Real estate consultant group BOP introduced the Indian players from its IBL Banga Beats team here Tuesday.
The team BOP Banga Beats consists of Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Parupalli Kashyap, Hu Yun, Tai Tze Ying, Carolina Marin, Carsten Morgensen, Arvind Bhat, Akshay Diwalkar, Aparna Balan, Aditya Prakash and J. Meghana.
Kashyap is the icon player for Banga Beats team which will represent Bangalore in the upcoming Indian Badminton League.
Medical students across the country Tuesday said they will launch a stir against the government’s decision to make one year rural posting for doctors mandatory.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), along with Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI) and representatives of medical students across the country, demanded that rural posting be made part of the internship and post graduate training.
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha Tuesday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is prime minister material and praised him like never before.
“Nitish Kumar is certainly PM material,” the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Lok Sabha member from Patna Saheb in Bihar told the media at Patna airport here.
Shatrughan Sinha said Nitish Kumar was a nice human being and a man of principles. “He is a mature politician and a good man.”
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday assured a delegation of party MPs opposed to creation of Telangana that their concerns would be taken care of when a decision on separate statehood is taken.
Gandhi’s assurance to the leaders came hours before crucial meetings of UPA and Congress Working Committee to take a final decision on the issue, as Union Ministers and MPs from Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh met her.
“She (Sonia) said that your issues are very much under consideration,” K Bapiraju, party MP from Seemandhra, said after the meeting.
Amid talks that a decision on separate Telangana is on the cards, demand for carving out Vidarbha state out of Maharashtra was made by senior Congress leader Vilas Muttemwar on Tuesday.
In a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi, Muttemwar, MP, said: “now when the Telangana state has been agreed to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, people of Vidarbha will have genuine resentment if their similar demand for creation of separate Vidarbha state is not (not) simultaneously agreed to.”
Terror infrastructure across the Line of Control (LoC) is “intact” and there are a number of terrorist camps there, but the force has an effective counter-infiltration grid to thwart any such attempts, a top Army commander in Kashmir Valley on Tuesday said.
“The terrorist infrastructure across the LoC, around the LoC and in the hinterland is intact, but we have a very effective intelligence network and counter-infiltration grid,” Lt Gen Gurmit Singh, General Officer Commanding of Srinagar based 15 Corps, told reporters here.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing on a petition filed by jailed former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma challenging his conviction and death sentence in the 1995 Naina Sahni murder case, which became famous as the ‘tandoor’ case.
The arguments began before a bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, five years after Sharma filed the appeal against the Delhi High Court judgement confirming the conviction and death penalty awarded to him for murdering his wife Naina on suspicion that she was having an extra-marital affair.
Describing terrorism as ultimately a war against India, he said the crimes committed by terrorists are extraordinary crimes.
The main Opposition demanded that Congress should apologise to the nation as its leaders had made comments about the encounter which were demoralising for the police.
“They had raised doubts about the martyrdom of M C Sharma. Digvijay Singh had visited the homes of the terror suspects. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid had even said that when he narrated the encounter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi she had cried,” Javadekar said.
Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden cannot expect to obtain Russian citizenship through a simplified procedure, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) said on Tuesday.
“I don’t see any legal norms which would give him such a possibility,” deputy head of the FMS Vladimir Burov told reporters.
Last week, FMS warned that the US asylum seeker, who has been in a Moscow Sheremetyevo airport’s transit zone for more than a month, could be stranded there for half a year.
Mitt Romney has said his infamous ’47 percent’ comments during his 2012 presidential campaign bid were taken completely out of context.
‘Actually, I didn’t say that,’ the former republican nominee said in a recent interview.
During the fundraiser in Florida, Romney had said that ’47 percent’ of Americans were dependent on government.
In an interview with the Washington Post, he acknowledged that the comment was very damaging to his campaign, but was not the attack on the poor that many perceived it to be.
The Army Chief of Staff has warned against the United States’ military involvement in Syria and Egypt before better understanding the crises in the Middle East nations.
General Raymond Odierno said at the American Enterprise Institute that the US is focused on making sure the country’s leaders understand the social, economic and other factors involved within the Middle East, because they’re complex and quite difficult to understand.
If Iran’s cyber capabilities launch attacks against the US they would do more damage to public perceptions than actual infrastructure, a new study has revealed.
The study, ‘Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States’, was published by the Atlantic Council, a pro-NATO think tank in Washington, stated.
According to the Washington Times, the study stated that previous cyber attacks on nation-states, like the Russian-backed one against Estonia in 2007, were not destructive and “’caused a political crisis, not a military one’.
The Indian footman at Buckingham Palace who helped announce the birth of new British heir – Prince George – is waiting to learn if his visa to continue to live and work in the UK will be renewed at the end of October.
Badar Azim, a 25-year-old hospitality management graduate who grew up in a Kolkata slum, was seen by millions posting the news of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby boy last week on the official easel at the palace forecourt.
However, according to media reports here, he may no longer have a job as Queen Elizabeth II’s footman once his visa expires in October.
Fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, his aide Chhota Shakeel and three Rajasthan Royal cricketers figured in the charge sheet filed by police Tuesday in a Delhi court over the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing case. Dawood was identified as the kingpin of the racket.
The formal set of charges, running into 6,000 pages, were filed before Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna. The charge sheet named cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan among the 39 accused in the scandal related to IPL-6 earlier this year.
Britain’s plan to introduce a controversial scheme of demanding a whopping 3,000 pounds visa bond from visitors from certain countries, including India, has divided the country’s coalition government, with a senior minister terming the move as “very disappointing”.
Business Secretary Vince Cable, a member of coalition partner Liberal Democrats, admitted the proposed scheme which has already triggered worldwide outrage would send out the “wrong message”.
Chinese police have arrested a wheelchair-bound man, who set off a home made explosive at the Beijing International Airport on July 20 to highlight the brutal beating by security officials that paralysed him.
33-year-old Ji Zhongxing, who was suspected of setting off the explosive at the Beijing airport has been arrested, official media here reported.
The Chaoyang district procuratorate approved Ji’s arrest yesterday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
British police said on Tuesday they were investigating violent and sexually explicit Twitter postings directed at a lawmaker in a growing row over threats to women on the social network.
Stella Creasy, an MP with the opposition Labour party, faced a stream of abuse after supporting a feminist activist who was targeted for campaigning for an image of novelist Jane Austen to appear on banknotes.
Another lawmaker said she too was receiving a barrage of offensive messages, while a man has been arrested and bailed over rape threats to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
Free medicines donated by the UN health programme have been sold to hospitals in Pakistan’s northern province of Gilgit-Baltistan and Rs.29 million embezelled by a private firm.
Officials from the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) told Dawn that Germany-based non-governmental organisation KFW had granted Rs.29 million to the Pakistan government for the purchase of life-saving drugs.
The contract for the supply of drugs was awarded to a private firm by the name of Qazi Enterprises Gilgit, the daily said.
The US Army has refused to bar 43 individuals or companies from getting US contracts in Afghanistan despite information that they support the Taliban or other enemies of US forces, a government watchdog said on Tuesday.
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said he was concerned by the Army’s refusal to follow his office’s recommendations to prevent alleged supporters of the Taliban, the Haqqani network and al Qaeda from getting or keeping US government contracts.
India-born Mamnoon Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawqaz Sharif, was on Tuesday elected as the 12th President of Pakistan and will replace the incumbent Asif Ali Zardari in September.
Hussain emerged as a clear winner in the one-sided contest with ex-judge Wajihuddin Ahmad of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party, state media reported.
Pakistan People’s Party withdrew its candidate Raza Rabbani and boycotted the election held today in protest to the date of polls being changed.
The polling started at 10.00 AM amidst tight security arrangements.
Former Pakistan president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf will be indicted on August 6 in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi made the announcement after Musharraf was produced during hearing of the case headed by ATC judge Habibur Rahman.
According to Dawn News, the ATC ordered the authorities to produce Mushararf at the next hearing of the case, adding that he would be indicted on August 6.
Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 while Musharraf was president.
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Bhutan faces many challenges, including rupee shortage and national loans, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has said as he asked the new government to address the key issues while strengthening democracy.
“I hope that you will serve the people with sincerity and humility in the next five years,” the King said while felicitating Bhutan’s new Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, his Cabinet and parliamentarians.
Two teenage sisters were gang-raped allegedly by seven armed men, including the driver and conductor of a public transport vehicle, in Sialkot.
According to an FIR lodged, the incident took place on July 20 when the two sisters, aged 16 and 18, boarded a Wazirabad-bound van from Sambrial city.
As the other passengers disembarked on different stops, the driver parked the van at a deserted place near Farid Town and tied the girls in the van. Later, five of his accomplices joined the driver and conductor and gang-raped the girls at gun-point, police said.
After meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, business leaders of the country said that their discussions were productive as both sides gave an insight into plans to combat the falling rupee, restraining gold imports and enhancing foreign investment in the country.
India will announce measures to help narrow the current account deficit in the next few weeks, including looking at ways of bringing in foreign investments, Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Rajan said at a news briefing on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the RBI left interest rates unchanged as it supports a battered rupee but said it will roll back recent liquidity tightening measures when stability returns to the currency market.