Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday said that the Food Security Bill has never been a top priority for the Congress-led UPA Government, and demanded that there should be a proper discussion in the Parliament on it before it is passed.
Congress Rajya Sabha member Palvai Govardhan Reddy charged the Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal of speaking like an insane person.
Talking to the media here on Wednesday, he said how could Rajagopal who bought his ticket by giving money to the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy would understand the problems of the people. He has declared that there was no need for a resolution by the Assembly for creating Telangana.
He reminded that even a strong leadser like Indira Gandhi could not suppress the Telangana movement.
Do you rely on your hand gestures to get your point across – thank fish for that.
Scientists have found that the evolution of the control of speech and hand movements can be traced back to the same place in the brain, which could explain why we use hand gestures when we are speaking.
“We have traced the evolutionary origins of the behavioural coupling between speech and hand movement back to a developmental compartment in the brain of fishes,” Professor Andrew Bass of Cornell University said.
Former US President George W. Bush has reportedly said that history will judge the decisions he made during his term and opinion polls do not matter to him much. Bush said that he could care less for the public polls which shows that Americans have started to look at his presidency in a more positive light, Washington Times reports.
The Odisha government will provide self-defence training to 2.5 lakh college girls in the next six months, an official said Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the state secretariat Wednesday.
At least 300 trainers have been shortlisted to provide self-defence skills, including martial arts, to students of colleges of the state, an official at the chief minister’s office told IANS.
While 200 trainers have been selected from colleges, police will provide 100 trainers.
TRS leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao lambasted the Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal, for opposing Telangana. He said Lagadapati was talking without sense.
Some leaders of other parties belonging to Zaharibad, Medak district have joined the TRS on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Harish Rao declared that the TRS would not rest until it achieved Telangana. Referring to the reports that Telangana would soon be a reality, Harish has alleged that some Seemandhra leaders were trying to obstruct the state division.
Internet Corporation Yahoo has added Qwiki, a video-sharing app to its list of recent acquisitions of technology companies. Qwiki CEO Doug Imbruce said that Qwiki will remain an independent app like Tumblr within Yahoo and continue to grow their thriving community and help create better user experience, ABC News reports. According to the report, Qwiki is an iPhone app that allows users to gather photos, short video clips and other multimedia and create a short, easily-shareable video clips.
On a day when the CBI said the Ishrat Jahan shootout in Gujarat was staged, the BJP Wednesday blamed the agency for underplaying terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) role and accused the central government of playing with the nation’s security.
“The CBI charge sheet underplays the role of LeT, and certainly indicts the Indian security apparatus,” said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman.
Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are going to benefit with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s decision of extending amnesty for illegal foreign workers in order to obtain legal status in the country from the previous deadline of July 3 to November 3. Director of the branch office of the Labour Ministry in Riyadh, Fahd Bin Ali Al Khilaiwi said that a massive public campaign against violating expatriate workers will be launched giving details of the new extensions and penalties applicable, Gulf News reports.
Iran”s newly elected President, Hassan Rouhani, has expressed relatively progressive views about civil liberties, freedom of expression and the Internet in his first press conference.
According to Rouhani, social networking sites, such as Facebook, were a welcome phenomenon. He added that he opposed segregation of sexes in society and he would work to minimize censorship. He also mentioned Internet filtering is futile.
He further said that Iranians” freedoms and rights have been neglected.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha has called her role in upcoming film Lootera the most challenging till date and credits her director Vikramaditya Motwane for bringing out the best in her.
The movie set in the 50s, will see the 26-year-old actress play a Bengali girl Paakhi Roy Chaudhary, who falls in love with a con man, played by Ranveer Singh.
More people die from heart-disease during the winter months because brown fat is activated by the cold, a new study has suggested.
The present study, which has been conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, and Linkoping University in Sweden, and three universities in China, demonstrates a new principle by which the cold increases the risk of atherosclerosis.
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday lashed out at the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its chargesheet said that the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake.
A new video uploaded on YouTube shows a motorist colliding with two cows, who were engaged in sex while crossing the road.
The funny clip that originated in Russia, shows that the driver was apparently mesmerised by what he saw and forgot to push the brake pedal, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The animals appeared to have departed the scene unhurt, the same can not be said for the vehicle which has a smashed windscreen and crumpled front. (ANI)
The chief of the Afghan army has said Pakistan is complicit in US drone strikes, despite its condemnation of the anti-militant campaign.
In an interview with BBC’s Today programme, General Sher Mohammad Karimi said that US has not started drone attacks on its own, arguing Pakistan had given the lists of militants to the super power it wants taken out.
First Lady Michelle Obama and her predecessor in the White House, Laura Bush, took to stage to draw attention towards efforts for improvement of women’s health and welfare in east Africa.
Michelle helped Laura open a summit of the wives of African leaders, claiming that Africa was at the hub of global development, Newsmax.com reported.
George Bush had launched a program to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa when he was in office and an expansion of a program to detect and treat cervical and breast cancer, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, is set to be announced on Wednesday, organizers said.
Health advisors have lowered obesity measure BMI’s threshold for British Asians.
According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance, this and other ethnic groups should be more careful about their weight, as they are prone to diseases such as diabetes, the BBC reported.
The much stricter target has brought the UK in line with recommendations given by the Indian and World Health Organization.
The new threshold stipulates that a 5ft 11in (1.8m) Asian man should weigh below 75kg, whereas an Asian woman measuring 5ft 3in should weigh less than 59kg.
Shah Rukh Khan and wife Gauri welcomed their new baby boy through surrogacy on May 27.
A leading daily reports that BMC officials had received a birth report with details that a baby boy was born to the couple at Masrani Hospital for Women in Andheri.
The pair’s new son was taken from Masrani to Nanavati Hospital, Juhu, and then to Breach Candy Hospital.
According to a BMC executive health officer Dr Arun Bamne, the child was born at 34 weeks of pregnancy and weighed 1.5kg at birth.
A recent analysis suggests that Americans want their governments’ participation in the international affairs to be minimized.
According to the study, the number of Americans wanting their government to stay out of international affairs is higher than it has been since the Vietnam War, according to a new analysis.
The study conducted by Oregon State University historian Christopher McKnight Nichols said that doubts about American involvement abroad are on the rise, up 10 percent in a decade.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Pakistan could increase by at least 1.5 percent during next financial year 2014-15 due to normalization of trade with India.
The normalization of trade relations with India would also create approximately 169,000 jobs in Pakistan over a three years period.
According to the Nation, this was revealed in a research led by renowned economist Dr. Hafiz Pasha and conducted by IPP of the Beaconhouse National University on the dynamics and impact of liberalizing trade between Pakistan and India.
At least 17 people were killed in a U.S. drone strike launched in Pakistan”s northwest tribal area of North Waziristan in the wee hours of Wednesday, reported local media Geo.
According to the local media reports, the strike took place at about 1: 00 a.m. (local time) when U.S. drones fired four missiles at a house and a vehicle in the Danda Derpa Khel area of Miranshah, a main town in North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.
Two missiles hit the house while the other two hit the vehicle, said the reports.
Identities of the killed are not immediately available.
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane was reportedly diverted from Russia to Vienna on Tuesday over suspicions of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden onboard. While officials in Austria and Bolivia denied Snowden’s presence after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace, an irked Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said that the authorities do not know who raised the false alarm adding that Bolivia denounces to the international community this injustice with the plane of president, Fox News reports.
Internet corporation Apple’s stores in France were reportedly raided by competition authorities last week. According to Express.co.uk, the raids were conducted as part of an ongoing investigation about Apple’s relationship with its distributors. A firm called eBizcuss, who went out of business last year, reportedly filed complaints with the French authorities and alleged that Apple favoured its own stores at the expense of independent distributors. The report added that Apple representatives in France did not comment on the matter. (ANI)
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has reportedly called on the armed forces to withdraw their ‘ultimatum’ and has asserted that he cannot be dictated internally or externally. The military had issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Morsi and his opponents to reach an agreement to meet the people”s demands or it will intervene to put forward a political road map for the country and ensure that it is carried out.
A new study suggests that taking a two-minute stroll around the office every half hour could save millions from the misery of diabetes.
Leaving the desk for a walkabout can have a bigger impact on your health than a brisk 30-minute walk before work, the Daily Express reported.
Anthony Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, said lifestyle changes can significantly reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes, which is reaching epidemic proportions in Britain.