A new study has found that both genders reported “sexual harassment via the Internet” as the most frequent form of abuse. This form of sexual abuse was experienced by roughly 28 percent of girls over the course of their lifetimes and by almost 10 percent of boys.
The Central Government will conduct an all-party meeting in the first week of next month on the Telangana issue.
According to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, the meeting would discuss various provisions of terms of reference of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana. All political parties from the State would be invited for the meeting which is likely to be held before November 7, the day when GoM is scheduled to meet for the third time since its formation.
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has been named a United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador to help its poaching campaign. According to Metro.co.uk, Toure visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya to highlight the fight against the illegal ivory trade. Toure, who was this morning named as a nominee for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, faces a tough task to help the cause given just 800 elephants remain in his native Ivory Coast, the report said.
From the ‘shoulderbeast’, who just likes to stand stalker-style behind you, to the ‘panic monster’, who is nervous and jittery all the time, an expert has revealed the types of co-workers that you just can’t stand.
First of all, there is the ‘idea killer’, a worker who lacks creativity and shoots down others new ideas, and then there is ‘gloomo’ who sucks the life out of every co-worker with his negative energy, the Huffington Post reported.
Kate Middleton’s post-pregnancy washboard stomach has led to a substantial increase in the number of women wanting to have their fat “frozen” to get rid of their “mummy tummies”.
The Duchess of Cambridge flaunted her amazing abs when she leapt for a volleyball during a photo call for a charity match in Olympic Park, the Daily Star reported.
Now, a top Harley Street beauty clinic has reported a staggering 650 percent increase in demand for Lipoglaze, a non-invasive, fat freezing treatment, from young mums who wanted to copy the princess’ abs.
Municipal Administration Minister M Maheedhar Reddy on Wednesday expressed confidence that the salaries of outsources employees of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation would be enhanced on par with the regular employees as per the PRC recommendations.
The Minister, along with Principal Secretary (MA&UD) Sameer Sharma and GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar, held a meeting with the recognized union, GHMEU, in his chamber on Wednesday.
Former minister JC Diwakar Reddy on Wednesday made it clear that he was not at all connected with the bus that met with a fire mishap in Mahabubnagar district which claimed 45 lives.
Diwakar Reddy said that he sold the bus about two years ago. Since the buyers did not change the title, it was in the name of Diwakar Roadlines. He said he had no links with the Jabbar Travels.
A new study has linked poor processing of auditory information in the adolescent brain to a lower maternal educational background.
The research conducted at Northwestern University took a previous finding, which said mother’s educational background is associated to her children’s literacy and cognitive abilities in a neuroscientific direction.
Five big cannons have been discovered from infamous pirate Blackbeard off the coast of North Carolina.
Scientists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources recovered the cannons from the Queen Anne’s Revenge on Monday nearly 300 years after its death, the CNN reported.
The team, working with the Coast Guard, brought the big guns, 2,000 and 3,000 pounds, to the surface of Beaufort Inlet.
According to the expedition manager, the largest cannon is like Swedish-made, as was another of the 40 big guns onboard that was already recovered.
A Roman sculpture of an eagle clasping a snake has been discovered by archaeologists at a London building site.
According to experts, the sculpture, which was found in the City of London during a dig at a building site, is the finest sculpture by a Romano-British artist, Sky News reported.
The sculpture, made from oolitic limestone sourced from the Cotswolds, dates from the first or second century AD.
Archaeologists, who also unearthed the foundations of a mausoleum during the dig, believe that the stone eagle once adorned the structure.
GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain informed that the GHMC is spending Rs. 2 crores for the ensuing Moharrum arrangements.
The Mayor along with GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar, Corporators and senior officials from GHMC have inspected procession routes on Wednesday evening. He has informed that a BT road worth Rs. 40 lakhs has been taken up and opined that all the developmental works in the procession routes and on approached roads will be completed by 10th Moharrum. He further informed that the street lights material has already been available in South Zone.
British boxer Amir Khan has said that meeting unbeaten champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. would be his dream fight. Khan”s proposed fight with former WBC and IBF light-welterweight champ Devon Alexander has fallen through, which has paved the way for a lucrative clash with Mayweather next year. According to the Daily Star, the American is still in top form, having recently outclassed Mexican superstar Saul ”Canelo” Alvarez to claim his 45th successive win.
Giving major relief to YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the CBI Court at Nampally on Wednesday relaxed the bail conditions enabling him to tour Andhra Pradesh and visit Delhi.
The CBI Court took the decision after hearing an petition filed by Jagan Mohan Reddy on October 11 seeking permission to relax bail conditions.
Chief Australian selector John Inverarity has confirmed that Shaun Marsh is a contender to play in the Ashes, and this was followed by his selection for Australia A to face England next week. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Marsh, 30, said he was buoyed by the positive news from selectors but acknowledged he had to justify their faith with good batting form, starting against the Bushrangers. The cricketer said that he really enjoyed red-ball cricket but it was an area that he needed to improve in, adding that his one-day cricket had been good over the past two or three months.
Highveld Lions coach Geoff Toyana has said that the idea of quotas for black players in South African domestic cricket is not a bad thing but in fact, it is spot on. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Toyana pointed out that more players would be exposed and in the next two to three years, the world will see a black batsman playing for South Africa or guys like Mangaliso Mosehle might come in as a wicketkeeper. He added that it could not be explained that a population of 80 percent black African people cannot produce one Test player, as it does not make sense.
A maid was Wednesday raped and beaten up by two men when she resisted their theft bid in her employer’s home, police said.
“The victim belonging to Assam was raped by two thieves in the Hari Nagar area of west Delhi Wednesday afternoon,” said a police officer.
The maid, 19, was alone when three thieves entered the house.
Seeing them, she started shouting. One of the thieves then pointed a knife while two others raped her. They then took valuables valued Rs.50,000 and fled from the scene.
Police said the victim later told her employer about the assault and theft.
As many as 59 officers passed out as Deputy Superintendents of Police from the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy here on Wednesday.
Traces of a Third Front emerged Wednesday in time for the 2014 general election as 14 parties from across India shared a dais here and vowed to combat the threat of communalism.
The gathering, convened by Left parties, brought together Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav as well as representatives of the AIADMK, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Although there was no formal talk of a Third Front to take on both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the 14 parties resolved to preserve communal amity.
A speech and hearing impaired teenaged girl was allegedly gangraped by the relatives of her newly-wed aunt after the wedding reception at Baduria in North 24-Parganas district, police said today.
“The girl was gangraped by the youths after the wedding reception was over last night. She was spotted moaning later,” Additional Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Mukherjee said.
Four of the culprits were arrested today, he said.
–PTI
Pakistani police have cleared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf of any direct involvement in the death of a cleric of the radical Lal Masjid during a 2007 military operation, according to a media report today.
Musharraf was not named as one of the main accused in a police report after a joint investigation team completed its probe into the killing of cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his mother, Express News channel reported.
Pakistan today ruled out the possibility of handing over key Taliban commander Mullah Baradar to Afghanistan but said the Afghan High Peace Council was welcome to visit the country and meet him.
“We are saying the High Peace Council can meet him. They are most welcome if they want to meet him,” said Tariq Fatemi, the Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs.
Expressing shock and anguish over the ghastly bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today said that an inquiry would be conducted into the tragedy to prevent recurrence of such accidents.
Reddy, who is away on a tour of rain-hit north coastal Andhra districts, monitored the situation from Visakhapatnam, an official release said.
Kerala Government has finalised a rehabilitation package for Keralites who return from Saudi Arabia following the implementation of Nitaqat Labour Law in that country, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today.
The general pardon period announced by Saudi Arabia will expire on November 1 and government has taken several steps, including arrangements to bring back the expatriates who have to return, he told reporters during the briefing on Cabinet meeting.
Egypt has arrested a key figure in the Muslim Brotherhood after months on the run.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said Essam el-Erian, the deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice party, was apprehended in the early hours Wednesday in an apartment in an eastern Cairo suburb.
According to Dawn News, El-Erian is one of the few senior Brotherhood figures still on the run.
el-Erian was among the group’s more moderate figures but turned hard-line and went into hiding after Egypt’s military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, the report said.
Americans consume an enormous amount of media daily via television, radio, phone and computer.
But exactly how much media flows to individuals and households in a year? Try 6.9 zettabytes – that’s 6.9 million MILLION gigabytes.
This massive U.S. media consumption is the topic of “How Much Media? 2013 Report on American Consumers,” produced by the Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at the USC Marshall School of Business and CTM Visiting Researcher James E. Short.