s site later dismissed the claims and stressed Home was not a new means of collecting information, the Daily Star reports.
It came after the software drew criticism over the presence of advertisements, which pop up in mobile news feeds.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said corruption is a threat to the democratic fabric of our country, and added that it would frustrate the efforts to bring equity to all its citizens.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat in their Indian Premier League match against the Chennai Super Kings at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Saturday.
The squads:
Mumbai Indians: Ricky Ponting (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith, Mitchell Johnson, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha.
Chennai Super Kings: Murali Vijay, Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina, S. Badrinath, M.S. Dhoni (captain/wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, R. Ashwin, Dirk Nannes, Ben Laughlin, Ankit Rajpoot.
Rajasthan Royals beat the Delhi Daredevils by five runs in a thrilling Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Saturday.
The home side failed to chase down Royals’ 165//7 in their quota of 20 overs, finishing at 160/6.
—IANS