Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has confessed that setting ”Control-Alt-Delete” as a way to log in to Windows was a mistake.
According to Fox News, during a talk at Harvard, Gates said that there was an option to make a single button for such a command, but the IBM keyboard designer didn”t want to give Microsoft one.
Pakistan Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul Haq has reportedly been retained to lead his side for next month”s Test series against South Africa despite poor results leading to a first loss to Zimbabwe in 15 years. Although Misbah”s position was announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the other members of the Test squad will be announced later, while batsman Umar Amin has been reportedly selected to captain Pakistan A side in a three-day warm-up game against the South Africans.
A survivor from Thursday’s militant attack in Kashmir recounted his fear of the incident on Friday.
Militants dressed in Indian Army uniforms attacked police and soldiers in Kathua and Samba Districts. In all, 12 persons were killed in the twin terror strikes.
A civilian, Rohit Sharma, who runs a shop near the attacked police station, said that though he escaped the attack, his neighbour was killed.
BJP president Rajnath Singh Friday said his party plans to contest around 450 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections and targets to win around 272 — so as to form the next central government on its own.
On the Supreme Court verdict calling for negative voting by electronic voting machines (EVMs) and ballot papers, Rajnath Singh urged the poll panel to call an all-party meeting to discuss its implications.
“We may contest in 450 seats and target to win 272 of them,” he told reporters here.
Remembering film legend Yash Chopra on his 81st birth anniversary, Shah Rukh Khan said that the ‘King of Romance’ was a fearless filmmaker.
Shah Rukh, 47, who worked with the director right from Darr to his last project Jab Tak Hai Jaan, is all set to walk the ramp today to celebrate the late filmmaker’s birthday.
SRK said Chopra was a mentor and someone who taught him a lot about cinema.
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has warned similar attacks, like Nairobi mall massacre, will happen again as the Al Qaeda-linked terror group al-Shahab continues its fight for dominance.
Mohamud said al-Shahab might conduct this kind of brutal attacks again and again as they have special units to brainwash young people for participating in jihad, the Daily Star reports.
The death toll in the Kenya mall siege was raised to 72 on Thursday, after the number of Brits killed was revised from six to five, the report added.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said his government stood for peaceful resolution of all issues with India, including Kashmir. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal during his visit to New York, Sharif said he will be meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the next few days to talks about a peaceful resolution to all the issues between the two countries.
Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily as well as officials of the oil ministry and its PSUs will travel by public transport once a week starting Oct 9 as part of a fuel conservation drive.
“Fuel conservation is a necessity and I have to be the first person to set the example,” Moily told media persons here, announcing he would ride buses every Wednesday.
This and other measures like staggered office timings for government employees, which are part of a mega fuel conservation drive, unveiled by Moily earlier this week, are expected to save $5 billion in oil imports.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his eyes firmly on the prime ministerial chair, is hardselling his government’s skill development achievements ahead of the general elections in a bid to win over disillusioned youth.
In an event here earlier this week, attended by over 7,000 people, Modi made a big show of the state’s skill development programmes, which he said would help the country shape up its youth according to global requirements.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said his country is committed to enhancing peace and stability in the region, particularly in Afghanistan.
Sharif was speaking to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported Friday.
He underlined his government’s full support to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process in the shared goal of a comprehensive reconciliation.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed N.Srinivasan to contest the BCCI elections this Sunday, but said that if he wins, he cannot take charge as president as long as the hearing of the case related to him and the board is being heard.
The apex court ruling came on a petition filed by the Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), which sought to restrain Srinivasan from seeking re-election pending the verdict on a petition filed by the CAB in July.
The court is expected to hear the matter again on Monday, a day after the BCCI election.
At least 19 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bomb placed in a Civil Secretariat bus exploded in Peshawar.
Police and rescue officials reached the area and injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Charsadda District Headquarters Hospital, the Express Tribune reports.
The bus was carrying around 30 to 40 employees of the Secretariat, the report added.
According to the report, emergency has been declared in LRH following the blast.
The Pakistan Supreme Court has rejected former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s verbal request for release in the Akber Bugti murder case.
A two-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, led the hearing on a bail request of Musharraf.
According to Dawn News, during the hearing, the bench rejected Musharraf’s verbal request for release, saying that the complainant must be present in person before the court for its judgment.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today welcomed the Supreme Court order giving voters the right to cast a negative vote rejecting all candidates and pitched for compulsory voting, saying it would make democracy “vibrant and participative”.
“I wholeheartedly welcome this. I am sure it will have a long lasting impact on our polity and will be a great step in the direction of further electoral reforms that can make our democracy even more vibrant and participative,” Modi said in his blog.
Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s description of the ordinance on convicted politicians as ‘complete nonsense’ and a document that needed to be torn and thrown away, Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Friday said such statements clearly indicate that there are differences between the Congress Party and the UPA Government.
“I would like to ask Rahul Gandhi then what is his comment on the action of the Congress-led UPA Government,” Singh told media here.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday criticized Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi after he described the government’s controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as ‘complete nonsense’.
BJP Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi questioned whether the UPA is a government or a theatrical production.
Is this a government or a theatrical production? With such drama, the Congress will not be able to hide the government’s failures…,” said Naqvi.
As global tourism players celebrate World Tourism Day (WTD) Thursday, the United Nations asked the trillion dollar sector to cut water consumption and ensure a sustainable water future.
“In this International Year of Water Cooperation, I urge tourism establishments to cut consumption and improve waste management, and I call on individuals to play their part by making environmentally conscious choices when they travel,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Central government, responding to Tripura’s demand, has given it a one-time exemption from conducting a teachers eligibility test (TET) for recruiting 5,000 school teachers, state’s Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said Friday.
“HRD (human resource development) ministry’s additional secretary Vrinda Sarup in a letter to Tripura’s principal secretary (education) informed that the government has given a one-time exemption from conducting TET prior to recruiting around 5,000 school teachers,” the minister told the on-going session of the assembly.
In a major set-back to Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf, the country’s Supreme Court Friday rejected his request for release in the murder case of Balochistan leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, a media report said.
A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk rejected Musharraf’s verbal request for release, saying that he must be present in person before the court for its judgment, reported the DawnNews.
Musharraf is also facing other charges, including conspiracy to kill former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said that surveillance needed to be strengthened in the state to prevent terrorist attacks like the twin strikes at Samba and Kathua.
“While expressing sorrow over the loss of civilians and security force personnel in the twin terrorist attacks, the Chief Minister stressed the need for further strengthening the surveillance and security measures to avoid such strikes in future,” an official spokesman said.
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor today said people will learn the truth about his reported affairs only when he gets married.
“When I will get married, the truth behind these reports will come out on its own. It is the media which is publishing all these news,” Ranbir said, talking to reporters here.
The actor, who is currently dating Katrina Kaif after his break up with Deepika Padukone, added that at present he is focused on his films.
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have greeted Mata Amritanandamayi Devi on her 60th birthday Friday, and hailed the spiritual leader’s charity-driven work and efforts to spread the message of love.
President Pranab Mukherjee lauded the initiatives of the humanitarian icon to serve people within India and abroad.
“It is her love and compassion for all human beings, irrespective of their caste, creed and religion” that she is “popularly known as Amma”, he said.
China is willing to work together with the United States to take concrete steps to push forward the development of bilateral ties in the right direction and ensure its steady improvement, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai said Thursday. Speaking at a reception to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People”s Republic of China, Cui hailed the smooth transition of the China-U.S. relations during the government changes in both countries early this year. He saluted the important consensus, reached by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S.
Former President Bill Clinton has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is trustworthy and has never gone back on a promise. During a gathering at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Clinton said that Putin kept his word in all the deals they have made. Clinton made the comments in context of speaking about Syria, and the plan forged by Russia to strip President Bashar al-Assad of his chemical weapon stash and turn it over to the international community for destruction.
In a blow to its secret operations, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was asked by the Islamabad High Court to submit details of its statute by which the country’s powerful espionage agency was functioning and recruiting its manpower.
According to a petition filed in June this year by ISI’s 34 civilian inspectors, the spy agency’s “slow and discriminatory promotion process” had led to an uncertainty over the status of the ISI’s civilian inspectors.