Washington, June 4 (ANI): Former US President Bill Clinton has been paid 500,000 dollars for a 45-minute speech in Israel honoring Israeli President Shimon Peres’ 90th birthday.
The Times of Israel reported the non-profit Jewish National Fund gave the amount to Clinton for the speech, which he will be giving at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot on June 17.
Washington, June 4 (ANI): NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and February 2016 when
Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our sun, passes in front of two other stars.
Astronomers plotted Proxima Centauri’s precise path and predicted the two close encounters using data from Hubble.
“Proxima Centauri’s trajectory offers a most interesting opportunity
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday accepted the Nimesh Commission report which probed the arrest of two Muslim youths in 2007 on terror charges.
The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav here today.
“The report was accepted by the Cabinet meeting today,” Yadav told media after the meeting here.
“The government will present the report in the coming UP legislative session along with the action taken report, he added.
New York, June 4 (ANI): EBay’s auction for lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet has reached upto 160,000 dollars and counting.
The annual charity auction on EBay will end on June 7, the New York Daily News reports.
According to the report, the auction had profited nearly 3.5 million dollars from an anonymous winner last year.
The report said that the winner along with his seven friends will get the opportunity to engage Buffet in a powerful conversation during lunch at the Manhattan steakhouse Smith & Wollensky.
With Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed warning the political leadership of Islamabad not to renew friendly ties with New Delhi, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said India would like to engage with elected governments in Pakistan rather than respond to statements made by non-state actors.
“He has made a statement of that nature, I”m not sure he has won any elections. Pakistan has just had a democratic election and they have elected Nawaz Sharif”s party and I believe he will soon be elected as Prime Minister,” said Khurshid.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has ruled out the role of the party in peace talks with the Taliban, stating withdrawal of the talks offer, and disinterest of military establishment in talks as the reason. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Rahman said neither has there been any contacts, nor has the government approached the JUI-F regarding the talks, reports The Nation.
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will inaugurate the conference of Chief Ministers on ”internal security” here on Wednesday.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will deliver the opening address on the occasion.
The participants will review internal security situation in the country during the daylong conference. Police Reforms, capacity building, strengthening of counter terrorism capabilities and intelligence apparatus, National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and focus on ongoing and new initiatives will be on the agenda.
Former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a witness on Tuesday in connection with the recent railway bribery case.
Bansal is under the scanner for his role in the appointment of suspended railway board member (Staff) Mahesh Kumar for which his nephew Vijay Singla was caught allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 90 lakh.
Bansal had to resign from the Union Cabinet in the aftermath of the case involving his nephew, who is alleged to have been operating from his official residence.
New Delhi, June 4 (ANI): Delhi”s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of former Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and 22 others till June 18 in connection with their respective roles in the T20 spot-fixing case.
The extension of judicial custody was effected after Delhi Police informed Kumar that it has invoked provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against all of them, as they were allegedly facilitating the illegal acts of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel.
Congress Party on Tuesday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for delaying the passage of the Food Security Bill in Parliament and politicising the matter.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath took potshots at the BJP for disrupting the parliamentary proceedings in the last session when the bill was being discussed.
Dhaka, June 4 (ANI): Former cricket skipper Mohammad Ashraful, who has been suspended from all forms of the game on the suspicion of fixing matches during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), clarifying his stand on the issue today said that he has revealed all details to the International Cricket Council (ICC). “This is the first time in my 12 years old career that I am speaking something like this. I have played over 250 matches in my career and have tried to give my best in all of them.
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday condemned West Bengal Advocate-General Bimal Chatterjee”s ”insulting” remarks in the Calcutta High Court that the State Election Commission”s demands were like those of a beautiful lady for, and demanded a public apology from him.
Boxing champ Amir Khan got publicly married at the Waldorf-Astoria on Friday, but he secretly exchanged vows with his fiancée Faryal Makhdoom the day before in a private ceremony at the Staten Island Excelsior Grand, it has been revealed.
The Thursday celebration involved an dance-off between the bride and the groom, the New York Post reported.
After the ceremony, Khan and his groomsmen performed an elaborate Bollywood-style dance routine for Faryal and select guests.
Washington D.C. based International Centre for Journalists has announced two journalism scholarships for students to pursue the P G Diploma in Applied Journalism and Media Communication at 9.9 School of Communication (9.9 SoC).
The 11-month Applied Journalism programme at 9.9 SoC teaches students the ins and outs of writing
news stories, how to shoot and edit video using high-end cameras and final cut pro editing software,
and the details of producing professional-quality online news.
London, June 4 (ANI): Students of Cambridge University were shocked after a question about an initiation ceremony involving a drunken orgy of oral sex, male rape and naked torture turned up in an exam paper.
The antics of a college drinking society – that even led to one humiliated new member’s death – were described in the first-year law test.
Law students from the famed university’s 23 colleges sat down in a lecture theatre at the Faculty of Law on Saturday morning to take the three-hour written exam.
London, June 4 (ANI): David Beckham, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie are today’s superstars, but as it turns out, they had other plans in store career wise.
Jolie wanted to pursue a career of a funeral director after she became upset at the way her grandfather’s funeral was conducted, the Daily Star reported.
Beckham has said that he wanted to become a soldier and used to march around his house and roll around in mud.
He even built a den in his bedroom with the help of his pals.
Cruise had looked at priesthood as a career, as he was interested in spirituality. (ANI)
From poking holes in condoms to stealing birth control pills, some men are doing it all to get their partners pregnant.
The sex trend is being called “reproductive coercion” by the doctors and new research suggests that it is not just young women involved in abusive relationships who are at risk as previously believed.
In another incident of a racist bus rant, a young school-going boy of Asian descent was targeted by a reportedly drunk 50-year-old woman on a Sydney bus.
The woman hurled verbal abuse at the young male, who along with his friend, stood in the aisle of the bus for protecting ‘fragile equipment’ on the bus seats, when the agitated woman started claiming that the pair are blocking her view, News.com.au reports.
Only 6 percent of US citizens would like former Presidents George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush to become the face of a new bill.
According to the new poll published by Vanity Fair, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan emerged as more popular choices, the Huffington Post reported.
Reagan took the top spot by scoring a whopping 38 percent of the vote.
1,072 adults were interviewed for the poll between April 18 and 21. (ANI)
A study by a sex search engine has claimed that when it comes to internet pornography, Malaysians prefer to watch local material.
According to the info collected by website PornMD.com, Malaysians top 3 searches, over a six-month period, from August 2012 to January 2013 were malay, malaysia and Japanese, the Star Online reported.
According to PornMD chief information officer George Robinson, these searches were part of the 4.04 million internet searches by Malaysians on the website.
Serena Williams has graced the cover of the Essence magazine’s July 2013 ‘Body Issue’ in a blue ombre swimsuit by Carmen Marc Valvo.
In the new issue, the 31-year-old tennis star has talked about issues ranging from self-esteem and aging to maintaining her health and embracing her famous curves, the Huffington Post reported. (ANI)
Night Shift workers, who work at night are at an increased risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, a new study has suggested.
The results showed that peak glucose levels were 16 percent higher during one night of simulated shift work, compared with one day of a simulated daytime work schedule.
Compared with the daytime protocol, insulin levels during the night shift protocol were 40 to 50 percent higher at 80 minutes and 90 minutes after a meal.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) suspended ex-cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful after he confessed to fixing matches in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Ashraful confessed before the International Cricket Council”s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).
Ashraful”s suspension comes days after the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it is probing allegations of match-fixing in Bangladeshi cricket, and even went so far as to name Ashraful as among those cricketers being questioned.
A 13-year-old Indian girl living in UK has scored a mindboggling 162 on a Mensa IQ test, which is the highest score possible for someone who is under 18 years of age.
According to British Mensa, the incredible score has put Neha Ramu in the top 1 per cent of brightest people in the country, the Gulf News reported.
Experts believe that the achievement means that Neha has intelligence higher than scientist Albert Einstein and physicist Stephen Hawking.
The high score has also made her a part of the Mensa society – an elite club for people having high IQs.
High heels may increase the risk of a woman suffering from serious medical conditions, which includes arthritis, muscle damage and trapped nerves, a study has suggested.
According to a study conducted by The College of Podiatry, women start feeling the pain after wearing the heels for just one hour and six minutes, on an average and a fifth of them feel the burn after walking for just 10 minutes.
The study also found that almost 50 percent of women have suffered from foot problems and a third have worn heels they knew did not fit simply because they looked good.