President Pranab Mukherjee will visit West Bengal from December 6 to 8.
On December 6, he will attend the concluding ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and a felicitation function organized by the Nayaprajanma and Suri Sabujer Abhijan at Suri, Birbhum.
He will also inaugurate the Youth Science Congress organized by the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation at Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan.
Police have registered a case against a French tourist for allegedly sexually abusing a group of children in Odisha’s beach town of Puri, an official said Thursday.
Middle-aged Mathew Furic allegedly indulged in paedophilia with a group of boys on a secluded area of the beach at Puri, about 56 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, a number of times between Nov 23 and 26.
The alleged incident came to light after James Foster Gorman, an American tourist, lodged a complaint with the local police Nov 2 and said he saw Furic perform oral sex with the children.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s statement seeking a debate on Article 370 of the constitution giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir has stirred a hornet’s nest, but it transpires he might actually have been referring to the state’s property rights.
Addressing a largely attended public rally here on Sunday, Modi said it needs to be debated whether Article 370 has actually benefited the people of the state.
Cricket Australia has apologised for tweeting an image of England spinner Monty Panesar with four bearded men wearing turbans.
CA posted the picture, taken from Instagram, on its official Twitter account late on Thursday morning, day one of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide.
The pictures also had a caption reading: Will the real Monty Panesar please stand up.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the men were dressed in bright purple, red, green and yellow clothes.
The four depicted children’s TV characters the Teletubbies and originated from here.
China Mobile has reportedly signed a deal with Apple to offer iPhone on its network, a move that would give the tech giant a big push in the world’s largest mobile market.
According to AllThingsD, the rollout of Apple’s flagship product on China Mobile is expected to start this month by December 18.
The network, one of the world’s largest mobile carrier s, boasts of over 700 million subscribers but doesn’t offer iPhones, the report added. (ANI)
Researchers have designed a new GER mood-sweater that will help the wearer express what he or she is feeling at that very moment without saying anything.
According to the Guardian, the sweater, developed by design lab Sensoree, uses Galvanic Skin Response to exploit the conductance of human skin changes in response to stimuli.
Sensoree ‘s high-tech garments consist of a funnel-shaped LED collar in a range of colours, like green for “tranquil – Zen” and yellow for “nirvana – ecstatic, blissful”.
A new research has showed that poor sleep quality is strongly associated with mood disturbance and lower quality of life among people with extreme obesity.
Results show that 74.8 percent of participants were poor sleepers, and their mean self-reported sleep duration was only six hours and 20 minutes.
Fifty-two percent of study subjects were anxious, and 43 percent were depressed. After controlling for age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, and obstructive sleep apnea, sleep quality and daytime sleepiness were significantly associated with mood disturbance and quality of life impairment.
A new study by Indian origin researcher has revealed that the synthesis of the most active component of grape seed extract, B2G2, encourages the cell death known as apoptosis in prostate cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
Asthma hampers dating, sexual pleasure and careers of people afflicted with the disease, a new study has claimed.
According to Asthma Australia report on the study, about 33 percent of dads suffering from uncontrolled asthma avoid running around with their kids.
More than 1000 people with poor asthma control took part in the study.
More than 10 percent mothers said that they avoided playtime with their kids and 16 per cent of parents said that they found it difficult to carry their kid, News.com.au reported.
A US-based think-tank has claimed that India is expanding its ability to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including more powerful nuclear weapons, citing satellite imagery of an under construction gas centrifuge facility near Mysore.
In their latest report, David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said that India appeared to be finishing construction of what appears to be a second gas centrifuge facility at the Rare Materials Plant (RMP) near Mysore in Karnataka.
A Mumbai court on Thursday ordered a fresh trial of the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
After Salman had requested the court that the earlier evidence presented in the case be disregarded, the The court said all evidence and witnesses will be re-examined when the hearing of the case begins from December 24.
Earlier, a court had ordered that Khan be tried for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which attracts ten years of imprisonment. The actor had pleaded not guilty in court.
The West Indies were bowled out for 213 in their first innings against New Zealand on the third day of their first cricket Test at University Oval here.
The Windies’ paltry total Wednesday was in response to the Kiwis’ first innings tally of 609 for nine declared. For the hosts, Tim Southee (4/52) and Trent Boult (3/40) were the chief wreckers.
Brief scores: New Zealand 609/9 dec (Ross Taylor 217 not out, Brendon McCullum 113; Best 3/148) vs West Indies 213 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul 76, Darren Bravo 40, Darren Sammy 27 not out; Tim Southee 4/52, Trent Boult 3/40).
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The Dutch health activist is serious about popularising the novel concept. To promote the idea and create awareness, she, along with other activists, has been working around the globe for the last four months, carrying the belly tray laden with a range of female condoms. AP photo for representation only
Think of a hawker carrying a belly tray at a busy traffic junction, a bus station or in a cricket stadium and peddling not sweets and snacks, but female contraceptives!
Pakistan Supreme Court today ordered action against former prime minister Raja Parvez Ashraf and several others in the multi-billion Rupees development funds case.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ruled that the former premier misused his powers while allocating development funds to the people of “his liking”.
Ashraf-led Pakistan People’s Party government had approved Rs 52 billion uplift schemes during its last days.
The Supreme Court had directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to trace beneficiaries of the massive funds.
The US National Security Agency gathers nearly 5 billion cell phone records around the world every day to track the movements of individuals and map their relationships, according to the Washington Post.
The records feed a vast database that stores information about the locations of at least hundreds of millions of devices, the influential US newspaper reported Wednesday citing top-secret documents and interviews with US intelligence officials
As the ugly face of match-fixing has re-surfaced, former Pakistan Test pacer Sarfraz Nawaz today demanded an inquiry into the national team’s recent defeats against minnows Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Nawaz also demanded that Pakistan’s former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar be investigated by anti-corruption unit for his recent comments about some unnamed Pakistani players with reference to corruption and fixing.
The benchmark BSE Sensex today regained psychological 21,000 level by surging over 439 points in the opening trade on heavy fund inflows amidst exit polls forecasting good show by the BJP in state assembly elections.
The 30-share index, which had lost 189.30 points in the previous two sessions, rebounded by 439.55 points, or 2.12 per cent, to trade above 21,000 level at 21,148.26.
All the sectoral indices, led by banking, capital goods and realty, were trading in positive zone with gains up to 4.02 per cent.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said India needs to develop a strong domestic manufacturing base in electronics and telecommunication, adding that the usage of internet is quite low in the country.
“I would like to take today’s opportunity to repeat a point that I made last year. India needs to develop a strong domestic manufacturing base in electronics and telecommunication. It is estimated that by 2020 India will be importing electronics product worth $300 billion, which will be more than the value of our oil imports.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA T Harish Rao on Thursday categorically stated that people of the region would never accept Rayala Telangana under any circumstances.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark Sensex soared to over 400 points in early morning trade on Thursday, and regained the 21,000 level in the wake of several exit polls predicting a Bharatiya Janata Party win in four of the five states that recently held assembly elections.
The states that went to polls were Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan. Polls were held between November 11 and December 4. The counting of votes will take place on December 8.
Normal life came to a standstill in the entire Telangana region on Thursday following a ‘bandh’ call given by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in protest against the Centre’s reported move on Rayala Telangana.
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual assaulting a woman journalist, is sticking to his version that whatever happened between the two was a “consensual act”, a police officer said today.
“The investigation is heading in the right direction and we are interrogating Tejpal in detail… He is cooperating,” a senior official, who is part of the Crime Branch team investigating the case, said.
The detailed statements of Tejpal are being recorded by a team led by Investigating Officer (IO) Sunita Sawant under the supervision of Deputy Superintendent of Police Sammy Tavares.
Winter session of Parliament began today on a sombre note as both Houses condoled the death of sitting members- Mohan Singh in the Rajya Sabha and Murarilal Singh in the Lok Sabha- before adjourning for the day.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar led the House in expressing condolences over the death of Murarilal Singh, BJP MP from Sarguja, who died yesterday in Raipur at the age of 61.
“Singh relentlessly worked for the welfare of tribals,” Kumar said.
The bandh called by TRS in Telangana region today against a reported proposal by GoM to merge two districts of Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh with the proposed state has hit normal life in the region.
Bus services of the state-run State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) were badly affected as TRS leaders and workers held protests near bus stations at different places in Telangana since morning.
Shops and other commercial establishments did not open at various places in the region.
More than a third of twin births and more than three-quarters of triplets or higher-order births in the US are the result of assisted reproductive technologies, a new finding says.
The researchers from Brown University gathered data on multiple births from 1962 to 1966 before any medical fertility treatments were available and from 1971 through 2011, when data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures were available.