At least 13 people were killed and 70 wounded when a car bomb went off Tuesday in the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus in front of the old headquarters of Syria’s interior ministry, the state-TV said.
The blast targeted the rear gate of the ministry in al-Marjeh Square, Xinhua reported citing media reports which added that many of those wounded are in critical condition.
The new building of the ministry is located in the Damascus’ district of Kafar Souseh.
Actor Imran Khan was in tears to see his uncle Aamir Khan die in the final scenes of ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’.
Imran played the role of young Raj (essayed by Aamir) in his grandfather’s home production.
The 1988 romantic drama was written and produced by Nasir Hussain and directed by his son Mansoor Khan.
The film starring Aamir Khan as Raj and Juhi Chawla as Rashmi was a huge hit.
A special CBI court here today reserved its order on a revision application seeking the issuance of arrest warrant against IPS officer P P Pande, who is an accused in the 2004 alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
Special CBI Judge Gita Gopi today concluded the hearing and said that she would pronounce the order on May 2.
Rail movement on New Delhi- Amritsar and New Delhi-Jammu route was today disrupted as Northern Railway Men’s Union (NRMU) members squatted on the tracks demanding arrest of persons who allegedly attacked and injured some of their members in a clash two days back.
A senior railway official said that NRMU members sat on a dharna at different places including Jalandhar, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Ferozepur and Jammu Tawi, affecting the rail traffic for about an hour.
Families of chubby youngsters, beware! Men who turn obese in their early 20s are significantly less likely to reach their middle age, a new study published in the British Medical Journal has suggested.
Also such youngsters are also up to eight times more likely to suffer diabetes, potentially fatal blood clots or a heart attack, Daily Mail reported.
It has been well-known how obesity in adulthood could pose a risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But it was not clear earlier whether obesity in early adulthood strengthened that risk.
A Delhi court Tuesday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
District Judge J.R. Aryan convicted the other five accused in the case related to the killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area following the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984.
The Congress leader was facing trial along with Balwan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal, Kishan Khokkar and Captain Bhagmal for allegedly conspiring and inciting a mob against the Sikh community.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday expressed hope that the Finance Bill for the 2013-14 fiscal will be discussed and debated in the Rajya Sabha.
“I hope the Finance Bill is debated in the Rajya Sabha and not passed in a similar manner (as in the Lok Sabha),” Chidambaram said, talking to reporters outside parliament after the Finance Bill was passed in the lower house without discussion.
The Finance Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha without a debate Tuesday after an agreement on this between the government and the opposition.
Flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi and batsman Umar Akmal were the prominent names to be axed from the 15-member Pakistan cricket squad announced for the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy in England.
Chief selector Iqbal Qasim announced the squad yesterday in Lahore after lengthy deliberations although the selectors had finalised it last week and submitted it to the board Chairman for approval.
Noses are thinned. Eyes are tweaked. Faces are re-shaped. Wrinkles, blemishes, even freckles — ever-so-lovely freckles — are history.
An app called Pixtr has been developed, which promises to “put your best face forward.”
What that means is that it automatically cleans you up like a magazine Photoshop artist, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Noses are thinned. Eyes are tweaked. Faces are re-shaped. Wrinkles, blemishes, even freckles — ever-so-lovely freckles — are history.
The distraught family of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan who was brutally assaulted last week, is likely to return home after doctors have reportedly indicated that he was “clinically dead”.
Sarabjit’s lawyer Awais Shiekh told a news channel that Sarabjit’s sister, Dalbir Kaur, had expressed the family’s desire to return to India.
“After the doctors told her about Sarabjit’s condition, she had first told me that they wanted to go back today. But later, in their hotel, they said that they will go back tomorrow,” Shiekh told a news channel from Lahore.
In these ayaat of Quran, Allah (SWT) highlights five characteristics of true believers.
“2. The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His Verses (this Quran) are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses) increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord (Alone);
3. Who perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and spend out of that We have provided them.
4. It is they who are the believers in truth. For them are grades of dignity with their Lord, and Forgiveness and a generous provision (Paradise).”
IT officials are likely to quiz Ekta Kapoor once the search is over.
Income Tax officials on Tuesday conducted searches at Balaji Telefilms’ facilities and the residence of its promoters — producer Ekta Kapoor and her actor-father Jeetendra — in Mumbai for suspected tax evasion.
Sleuths from the department swooped down on seven locations across the city, including the yesteryear star and his daughter’s residence in suburban Juhu, as part of the searches, which began at 0700 hours, I-T sources said.
A practical demonstration of humanity, national integrity and fraternity was witnessed on Sunday, in a small village of Goraipally village in Yadgirgutta, 70 km away from Hyderabad, where G Madhav Reddy a retired official of electricity board and his wife Lakhshmi Reddy performed the marriage of their Muslim daughter Farzana alias Khazana. The couple had adopted Farzana when she was just 8. Farzana’s parents had died during her childhood. She was born in the family of Mohammed Jamal.
Pakistan’s former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf will spend the election day under house arrest with an anti-terrorism court today sending him to judicial custody for a fortnight in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case in 2007.
Musharraf was not presented before the judge for today’s hearing for security reasons, said chief prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency.
A soldier was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by a gang of women for four days before being dumped on a remote mountain range and stoned, police said.
Cops in Zimbabwe say the 25-year-old was willingly picked up April 19 by two women and a man in a Mercedes Benz who offered him a ride to the city of Mutare.
But, after driving in the right direction for an hour, the driver suddenly changes directions — threatening his victim with a knife to keep quiet.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cannot escape accountability on the issue of allocation of coal blocks, the opposition said Tuesday as the government fought allegations that its top law officer had influenced the CBI probe on the case.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was the most corrupt since independence, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Tuesday while stressing that the opposition was not responsible for parliament not transacting any business.
“I want to tell the nation, parliament has failed to transact any business not because the opposition is irresponsible but because the current government is the most corrupt one since independence,” Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said in the lower house when the Finance Bill was taken up for voting.
The BJP Parliamentary Party on Tuesday discussed the issue of the letter shot off by Additional Solicitor General Haren Raval to Attorney General G E Vahanvati in which he alleged that he has been made a “scapegoat” in the matter.
BJP on Tuesday said the “public spat” between the Attorney General and the Additional Solicitor General reinforces its view that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should own up “responsibility” in the coal scam and step down.
The girl was allegedly raped by 35-year-old Firoz Khan in Ghansaur town. The five-year-old girl, who was brutally raped in Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh on April 17, died at a hospital here tonight, a hospital spokesman said.
“The five-year-old girl died of cardiac arrest at around 7:45 PM,” the spokesman of Care Hospital in the city, where the girl was admitted, said.
Her body was sent to the Government Medical College in the city for postmortem, he said.
In scathing criticism of the government’s interference in the CBI probe into the allocation of coal blocks, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked the CBI director to file an affidavit stating the changes made in the draft report vetted by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar.
While underlining the need to liberate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from extraneous influences, an apex court bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha said the affidavit to be filed by the agency’s director should be “absolutely complete and truthful”.
Government has issued the budget under planned expenditure from fiscal year 2013-14 towards Minority Welfare Commissionerate and district offices. For the Minority welfare Commissionerate established in Hyderabad Rs. 63.29 lakh have been released as the first installment. Principal Secretary Social Welfare Incharge Minority Welfare J Raymond Peter issued GO RT 64. The amount will be spent for head quarter expenditure including, rent, salaries, missionary, traveling expenses and other requirements.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court Tuesday dismissed a petition urging it to supervise YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets case.
While dismissing the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by an advocate, the court observed that there was no reason for the court to intervene in the investigations.
T. Ranga Rao, the petitioner, pleaded that the entire investigation into the Jagan’s case should be done under the supervision of the high court.
Getting pregnant while you are still young is known to protect a women against breast cancer, a new study suggests.
Researchers in BioMed Central found that Wnt/Notch signalling ratio is decreased in the breast tissue of mice which have given birth, compared to virgin mice of the same age.
In humans having a child before the age of 20 decreases risk of breast cancer by half.
Adventure enthusiast and Guinness record holder, Soilendra Nath Roy indulging in adventure pursuits from West Bengal died of cardiac arrest while performing a stunt on a steel rope, leaving the amused onlookers stunned.
Roy, reportedly died of cardiac arrest while sliding along the metallic rope over the Sevoke Bridge that connects Dooars region with neighbouring Sikkim on national highway No.31A (NH-31A).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government to restore the independent position of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with regard to its probe of coal block allocations.
It said that the government has shaken the entire process of investigation by asking the CBI Director Ranjit Sinha to show the draft report to the Union Minister for Law and Justice Ashwani Kumar for alleged vetting before its submission to the apex court.
“Why was the apex court kept in dark about the sharing of probe report with the government,” a bench of the Supreme Court asked the CBI counsel.