Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today vowed to ensure 50 per cent representation to women in AICC and other party wings as he held his first formal interaction with newly-appointed party office bearers, the team set up by him for the 2014 Lok Sabha poll.
“Gandhi talked about how to ensure 50 per cent representation to women in AICC…It’s not about reservation. It’s about their representation.
TV star Rohit Roy, the wild card entrant in ‘Jhalak Dikhla Jaa’, hopes to please Remo D’souza as he believes the choreographer is hard to impress.
The sixth season of the talent hunt is being judged by dancing diva Madhuri Dixit, filmmaker Karan Johar and D’souza.
“Remo is a very old friend of mine, but I’m scared of him as he is the toughest one to pleased on the show,” Rohit told PTI.
Rohit and D’Souza had worked together in many films including ‘Kaante’, ‘Just Married’, ‘Delhi Heights’ and ‘Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena’.
Rohit, 44, will be entering ‘Jhalak Dikhla Jaa’ next week.
President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to open new channels of dialogue with Brazil’s youth, the dominant demographic in nationwide protests that have rocked the country over the past two weeks.
Rousseff and Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante met in the capital city of Brasilia with leaders from 25 youth organizations, including student and labor unions, as well as with gay rights advocates as part of the Brazilian leader’s continuing talks with different interest groups.
Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.
The mummies — including three princesses — and other items date back to a pre-Inca culture called the Wari, who peaked between the seventh and 11th centuries, researchers said.
“This is a unique find,” said archaeologist Giersz Milosz of the University of Warsaw on Friday (yesterday). “This is the first Peruvian discovery of a royal tomb from the Wari culture,” of which little is known.
DMK leader Kanimozhi on Saturday thanked Congress president Sonia Gandhi for supporting her in getting elected to Rajya Sabha earlier this week.
“I was here to offer my party’s thanks to Sonia Gandhi for supporting us,” she told reporters.
DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s daughter was accompanied by senior party leader and former Union minister T R Baalu during her meeting with Gandhi.
She was re-elected to Rajya Sabha with Congress support from Tamil Nadu after a contest with actor Vijayakanth’s DMDK candidate A R Elangovan on Thursday.
In a dastardly act, some men allegedly chopped off a hand of a minor girl, who was a witness in kidnapping case of her younger sister by them, in the capital city.
An FIR has been registered with Kadamkuan police station in the case on the basis of statement of girl’s father, city police said on Saturday.
As per the complaint, the incident happened late Thursday night in a bylane near Rajendranagar Railway terminal.
Andhra Pradesh State Information Commission imposed penalties of Rs 37,500 on eleven Public Information Officers, for “not acting reasonably and diligently” in supplying the information.
State Information Commissioner C Madhukar Raj on Friday said in an official press release that 260 appeal cases were disposed in the month of June.
“The disposal of these cases resulted in issuing show-cause notices to 103 PIOs, where it was found that the information was denied to the applicants for long periods without adequate reasons,” the release said.
The life-saving ‘108’ ambulance service proved fatal for three persons, who were travelling in an autorickshaw near Warangal in Andhra Pradesh.
An ambulance van, which was part of 108 Emergency Response Services, dashed into an autorickshaw coming from opposite direction at Aishwarya Garden on the city’s outskirts around midnight last night. Three persons travelling in the autorickshaw were killed and two others injured, police said.
Two of the victims died on way to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital here, while the third one breathed his last during treatment, they said.
A leading think tank here has observed despite spending cuts of 11.5 billion pounds (over $17 billion) as announced by British Chancellor George Osborne for 2015-16, it may not not be enough to balance government budgets in the medium term.
According to Carl Emmerson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an economic research institute in London, further consolidation would be needed to get borrowing back down to a sustainable level, Xinhua reported.
A property dealer on Saturday allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence in Shalimar Garden area in Ghaziabad, police said.
Rajeev Kataria, 33, took the extreme step early on Saturday morning when he was alone in his room, they said.
Police has recovered a suicide note in which Kataria has said that no one should be held responsible for his death.
Kataria has not written any reason in his suicide note, said Arvind Yadav, Circle Officer, Ghaziabad.
The director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal, Dr Sandeep Kumar, has resigned from his post citing ill-health among other reasons.
Dr Kumar took this decision after returning from a meeting in New Delhi called by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare few days back.
He also attended a high-level meeting of the finance committee after that.
Kumar who just completed more than two years in office said he has given my best services to the institution during this period.
Domestic help arrested for theft
(Siasat News): Abids police has arrested a domestic help working in the house of an NRI doctor and recovered the stolen goods worth Rs.9 lakh.
Assistant Commissioner police Abids division Mr.Jaipal said in a press conference that Dr.Afsha Mohammed w/o Mohammed who is a gynecologist in a Riyadh hospital, had reached Hyderabad on June 25 along with her domestic help Fatima Bi.
Mr. M Suryanarayana Raju, chairman, Nalanda Educational Institutions, VR Nagar Hyderabad in a press note stated that 3 students of his institution, Hajera Begum, P Navita and Y Srineja, got Pratibha award for their outstanding performance.
State government allotted 30 Pratibha awards to each district for students who excelled in SSC March 2013. Hyderabad District collector Mr. Murtaza Ali Razvi gave away the said 30 awards to the meritorious students on June 27, including the three students of Nalanda School.
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Telecommunication Company Blackberry has recently revealed its adjusted quarterly loss and disappointing profit margins which sent the company’s stock careening 25 percent in the red.
According to Fox News, Blackberry’s much anticipated Blackberry 10 launch has gone poorly and has impacted its ability to compete with market leaders Google and Apple.
England’s one-day coach Ashley Giles has said that star England batsman Kevin Pietersen seemed very upbeat and looked forward to the rest of the summer, adding that a happy Pietersen would be dangerous for the rival Australians during the Ashes.
According to The Sun, Pietersen’s first home match for England, a Twenty20 fixture against New Zealand at The Oval, since last summer’s bust-up over his texts to South African players, had to be abandoned after just two deliveries due to rain.
The Social Service branch of the Mumbai Police and members of Rescue Foundation raid ed a flat in central Mumbai city and rescued 15 women forced into the flesh trade. One person was arrested.
“We got the information that some girls were being forced into prostitution at Kamathipura. So to rescue them, we took the help of the S.S. branch and we have succeeded in freeing them. Some 15 girls have been rescued,” said Rescue Foundation investigation officer, Nitin Narayan Mangekur.
Social media giant Facebook has decided that it will review its advertising system in order to avoid placing adverts on pages having offensive content.
According to BBC, Facebook will now decide where adverts will appear on its site following instances of many companies withdrawing their advertising after complaints about the adverts being placed on pages having offensive content.
Marks and Spencer and BSkyB were among the companies who withdrew their adverts after an advert was placed on a Facebook page called ‘ cute and gay boys’ featuring photographs of teenage boys.
Launching a frontal attack on the Vijay Bahuguna Government in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh Minority Welfare Minister Azam Khan today said that all flood-affected areas in the hill state should have been handed over to the Indian Army.
“We had said it on the very first day that the affected areas should be handed over to the army,” he said.
Khan said that the Bahuguna Government should have called an emergency Cabinet meeting soon after they realised that the situation was out of their hands.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday took the Congress-led UPA Government to task over the latest petrol hike, claiming that the latter has lost its hold and control over the economy
“The government has completely lost its control over the economy, on economic policy. They come out with huge big announcements, but nothing happens on the ground, and, this is the reason there is complete chaos as far as the Indian economy today is concerned,” he told ANI TV here.
A team of experts from Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will visit the Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand to assess the quantum of damage caused by the flood fury and restoration required for the shrine.
A team of five experts from Dehradun and Delhi will be the part of the exercise for the revered temple which bore the brunt of floods and landslides triggered by the deluge in the hill state on June 16.
The state government had sought help from the ASI to assess the damage caused to the shrine.
Efforts are on to drop the team by air by tomorrow, sources said.
With almost ten days to go for Ramadan, preparations are still incomplete at Makkah Masjid. White washing, renovation and other works are still incomplete. During his recent visit Minority Welfare Minister Mohammed Ahmedulalh had assured that the work will be completed ahead of Ramadan but the present situation is quite contrary to his promise.
It is also said that the budget allotted by the government for the Makkah Masjid and Shahi Masjid, Public Garden has not been completely released. The budget allotted for the salaries of workers is also insufficient.
Mohammed Maqsood Ahmed on Friday took charge of his post as SETWIN chairman in a simple function held at SETWIN head office Azmath Jah Palace, Purani Haveli. Addressing a press conference after taking charge as Chairman, Mr., Maqsood Ahmed told that SETWIN has 22 centers in the twin cities while there are 52 centres in the entire state where training is being provided in 116 different courses. 5.15 lakh students got training from these centers so far out of whom 1.65 lakh students got employment.
Scientists have revealed that the shock wave from an asteroid that struck Russia in February was so powerful that it travelled twice around the globe.
They used a system of sensors set up to detect evidence of nuclear tests and said it was the most powerful event ever recorded by the network, the BBC reported.
More than 1,000 people were injured when a 17m, 10,000-tonne space rock burned up above Chelyabinsk.
The researchers studied data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) network operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO).
Security forces have killed eight Maoists during a prolonged shootout in the jungles near Kumandih in Jharkhand”s Latehar district. The district police disclosed this to the media at Latehar on Friday and mentioned that five rebels were killed when they opened fire on security personnel in the Kumandih region, while the other three died during their armed battle with the police in the forests sorrounding Kumandih village. “The operation is going on.
Before seeking cures for any disease, a Muslim should first believe that all diseases as well as their cures are in Allah’s hands and power. Allah alone decrees trials for His creation and He alone can decree their remedies. All means of getting sick and healed are, therefore, contingent upon Allah’s decree. As part of a Muslim’s belief, this principle is important because people sometimes fail to understand how afflictions come down upon a person and seek their cures without internalizing this reality.