As per the report of Mohammed Abdul Qadeer secretary, a lecture will be conducted on Sunday, June 1, from 11 am to 1 pm, by Rahbar-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat monthly at office of the Rahbar-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat monthly, opposite Hindi Milap, old Kattal Mandi, Moazzam Jahi Market.
A documentary film on well-known and historical Khudabaksh Library, Patna prepared by Instructional Media Centre, Maulana Azad National Urdu University will be telecast on June 2, 2013, 8 am and 5:30 pm on Doordarshan Urdu Channel.
The Khudabaksh Library located at the foot of River Ganges in Patna has a rich collection of 21000 eastern manuscripts and 2.5 lakh printed books. The library now is completely working under Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
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The cooking gas (LPG) consumers in 18 districts will get Rs. 435 in their bank accounts when they book an LPG cylinder from today onwards, as the government rolls out its ambitious Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme to cut its fuel subsidy.
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dr. M. Veerappa Moily will launch the scheme in Tumkur in Karnataka, while Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Lakshmi Panabaka will start the scheme in Hyderabad.
Amid indications that more senior functionaries would resign to mount pressure on BCCI President N. Srinivasan to step down in the wake of IPL spot-fixing scandal, Indian cricket board’s vice-president Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that there will be some significant developments today.
“Wait for a day and you will hear something significant today,” he told mediapersons outside his residence here.
Two top BCCI officials BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale and Treasurer Ajay Shirke have tendered their resignations in the wake of spot-fixing scandal.
A Bihar official used to cook his food in a silver pressure cooker, leaving a Bihar Police raiding team bewildered.
The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) team of the Bihar Police was flummoxed when it recovered during raids on the government engineer a silver pressure cooker. The vessel was later produced in court, an official said here Saturday.
“It surprised us all that a silver pressure cooker was recovered. It was brought to the court as evidence,” a team official told IANS.
US President Barack Obama said Friday that NATO leaders will meet again next year to discuss troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
The Afghan war dominated Obama’s meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House, Xinhua reported.
Obama said they discussed the steps to be taken after 2014 to enhance the ability of the Afghan security forces to “control their own borders” and secure Afghanistan from being used “as a base for terrorism in the future”.
In a major top management re-shuffle, Infosys today said it has re-appointed N R Narayana Murthy as Executive Chairman and Additional Director with immediate effect.
The decision was taken at a board meeting held earlier in the day, Infosys said in a statement, adding the appointment will be with effect from June 1, 2013. Veteran banker K V Kamath would step down from his position as Chairman of the Board and take up the role of Lead Independent Director, it added.
Pushed into a corner, the embattled N Srinivasan’s days as BCCI President appear to be numbered as more Board officials have threatened to quit following the resignations of two senior functionaries in the wake of the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
According to top BCCI sources, a message has been conveyed to Srinivasan that he should step down on his own failing which more Board officials will put in their papers to bring about a constitutional crisis in the body.
The skeleton of a man who went missing last year has been found in a nala near Rajendra Nagar. It must be recalled that Mohammed Abdur Raheem alias Iqbal (52), resident of Sadat Nagar (Shaheen Nagar) was missing since august 31, 2012. His family members claimed that financers had kidnapped him. His wife Mrs. Raheemunnisa, two sons Abdul Ghafoor, Abdul Qader and two daughters Meherunnisa and Kausar Jahan had a hope that Iqbal will return home safely but they were shocked to receive his skeleton.
A teenage girl attempted suicide in Thane after being allegedly harassed by four youths, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place on Friday evening at Salvad locality in Boisar when the 17-year-old poured kerosene and set herself afire, they said.
The girl suffered 70 per cent burns and was rushed to the Rural Hospital initially and later shifted to Masina hospital in Palghar where she is battling for her life, police added.
The U.S. city hit by a deadly tornado less than two weeks ago was slammed again, and the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office said five people were killed. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a mother and baby were among the dead, and emergency officials said reports of injuries were “widespread.”
Tornadoes hit Oklahoma City on Friday evening, smashing vehicles along a major highway during rush hour. Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said troopers found woman and baby near a vehicle along Interstate 40 west of the city.
Islam has all the virtues concealed in it; the only thing is we need to discover that. Yoga is also a form of exercise but Namaz contains all the principles of health. As a student works hard to attain success so one should prepare a time table for being healthy and one should adopt time management. Namaz has been made compulsory for Muslims 5 times daily which is also a form of exercise and has health benefits. These views were expressed by Mr.
The UPA government is planning to take a major step before the 2014 General Elections. According to a leading daily, the government has a plan to set up five universities with as much as 50 percent reservation for the minorities.
The daily has quoted Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan as saying that socio-economic backwardness would be the key determinant for the reservation. He further clarified that the minorities would not comprise just religious minorities, but also those mentioned in Article 15 and 16 of the Constitution.
Heavy rains accompanied by gusty winds and lightening lashed this tech hub late Friday, crippling normal life, inundating low-laying areas and throwing vehicular traffic out of gear across the city.
“The city and surrounding areas received about 80-90 mm rain in about three hours from 7 pm due to low pressure and surface winds across the region,” a senior meteorological official told a news agency.
The British military Camp Bastion in Afghanistan is being dubbed as the UK’s Guantanamo Bay. That is because the camp has been detaining up to 90 Afghan prisoners without charge or legal help for over a year. Political experts believe that this act breaches international law.
Ministry of Defense has been trying hard to act innocent, with the Defense Secretary announcing that he didn’t transfer the prisoners because he was concerned about the Afghan prison system. Lawyers and activists believe this is just a propaganda cover up to deny responsibility for an illegal crime.
Direct transfer scheme for LPG cylinder subsidy has come into force from June 1. Under the scheme, the government will transfer Rs 435 directly in the bank accounts of LPG consumers in 18 districts of the country.
Consumers will get the money each time they book for an LPG refill. These consumers then will have to buy cooking gas at market price. The government hopes to save Rs 8,000-10,000 crore annually after the scheme is rolled out all over the country.
Eight tunnels are being constructed in Makkah to help ease congestion in the city, according to Arab News.
The projects include two tunnels for pedestrians, three emergency tunnels for rapid evacuation purposes, two tunnels for sewage and electricity, and one for services.
“The tunnels are constructed as part of King Abdullah Project for Expansion of Makkah and holy sites,” one source said, adding that they would be ready for use shortly.
Actress Isla Fisher admits she received “no helping hand” when she was trying to carve a niche as an actress in Hollywood.
The “Confessions of a Shopaholic” actress admits she struggled to gain recognition when she first moved to Hollywood, and that she was even turned down by her husband Sacha Baron Cohen’s agent, reports contactmusic.com.
“I really have had no help. In fact, the one time I did ask for help was after my agent in LA fired me. I was auditioning for all sorts of things but kept getting told ‘no’, so she just fired me,” she told Britain’s Cosmopolitan magazine.
It still baffles the mind and senses when I try to put my head around the barbaric attack on British solider Lee Rigby by two British men claiming to be “avenging Muslims.” Apart from this their pathetic argument, it was not long before people tried to link the murder to all Muslims. In fact, both here and in Britain, Muslims were attacked in revenge of Rigby’s murder.
Then comes Russell Brand, comedian and ex-husband of Katy Perry, to defend the Muslim community from collective blame:
“Islam, when practised by normal people, is not an advocacy for violence.
A prominent Shia educationist and his driver on Friday were shot and killed by unknown attackers in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, police said.
Syed Azfar Rizvi was in his car with the driver when unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at them. Both Rizvi and his driver succumbed to their injuries on their way to hospital. Their bodies have been shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities, police said.
Rizvi was head of the Dhaka Group of Educational Institutions and served as an honorary secretary of Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan.
Samajwadi Party on Friday announced its candidate for the Saharanpur Lok Sabha seat and changed its nominees at four places. “SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has announced Firoz Aftab as the party candidate for Saharanpur Lok Sabha constituency,” SP national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said in a statement issued here.
NATO defence chiefs will meet in Brussels next week to review measures for protecting member countries from cyber attacks, a diplomatic source said Friday.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will be among the ministers meeting Tuesday and Wednesday.
NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in March the alliance planned to “strengthen cyber-security” in response to “regular” computer attacks.
Nawaz Sharif, who is set to become prime minister of Pakistan, Friday expressed strong reservations over US drone attacks inside Pakistani territory.
The drone strikes were not only violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty but also against international laws and UN charter, reported Xinhua citing Sharif, the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), in a statement.
The concern was conveyed to the US Charge d’affaires in Islamabad, said a spokesperson for Sharif.
Actress Kylie Jenner shares a special friendship with actor Will Smith’s 14-year-old son Jaden Smith. She says he is very supportive.
“He comes and supports me with everything that I do. It’s refreshing. Some people don’t understand and some people do,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Jenner as saying.
“It’s just great to have someone grow up in the same position as you and you can relate in that kind of way, so it’s fun,” she added.
The 15-year-old actress also revealed that her elder half-sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have taught her how to deal with negative attention.
Syria wants to revive a contract to purchase MiG-29M/M2 fighter jets from Russia in the wake of upcoming expiration of an EU embargo on arms sales to Syria, the representatives of aircraft maker MiG said Friday.
“A Syrian delegation is currently in Moscow. We’re discussing details and timeframe of a possible contract,” MiG head Sergei Korotkov told journalists without elaborating.