A mother was arrested for strangulating her girl child and throwing her into a manhole in the premises of a hospital in the capital, police said Friday.
The woman was arrested Thursday and admitted that she killed the child because the birth of twin girls three months ago had upset her, police said.
A sanitation employee found the dead infant Tuesday afternoon in a manhole at New Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital.
Two policemen from the Gujarat bomb disposal squad going to Patna for Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s trip were killed in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh Friday, police said.
The team, travelling in a Gujarat police vehicle, was part of a bomb disposal squad from Modi’s home state.
Firozabad Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh told IANS that the vehicle carrying the policemen was hit by a speeding truck from the rear at Sirsaganj in Firozabad district.
Two policemen died instantly while six others were injured. The dead have been identified as Gairaj Singh and Atmaram.
Pakistan is finalising the team which will hold talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a media report said Friday.
The team will consist of government officials, politicians, ulemas, intellectuals and experts on military affairs, Geo News reported citing sources.
According to the report, the Pakistan government has removed obstacles in talks with the Taliban.
During the talks, both parties will observe an unannounced ceasefire, the report added.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has slapped a temporary ban on import of all kinds of tamed, wild and ornamental living birds, their products and offal from Australia due to the appearance of infectious cases of bird flu.
The decision, issued by the UAE’s Minister of Environment and Water Rashid Ahmed bin Fahad, followed reports received from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on the appearance of infected cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H7N2).
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned 40 on Friday and celebrated the occasion by donating cash for cancer patients.
“Heartfelt thank you to everyone for the wishes. It’s a good coincidence that my birthday comes with Diwali… It’s a celebration time. I am thankful to God for this life…
Thankful to my parents for this gift of life. It means a lot to me. I embrace everything that life gives me,” Aishwarya said.
Accusing Narendra Modi of engaging in “politics of lies”, Union Minister Kapil Sibal today challenged BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate to a debate as he stated that political discourse should move from individuals to issues affecting the country.
And, as BJP quickly responded to Sibal’s challenge, saying Arun Jaitley was ready to debate him, the Union Minister said he would take on Jaitley when he also became a Prime Ministerial candidate.
He is challenging Modi to a debate as it was the Gujarat Chief Minister who was spreading lies against UPA, Sibal said.
Union Health Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday said that despite all the peace initiatives taken by India with Pakistan, its army was vitiating the environment.
He was referring to the repeated violations of the November 2003 bilateral ceasefire between India and Pakistan by the Pakistan Army on the borders of Jammu and Kashmir.
Reacting to the Election Commission’s (EC) notice to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his speeches in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, party general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday asked why Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant Narendra Modi is never issued a notice for his speeches on religion and caste. “When Modi gives speeches based on religion and caste, then Election Commission (EC) does not issue notice to him. This is a matter of concern,” he said.
Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant Narendra Modi on Friday said though Indian doctors are doing well across the world, there is a need for skilled workers in the healthcare sector in the country. “Doctors from India are doing a good job across the world. Can”t India connect to the world through healthcare?
The security personnel have made tight security arrangements for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s rally here today against the backdrop of Sunday’s serial blasts in Patna.
According to reports, Modi, who will arrive here around 1.30 p.m., will be received by Maharashtra BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis.
Several other senior Maharashtra BJP leaders will also be present at today’s rally.
Former Punjab DGP K P S Gill on Friday gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying the 2002 riots were a total failure of the police and not political leadership.
“I have written in my book that it was a total police failure and not failure of police leadership,” he said.
Gill said it was Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who called him there when the riots were taking place.
“His (Modi) intention was to prevent it. When I went there, he did not interfere in my work. And the riots came to an end within three days,” said Gill.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that, in some cases, the surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) “reached too far inappropriately”.
Kerry said Thursday he would work with President Barack Obama to make sure that this does not happen in the future, reported BBC.
The secretary also defended the NSA’s acts, saying it had prevented terrorists attacks.
A 27-year-old Indian man, who was arrested in Hong Kong in connection with the kidnapping of three Indian businessmen last month, appeared in a court in China to face the charge.
Karmjit Singh, who lives in Hong Kong, appeared in Fanling Court in the ciy Thursday to face the charge of kidnapping businessman Manmohan Singh Mangat, his banker Satwinder Singh and lawyer Gurinder Singh Gill Oct 25, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.
The three men had arrived here from India on a business trip.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi Friday slammed the visiting UN-Arab League joint envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahami, apparently for putting the government and the rebels on a par with each other.
Following Brahimi’s press conference here, in which he said “there are unacceptable practices both by the government and the armed opposition”, al-Zoubi unleashed a barrage of criticism against him, reports Xinhua.
Two persons were killed and two injured in a grenade explosion in a court building in the city of Kurgan in southern Russia, the country’s interior ministry said Friday.
“The grenade detonated at one of the small claims courts,” Xinhua reported citing the ministry’s press service.
Police said 19-year-old Mikhail Vdovin had entered the court in South Urals’ regional capital and detonated the grenade, killing himself and a court marshal.
The police believe that Vdovin had intended to blow up a judge as he was not happy with a court ruling.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday the phone tapping conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA) was “utterly cynical”.
“When they say it’s a usual practice, everyone understands that the interest in foreign leaders and states exists,” Medvedev said in an interview published on the government’s website, Xinhua reported.
“Special services exist for that. But it is assumed they don’t do it in such a cynical way,” he said.
Medvedev added that he understood foreign leaders’ grievances because “when someone spies on you, it is not very pleasant”.
Germany’s Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich Friday said the government is willing to talk with whistleblower Edward Snowden on US spying in Germany including alleged monitoring of the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The minister told reporters that Germany would like to talk with Snowden if he was willing to help shed light on the spying scandal, Xinhua reported.
Germany’s opposition Green Party plans to release a letter by Snowden to Merkel following a lawmaker’s meeting with Snowden in Moscow.
China Friday said the ethnic Uygur separatist organization East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is the most direct and real threat to the country’s security.
“The ETIM has incited, organised and committed terrorist attacks of various forms in China over the years and spread the ideas of violence and terrorism,” Xinhua quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying at a routine press briefing.
“It has been the most direct and real threat to our security, and has damaged the security of other countries and regions,” she added.
Reacting to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Asthi-Kalash Yatra for Patna blast victims, state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that the saffron outfit can do whatever they want, but the people of Bihar have rejected such politics, and they will stay united to maintain communal harmony in the region.
“BJP can do whatever it wants. Bihar is a land of harmony. They will try to disturb the communal harmony, and we know it. And we have been seeing this in the past few months,” he said.
An Indian woman in Dubai was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband outside a school.
Sonia, who hailed from the south Indian state of Kerala, was stabbed just outside the gate of the New Indian Model School (NIMS) in Al Garhoud area of the city between 10.15 a.m. and 11a.m. Thursday, yards from where pupils were taking lessons, local media reported Friday.
The victim worked in the school as an attendant.
Her husband Ranjit reportedly stabbed his wife first and then tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey.
Facebook, which boasts of 119 crore accounts globally, in a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing said it
estimates up to 7.9 per cent accounts being duplicate, and up to 2.1 per cent and up to 1.2 per cent accounts being user-misclassified and un-desirable, respectively.
We believe the percentage of accounts that are duplicate or false is meaningfully lower in developed markets such as
A man in China’s Guangdong province was Thursday awarded death sentence for killing two babies, including a two-month-old, under the influence of drugs.
Huang Mingxing, 36, s villager of Zhongshan city, was convicted of hacking to death two baby girls — one of whom was a-year-old and another two-months-old — of two families in his village, reported Xinhua citing the intermediate people’s court in a verdict.
A woman teacher in Odisha’s Rayagada district died Friday, four days after she was set ablaze by an unidentified assailant for allegedly refusing to withdraw a sexual assault complaint.
“She succumbed to her injuries at a private hospital in Visakhapatnam in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh where she was undergoing treatment. Her condition was critical,” district Superintendent of Police Rajesh Pandit told IANS.
China’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector rose to 51.4 percent in October, hitting a new high since May 2012, the official statistical agency said Friday.
The figure was 0.3 percentage points higher than September, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), reports Xinhua.
China’s manufacturing PMI increased for four consecutive months, showing a steady upward trend in manufacturing. A figure above 50 percent signals expansion.
Jewellers in Chennai are hoping to do somewhat brisk business in gold, silver, diamond during Dhanteras celebrated Friday, though the sales are expected to be down between 20-40 percent, against last year’s.
According to jewellers, sales during the Diwali season were not great and Dhanteras is expected to give them some relief.