In a first, the Delhi Chief Electoral Office will keep a “live watch” on 630 critical booths through web-casting to deter people from indulging in any nuisance on the polling day.
Besides, CCTV cameras will be installed and central paramilitary force personnel along with micro observers will be present inside the critical polling stations.
The case of the two Italian Marines facing trial in India for murder will not be resolved by Christmas, Rome’s envoy in the case has said.
Marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were arrested for the killing of two Indian fisherman off the coast of Kerala in February last year. They are currently on bail pending trial and are living and working at the Italian embassy in New Delhi.
“It won’t be possible to resolve this question by Christmas, as was our hope,” diplomat Staffan De Mistura told Italy’s Radio 1.
Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, accused of rape, Saturday found support from former union minister Eduardo Faleiro, whose daughter Sonia was once employed as an editor at the investigative news weekly.
In a statement released to the media Saturday, Faleiro, a Congressman, accused the BJP and the Goa government of harassing Tejpal and “settling scores” with him.
“We should condemn the misuse of Goa Police by the present government in the case of Tarun Tejpal, the founding editor of Tehelka,” the former minister of state for external affairs said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said he will not dismantle any of its nuclear facilities to reach a long-term agreement with the world powers to limit its nuclear development.
In an interview, Rouhani said that dismantling Iran’s nuclear facilities was a “red line,” CNN reports.
The statement came less than a week after Iran and the P5+1 nations reached an interim six-month deal last weekend to limit Tehran’s nuclear development.
The world leaders want a long-term guarantee that Iran won’t produce nuclear weapons .
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday left on a day-long visit to Kabul where he will hold talks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to firm up the peace process with the Taliban in the war-torn country.
It will be Sharif’s first visit to Afghanistan since he came into power in May.
He would hold talks with Karzai and members of High Peace Council on bilateral relations and the peace process following withdrawal of the US-led coalition forces from Afghanistan.
Passenger dies by heart attack at airport
(Siasat News): In a bizarre incident, a passenger died at Shamshabad airport when he suffered a massive heart attack.
According to the details, the passenger Durgadas Mishra, 50, reached Hyderabad from Bangalore by Jet airways. He was there at the airport premises to look for a ride to Raipur.
Just then he suffered a massive heart attack and died on the spot. Shamshabad RGI police has registered a case and investigations are on to trace his relatives.
It’s been confirmed – an old person does actually have a distinct scent. Dr Eric Shapira, Gerontologist and author of ‘A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age’ said that it is difficult to pinpoint the cause of the smell, as it is a process of what happens to the body as one ages.
However, even though the smell exists, it definitely doesn’t smell bad, Stuff.co.nz reported.
In a study, Johan Lundstrom of the Monell Chemical Senses Center tested the odours from the underarms of middle-aged adults and the elderly.
A new study has revealed that sex can be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life.
The research, which was conducted on fruit flies, found that male fruit flies that perceived sexual pheromones of their female counterparts- without the opportunity to mate- experienced rapid decreases in fat stores, resistance to starvation and more stress. The sexually frustrated flies lived shorter lives.
Mating, on the other hand, partially reversed the negative effects on health and aging.
Whether the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Tower of Babel, humankind has always been reaching for the sky. But do you know about the crucial technologies that led to the development of the first skyscraper.
Emporis, the international provider of building data, looks back over more than 100 years of skyscraper history and presents the towers that have so far been entitled to proudly bear the title of “World’s Tallest Building.”
Obsessive gamers miss out on sex, sleep and toilet breaks. According to a survey conducted by Domino’s Pizza, gamers are prepared to miss toilet break, and even give up sex to get their console fix, the Daily Star reported.
A third of those surveyed admitted that they ignore using the bathroom and one in seven people confessed that they relieve themselves in bottles to avoid leaving the living room.
Others confessed that they preferred to spend the day playing games instead of attending funerals and 25 percent of females said they have even missed a friend’s wedding for gaming. (ANI)
A man has been charged with criminal damage after he went to his former flat to have sex and broke the bed, curtain rails and window sill.
Adam Disney of Solihull, who still had a key to his former home, used his empty flat to have sex with his female companion, the Mirror reported.
Neighbors called the cops at about 10.45 am after they heard noises.
Disney, who appeared at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, was originally charged to burglary with intent to cause damage but the charge was changed to criminal damage .
Australian coach Darren Lehmann has said that his team will not forego their aggressive, ‘in-their-face’ cricket against England in the ongoing Ashes Test series.
Australia captain Michael Clarke was fined 20 percent of his match fee by the ICC after warning England’s James Anderson to expect a ‘f******’ broken arm at the Gabba and the final day of the first Test, which Australia won by 381 runs, boiled over with constant sledging and plenty of finger pointing.
Outgoing military chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Friday handed over the command of the army to Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif.
He passed the baton of command to Gen Sharif at a ceremony held in the Army Hockey Stadium, close to the General Headquarters (GHQ).
The entire area around the venue of the ceremony was blocked off with military and police personnel deployed in the area. Except for the invitees, no one was allowed to move into the area.
At least three people have been feared dead after a police helicopter crashed into Clutha Vaults bar in Glasgow that was hosting a live music event.
The police helicopter carrying two police officers and a civilian when it crashed into the pub just before 10.30 at night causing multiple injuries.
Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond, said that they must all prepare for the likelihood of fatalities and posted a tweet confirming the accident, the Guardian reports.
A day after giving a clarification on his black paint protest outside the residence of former Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Jolly said Saturday that police in Delhi were politically prosecuting and persecuting him at the behest of the ruling Congress Party.
National Women’s Commission ( NCW) member Sameena Shafiq on Saturday criticised Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, for revealing the surname of the victim of the sexual assault case involving former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal on Twitter .
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former cricketer Kirti Azad on Saturday claimed that Tehelka magazine founder editor Tarun Tejpal was looking for ways to evade the law in connection with his role in a sexual harassment and assault case filed against him earlier this month, and asked why he was doing so.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily dedicated India’s first state-of-the-art Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) plant at Panipat, Haryana to the nation today in the presence of Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Textiles Panabakka Lakshmi and other dignitaries.
Moily described this is as a milestone achievement by Indian Oil Corporation, India’s largest company to visualise and implement such a project, which he said would provide the product E-SBR indigenously.
“This will result in substantial amount of savings of foreign exchange,” he said.
The government has signed a six month peace deal with the northeast militant outfit, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam on Friday.
“The agreement is a little stricter than the agreement signed earlier with the other groups. Based on our experience we have made it stringent and they will be moving into the camps as and when the camps are ready,” said Joint Secretary (Northeast) in the Home Ministry, Shambhu Singh.
Commerce and Industries Minister Anand Sharma has said he will not compromise on food subsidies for the poor, at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting to be held in Bali, Indonesia, next week, but left open the possibility of an interim subsidy deal designed to salvage a trillion-dollar trade pact.
The meeting is to be held from December 3.
Anand Sharma, who will be leading the delegation to Indonesia, said the G-33 group of developing countries supported the stance on the country’s food subsidy programme.
Prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Narendra Modi on Friday accused the ruling Congress government in Rajasthan of snatching lands belonging to the poor and deprived.
Addressing a BJP rally in Pokhran, Modi said there was no one in the (Congress) party from whom justice could be demanded since the party was full of thieves.
“I want to ask the people of Jaisalmer, who has seized lakhs of acres of your land? Who took acres and acres of your land? And they (Sonia Gandhi) preach to the world. When the thief is at home, to whom do we complain to?” thundered Modi.
Tehelka magazine founder editor Tarun Tejpal on Saturday confirmed that he has joined an investigation started by Goa Police in connection with the sexual assault case filed against him.
Speaking to media outside the Crime Branch headquarters of Goa Police in the Dona Paula area of Panaji this morning, Tejpal said: “From the very beginning, I had said that we would cooperate in the investigation with the police. And because of that, I reached here after being issued a summons by the police.”
In an awe-inspiring show of patriotism, the Crown Prince of Dubai celebrated his country’s winning of the World Expo 2020 bid by waving the national flag sitting at the top of the spire of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
Prince Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum published the 15-second video on his Instagram account and wrote a congratulatory message to the UAE, the Al Arabiya reported.
“This flag is accustomed to being at the top, and all the summits will belong to it,” he wrote in Arabic on Wednesday.
The hearing on Tarun Tejpal’s anticipatory bail petition today resumed in a District and Sessions court here.
Tejpal’s lawyer Geeta Luthra continued her arguments before judge Anuja Prabhudesai, who had yesterday given the Tehelka editor interim protection till this morning against arrest in the case of alleged sexual assault on a woman journalist in the magazine.
The public prosecutor will later submit arguments.
Ahead of hearing on his bail petition, Tejpal visited the Crime Branch office here this morning and said he was cooperating in the investigation.
I am not required to attend court and I have already “joined the investigation” as was expected of me, Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal told reporters here after a brief visit to the Crime Branch office Saturday.
Tejpal, who was grilled for two hours Friday, was called to Goa Police unit Crime Branch office near Panaji again Saturday for questioning.
“I am not required to attend court. I was required to join the investigation and I have joined the investigation,” Tejpal said in a brief comment outside the office before leaving in a car.