Samsung Electronics has forecast weaker-than-expected profits for the April to June quarter. The world’s biggest mobile phone and TV maker has estimated an operating profit of 9.5 trillion won, 8.3 billion dollars, for the quarter.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Manish Tiwari said here today that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is raking up controversial issues like the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya prior to elections. He stated the BJP is making false promises in its endeavour to gain popular support Earlier, a leader of the BJP, Amit Shah raked up the controversial Hindu temple issue during his visit to Ayodhya last week.
Pakistan cricket icon and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Director General Javed Miandad has said that there was a dire need of improvement in the cricket structure of the country instead of having a batting coach. According to The Nation, Miandad believes that Pakistan sorely needs improvement in their domestic cricket structure to have a strong back up for producing quality and world-class players.
The newly elected Nawaz Sharif government’s yet to be unveiled counter-terrorism policy will renew commitment to fight terror. The policy, however, contains no radical shift in the strategy for dealing with the problem, but just acknowledges that ‘enabling environment’ existed in the country for growth of extremism and terrorism. The draft policy titled National Counter-Terrorism and Extremism Policy would have five elements, dismantle, contain, prevent, educate and reintegrate, for curbing terrorism.
The brother of jailed Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden, cannot meet him in prison, authorities at the Peshawar Central Prison said. The authorities said only wife and children of Afridi were entitled to meet him in Khyber tribal district.
Workplace romance can always be risky, especially if you’re having an affair with the boss.
A Brisbane manager, who was fired for having sex with one of his staff members while at work, this week, had his application for unfair dismissal rejected by the Fair Work Commission, News.com.au reported.
This comes as workplace experts warn bosses who have consensual relationships with their staff members are more liable for inappropriate conduct than their partners.
India’s challenge in the Asian Table Tennis Championships ended today after four male paddlers, including Achanta Sharath Kamal, failed to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the men’s singles competition, here today.
Sharath Kamal (68) was comprehensively beaten by 44th ranked Chinese Zhou Yu in four games at Sajik Gymnasium here.
Except for the first game, in which the highest-ranked Indian tried to match the Chinese, Sharath Kamal surrendered meekly in the subsequent games and bowed out of the competition. He lost the match 10-12 3-11 4-11 4-11.
In a relief to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, a court here today discharged him in the 2008 national anthem case.
Allowing his discharge petition, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate M Manoj held that no case has been made out against Tharoor, which if rebutted, would warrant his conviction. The court also observed that Tharoor had ‘not intentionally’ prevented singing of the national anthem.
The recent alliance between the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Congress has been described as ”opportunistic” by Rajiv Pratap Rudy, General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking here today, Rudy said that there will not be any permanency in Jharkhand. “JMM allying with the ruling Congress is against the norms and also opportunistic and for sure there won”t be any permanency in the Jharkhand government. In the last 12 years Jharkhand has seen nine governments.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Saturday said that his party would not oppose the the National Food Security Bill in parliament but would seek amendments to it.
Speaking to media persons after meeting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Mohan Bhagwat at the RSS headquarters here, he termed the ordinance promulgated by the government as “a cruel joke”.
“What was the need to hurry with an ordinance when the parliament’s monsoon session is due soon? Taking the ordinance route is nothing but a cruel joke on democracy,” he said.
: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has claimed that it had lost approximately 80 million dollars in its broadcasting deal with the Dubai-based Ten Sports that ended last month, due to a lack of bilateral series with India. According to the Daily Times, Pakistan toured India in December 2012 for a short one-day series, the first bilateral series between the two countries since 2007, although India has refused to play Pakistan or even in Pakistan since 2008 and also cancelled a full tour in early 2009.
Two B. Tech degree holders were duped of around Rs.15 lakh by a man who promised to get them jobs in a steel firm in Andhra Pradesh, said a Delhi Police official Saturday. The accused was arrested from a city hotel.
P. Bangaru Raju, 47, resident of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, was arrested from a Delhi hotel Friday on the basis of information provided by police in Visakhapatnam.
Gondsei Sri Nagar Reddy and his brother G. Srikanth Reddy, both B. Tech degree holders, were in search of a job when they came in contact with Raju in December 2010.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu Saturday contended that the Congress was playing with fire by trying to implicate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Ishrat Jahan case.
He said it was shocking that after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the charge-sheet the case, the Congress was trying to politicize the issue and gain mileage. He alleged that the Congress was even ready to compromise on the nation’s security.
A special CBI court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case today trashed the petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking to defer the proceedings of the case till July 20.
The Talwar couple had yesterday moved a fresh petition seeking to defer the ongoing case proceedings till July 20.
The couple had sought time till July 20 saying that the Allahabad High Court has reserved its verdict for July 16 on their plea, seeking reports of brain mapping, sound simulation test, narco-analysis and lie detector test be put on court record.
The US economy added 195,000 new jobs in June, which was well above economists’ expectations of 165,000. The data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the jobless rate remained steady at 7.6 percent of the workforce. According to the BBC, leisure and hospitality industry saw the maximum number of jobs in June, as employers hired workers for the summer season. If the US economy continues to add jobs at this pace, the unemployment rate should fall from its current 7.6 percent to 6.5 percent by the end of 2014, the report said.
Nearly 26 have died and 850 injured after fighting erupted across Egypt between supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and their opponents. The violence took place as Morsi’s supporters held massive protests across the country, calling for his reinstatement. According to CNN, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, said that among those killed were five Morsi supporters who were shot by the army in front of the headquarters of the Republican Guard headquarters, where Morsi was said to be detained.
Gunmen believed to be Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgent group killed 42 people, mostly students, in an overnight attack on a secondary school in restive Yobe state, a medical worker and residents said today.
We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School (in) Mamudo last night. Some of them had gunshot wounds while many of them had burns and ruptured tissues,” Haliru Aliyu of the Potiskum General Hospital told AFP.
A local resident confirmed the death toll in the attack, the latest blamed on Boko Haram in Nigeria’s volatile
Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated their countries could offer political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said it would give asylum to Snowden, who is believed to be holed up in a transit area of Moscow airport. Maduro made his announcement in a speech on Venezuela’s Independence Day. He said that as being the head of state and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela he has decided to offer humanitarian asylum to Snowden so he can come and live in the country and live away from the imperial North American persecution.
Launching a frontal attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is attempting to communalise the society by bringing forward its Hindutva agenda and claims of building a grand temple of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. Raja said it is now well-known to the nation and the various political outfits that the BJP is reviving its Hindutva ideology. “It is open now how the RSS is dictating the policies to BJP.
A big-time bookie Shobhan Mehta, arrested in connection with the IPL betting scandal, was today remanded in city police custody as investigators want to probe his alleged role in spot-fixing and links in Pakistan.
Mehta was produced before a Magistrate in Esplanade Court,which sent him in police remand for six days. Police told the court that Mehta was involved in placing large scale bets in the just-concluded IPL season in the name of “Arjun” through arrested bookie Ashwin Agarwal alias Tinku Delhi.
A new study has found that many black or racially mixed women in Venezuela are undergoing nose jobs in an effort to look whiter, only to find that the procedure temporarily improves their self-esteem and body image.
Cosmetic surgery is increasingly common in many countries, including Venezuela, where an obsession with physical appearance prompts many women to get breast implants, face lifts, liposuction and other cosmetic procedures.
Pakistan cricket coach Dav Whatmore has assured supporters that his side would put behind the dismal show in the ICC Champions Trophy and fight for better results on their tour of the West Indies. Accoding to the Daily Times, Whatmore said that Pakistan would fight very hard to win, with the first one-day between Pakistan and the West Indies to be played in Guyana on July 14, and five one-day and two Twenty20 matches scheduled in the series.
Network Ten has announced that the greatest wicket-keeper-batsmen in the history of the game, Adam Gilchrist AM, is joining TEN’s KFC T20 Big Bash League commentary team. Adam will join former team mate Ricky Ponting in the commentary box for the KFC T20 Big Bash League, which will be broadcast live on TEN from December 2013. Network Ten Chief Executive Officer, Hamish McLennan, said: “Adam is one of the greatest cricketers Australia has ever produced and we are very excited that he has agreed to join the team at TEN.
At least 15 people, including a woman and two children, were killed today when a moving train crushed a packed motorcycle rickshaw at a railway crossing in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
The motorcycle rickshaw carrying 16 people was passing through the unmanned railway crossing in Sheikhupura, about 40 kilometres from here, when it was hit by a Lahore-bound train coming from Karachi, rescue work spokesman Jam Sajjad told PTI.
“CII is in favour of dollar based gas pricing and the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs recent decision to increase the gas prices will not only incentivize investment in exploration and production, but will also result in increased revenues to the government which could then be invested in various development programs. This is also directionally a step towards achieving market determined pricing which will encourage the development of a competitive gas market in the country.” (ANI)