Crossing the railway track with earphones plugged in, a 21-year-old B.Tech student died when he was hit by a train near Avadhpuri crossing in Kalyanpur locality, police said on Saturday.
Abhay died while crossing the railway tracks last evening. He was run over by the Kasjang- Farrukhabad passenger train, a police spokesman said.
Abhay could not hear the sound of the approaching train as he had mobile headphones plugged in his ear, locals said.
Russia has planned to sign a new agreement to ship at least 10 MiG-29 M/M2 fighter jets to Syria. MiG”s Director General, Sergei Korotkov, said that Russia is providing weapons to Bashar al-Assad”s government intended to protect Syria from foreign invasion, reported News 24. The MiG-29 M/M2 fighters is an advanced version of the MiG 29 twin-engine fighter jet and has been a mainstay of Soviet and Russian Air Force since mid-1980s, the report added.
Akshay Kumar recently unveiled the promo of his upcoming crime-drama flick ‘ Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai Again’ in Mumbai.
The film sheds light on the underbelly of crime in the entertainment capital.
The 45-year-old actor will be playing a role of a villain for the very first time in his acting career, and he seemed very happy to break out of his hero image.
The movie, which will hit the theatres on 8th August 2013, is a sequel of 2010 hit ‘ Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai ‘. (ANI)
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 2012 fiscal year grew less than 5 percent, the lowest in a decade, according to data published by the government of India.
According to the data, GDP in the last three months of the year that ended in March 2013, was only 4.8 percent. The manufacturing sector grew 2.6 percent while the agricultural export grew 1.4 percent.
The increase in prices of petrol and diesel was to respond to the rupee depreciation, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily said today defending the hike effected after the rupee hit a 11-month low making oil imports costlier.
“Petrol price you should know that (for) every one rupee depreciation it will cost Rs 9,000 crore. Where do you find that Rs 9,000 crore. We cannot manufacture money. It has to be collected from some resources. Therefore we collect that much, not more than that,” he said.
Stating there was need to improve the quality of higher education in India, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed concern over Indian universities not figuring among the top institutions across the world.
“Today there in no Indian university amongst the top 200 universities in the world. This situation must be improved,” Mukherjee said the valedictory function of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Dayanand Education Society here.
Akshay Kumar recently unveiled the promo of his upcoming crime-drama flick ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai Again’ in Mumbai.
The film sheds light on the underbelly of crime in the entertainment capital.
The 45-year-old actor will be playing a role of a villain for the very first time in his acting career, and he seemed very happy to break out of his hero image.
The movie, which will hit the theatres on 8th August 2013, is a sequel of 2010 hit ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai’. (ANI)
Indian IT bellwether Infosys Ltd. Saturday appointed its co-founder and chairman emeritus N.R. Narayana Murthy as the executive chairman and additional director on its board.
In a regulatory filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the global software major said incumbent K.V. Kamath would step down as chairman of the board from Saturday and be an independent director.
“Murthy’s election as a director will be placed for the consideration of the shareholders in the annual general meeting (AGM) on June 15,” the company said in the filing.
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At least 23 militants were killed in an overnight operation launched by Pakistan Army in the country’s northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency, a media report said Saturday.
The clashes between militants and security forces also killed two soldiers and wounded five, reported Xinhua citing a media report.
The operation started last night in the Para Chamkani area of Kurram Agency, a restive tribal region which borders east Afghanistan.
During the operation, security forces also reportedly destroyed four militant hideouts.
—IANS
The first session of Pakistan’s newly-elected National Assembly started Saturday with the oath-taking of its members here.
Speaker of the outgoing National Assembly Fehmida Mirza administered the oath to the new members. Mirza, who is also an elected member of the National Assembly, congratulated the new members in her brief remarks, reported Xinhua.
State and private TV channels aired live the oath-taking ceremony.
Congress leader V.C. Shukla, injured in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, has shown signs of improvement but remains critical, doctors said Saturday.
“He has shown marginal improvement but is not out of danger and remains critical,” A.K. Dubey, medical superintendent of the Medanta Hospital here, told IANS.
Doctors performed exploratory laparotomy surgery (a diagnostic tool that allows physicians to examine the abdominal area) last week when he was admitted to the hospital.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has called an emergency working committee meeting in Chennai Sunday amid the ongoing crisis in the Indian cricket following the IPL spot fixing scandal, an official said.
BCCI joint secretary Anurag Thakur Saturday confirmed that the meeting will be held at 2.30 p.m.
“All the issues will be discussed during this meeting and I believe (it will be) by tomorrow 2.30 p.m., when the meeting starts. We have enough issues to be discussed,” said Thakur.
The government of Nepal has decided to observe May 28 of each year as the National Day, ending years of confusion over the issue since the country turned into a republic in 2008.
On May 28, 2008, the first meeting of Constituent Assembly declared Nepal as a federal republic, bringing to an end the 240-year-old monarchy.
After the establishment of republic, there has been confusion about the National Day, and the country has not formally celebrated the National Day over the last seven years. Before that, Nepal used to mark the king’s birthday as a National Day, reported Xinhua.
Mr. Ali bin Ibrahim Masqati, vice president, Telugu Desam party Greater Hyderabad and in charge Charminar will distribute free spectacles among the selected patients of the camp held at SDM High School, located at Komatwadi, Noor Khan Bazar at Charminar Municipal division.
He will distribute spectacles on June 1, 4 pm, at old city TDP office, Kotla Alijah. For details contact on 9703872977.
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Mr. Mohammed Siddique son of late Mohammed Ismail left office as Assistant Sub inspector of Police, on May 31. He served in Law and Order, Traffic and Special branch during his service and achieved more than 100 awards.
He was initially appointed as a constable in police department, later he was promoted as head constable and reached the post of ASI before retirement.
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Mr. Maulana Fazalur Rahman from Malerkotla Punjab arrived at Hyderabad along with Maulana Abdul Sattar Salam and Qari Mohammed Ali. Speaking to Siasat he informed that he is serving at Madrasa Tajweed ul Quran for 24 years. He revealed that partition of India landed Muslims of India into emotional social disorder. Punjab and Haryana were the worst hit states. Even today many Muslim women are living with non Muslims. Muslims performed religious obligations in secret. Several Muslims became apostates.
Congress MLA Dr. Shankar Rao said ‘It’s time for Kiran Kumar Reddy to go home; if he is allowed to remain on CM’s post it will harm Congress. Speaking to media at assembly premises he said chief minister, by adopting ‘divide and rule policy’ is harming Congress. No section is happy with the performance of chief minister. By adopting anti-Dalit policy he is keeping the vote-bank at bay. Even the Congress high command is not happy with the performance of chief minister. Dr.
The deadline – of July 3 – for Indians and other expatriates to either meet legal requirements to continue staying in the oil rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or exiting is fast approaching. There are no indications about an extension.
Cyber security threats are a threat to not only the United States, but also other countries including China, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday.
“They are threats to China. They are threats to every country. We share those common interests,” the Pentagon chief told an audience that included the defense ministers and military commanders from countries in the Asia Pacific and beyond.
An emergency meeting of the BCCI will be held in Chennai tomorrow in which beleaguered President Srinivasan may announce his resignation from the post after he has been virtually isolated by his team in the Board.
As pressure mounted on him to quit in the wake of the IPL spot-fixing scandal and the arrest of his son-in-law on betting charges, the BCCI has advanced the Working Committee meeting which Srinivasan had planned to convene next Saturday.
Hadith: Abu Hurairah (RadiyAllahu Anhu) reported: The Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) said:
“Were people to know the blessing of pronouncing Adhan and the standing in the first row, they would even draw lots to secure these privileges. And were they to realize the reward of performing Salat early, they would race for it; and were they to know the merits of Salat after nightfall (‘Isha’) and the dawn (Fajr) Salat, they would come to them even if they had to crawl.”
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
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The remains of dozens of Palestinians killed by Israelis in fighting following the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state have been found in a mass grave in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa district.
An official at the Muslim cemetery there told AFP that the grisly find occurred on Wednesday when ground subsided as workers carried out renovations, revealing six chambers full of skeletons.
Kristen Stewart’s role in the ‘Twilight’ movie franchise nearly went to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter.
Frances Bean Cobain, 20, was offered the role of Bella Swan in the films, but snubbed the opportunity because she
objected to the vampire storylines, reported Contactmusic.
“When she was 13 she was offered ‘Twilight’, she was offered (the part of) Bella in Twilight. Someone just saw a
picture of her in a magazine and sent me the script for Twilight. She was like, ‘That’s a sexist Mormon’. She was 13.
It would have destroyed her life,” Love said.
A British telecom company has ditched the third-largest email provider, Yahoo Mail, as its default email service, keeping in view the service’s vulnerability to getting hacked.
Online director for British Telecom’s consumer division, Nick Wong, said the company would be switching the email of its six million customers over to its own BT Mail, which will incorporate all the features and functions of a modern email service, reports Huffington Post.
Bridegroom went missing on marriage day
(Siasat News): In a bizarre incident, a bridegroom mysteriously went missing on the day of his marriage.
Inspector Santosh Nagar Mr. K V Prasad said that Mohd Toufique, 25, resident of Moin Baug, scheduled to get married today but he went missing two days before his marriage.
The relatives of Toufique lodged a complaint in Santosh Nagar police station in which they claimed that Toufique himself had taken keen interest in different arrangements of his marriage.