At least 30 furniture shops were gutted by a fire early Thursday morning here, a fire brigade officer said.
The incident occurred in east Delhi’s Trilokpuri area early due to an electrical short circuiting in one of the shops, the officer said.
At least 16 fire tenders were pressed into service and the flames were doused in two hours, he added.
—-IANS
The Muslim victims of Muzaffarnagar riots facing a new crisis. After victimize by the Hindu jats, they are now fighting with the onset of winter. According to an Indian Express report, more than 40 children have already died of cold.
BJP MP from Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja constituency, Murarilal Singh, passed away today at a private hospital here following a brain stroke.
Singh, 62, died at Ramkrishna Care Hospital early this morning due to brain stroke, a doctor attending him said.
Murarilal was admitted to the hospital five days back after he suffered a heart attack, the doctor said.
Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Leader & Chandrayangutta MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi Thursday came under attack by Telangana protestor Near Kottur in Mahboob nagar district
People had to baton charge the protestors who attacked his car, damaging the windowpanes.
Tension prevailed near J P Dargah when the MIM MLA was stopped by protestors, police said.
Raising slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’, they sat on the road to block his car. Some of the protestors pelted stones, damaging the windowpanes. Police had a tough time in controlling the mob. The MLA managed to leave the place under tight security.
In one of his articles, Dr. Bilal Philips (a famous Islamic scholar) narrates a story that involves tragedy, drama, and joy. The story is about an Egyptian teacher whose photograph appeared in a local newspaper. The picture showed his smiling and happy face with his hands stretched out and both thumbs sticking up; his father was kissing him on one cheek and his sister on the other cheek.
Questioning the timing of bringing the Communal Violence Bill, Narendra Modi today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, describing the proposed legislation as “ill-conceived, poorly drafted and a recipe for disaster”.
Terming the bill as an attempt to encroach upon the domain of states, the BJP’s PM candidate sought wider consultations among various stakeholders, such as state governments, political parties, police and security agencies, before making any move on the issue.
A teacher of a government school in Mettupalayam was arrested today for allegedly forcing students into homosexual acts, police said.
Venkatesh (30), a drawing teacher, staying on the first floor of the school allegedly used to force students, staying in an adjacent room into the sexual act, police said.
A student reported the matter to the staff of a nearby Tamil Nadu Electricity Board office, who managed to lock the teacher inside the room and inform the police, who after preliminary inquiry arrested Venkatesh, they said.
One can judge the school’s standard from the students’ discipline. Today world has changed. The rapid development has boosted child’s mental ability. Girls too have a lot of opportunities in every field of life. These views were expressed by Dr. Salma Ahmed Farooqui Associate Prof. Maulana Azad National Urdu University as chief guest at the annual function of Princess Esin Girls High School. She lauded the efforts of school administration, staff and especially Dr. Sultana Nazeerul Hasan and said that due to her interest and hard work the school runs with its standard.
Aamir was asked about the Khan rivalry between Salman, Shah Rukh Khan and himself.
He said: “I can answer for myself. I don`t have any negative thoughts about competition with anyone and I thank my ammi (mother) for it.”
“It`s not in my nature. I understand that there are people who think otherwise, but it`s not in me to look at another person`s work, and think, `How come he did so well? How will I do as well?` I just don`t feel like this.”
Princess Diana’s ornate gold and white gown, designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, fetched a whopping USD 140,000, at an auction house.
Known as the Diaghilev dress, the floor-length strapless number was indeed fit for a princess thanks to its extravagant gold sequins, crystals and pearl embellishments, reported E! online.
It also featured detachable sleeves and a matching headband.
BJP today questioned the basis of UP government’s move to provide pension to those injured in the Muzaffarnagar riots, and demanded that such help be extended to all injured in recent communal clashes in the state.
“BJP has no objection if the government extends financial support to those who suffered injuries in the riots, but the basis on which it should be given must be clear… Several riots took place in the state in the recent past before Muzaffarnagar, and those suffered injuries there should also be helped,” BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
Police have arrested an alleged kingpin of a sensational robbery that took place here in 2012 from Mumbai and recovered around 220 gm of gold ornaments worth Rs 5.5 lakh from him.
Anees Saghir Khan (32) was apprehended two days back for allegedly masterminding the robbery at a jewellery shop here last year.
Police had arrested three out of eight persons, including two Naval personnel, in connection with the heist on October 19, 2012, but failed to recover stolen booty from them.
A Pakistani depressed over debts in Dubai drowned his two daughters and emailed his wife to wish her a better life before killing himself, reports in the emirate said today.
The 40-year-old strangled and drowned the girls, aged two and seven, in the bathroom of the family’s villa on Sunday night before drowning himself in the compound’s swimming pool, the Emarat Al-Youm newspaper said.
The man had been suffering from depression due to mounting personal debts and was having problems with his wife who was attending a concert at the time of the deaths, the daily said.
The top officials of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation know it very well that the Gandhi Bhawan to Moazzam Jahi Market road is a prime location. The stretch is one of the busiest roads of the city. While the state ministers, chief political leaders, judges, IAS, IPS officers besides the officers of various departments pass by this road. Despite that due to the negligence of municipal officers a manhole remained open right in the middle of the road from past one week.
Continuing his campaign to drum up support for a united Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday met the top two political leaders of Tamil Nadu–Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi.
Reddy, a staunch supporter of united Andhra Pradesh, called on the Chief Minister at the Secretariat here in the company of some of his party leaders and held discussions for about 30 minutes while he met Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence later in the day.
Five persons including three women were killed when the car, they were travelling, rammed into a milk tanker in Medak district on Wednesday, police said.
The mishap occurred when a Tata Indica on its way to Hyderabad from Siddipet, rammed into a milk tanker parked on the Rajiv Rahdari Road on the outskirts of Mulug mandal headquarters in Medak at around 12.30pm today.
While four passengers of the car died on the spot, one succumbed on way to hospital.
The Union Cabinet will discuss the Group of Ministers’ (GoM) report on Telangana and the draft bill on the creation of the new state on Thursday.
After an hour-long meeting yesterday, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said that the Cabinet will take up the GoM recommendations on Telangana on Thursday.
According to the GoM proposal, Andhra Pradesh will be bifurcated equally with each state having 21 Lok Sabha seats each, 147 seats each in the Assembly and 45 seats in the Legislative Council.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan wants to take his children — Aryan, Suhana and AbRam — to Peshawar, where his family hails from.
Shah Rukh, who was in the capital to be a part of Agenda Aajtak conclave, did not refuse the request of Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to visit Pakistan and said he would love to go back to the place again where his father took him when he was too young.
Demanding tabling and passing of the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence bill in the proposed winter session of the parliament, Tanzeem-e-Insaaf Greater Hyderabad staged protest dharna at Dharna Chowk Indira Park. Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha former MP presided the dharna and Mr. Ram Narsimha Rao CPI member of state legislature attended as chief guest. President Tanzeem-e-Insaaf Greater Hyderabad Mir Ahmed Ali, general secretary Muneer Patel, S A Mannan member CPI city legislature and others addressed the dharna.
Bollywood actress Kajol feels it is much easier for a man to survive and succeed nowadays than a woman, given the deteriorating state of the fairer sex in our country.
The 39-year-old actress, who has starred in several hits like ‘Baazigar’, ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaenge’, ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, said that men often make it difficult for us women to lead our lives liberally and there is an urgent need to change their mindset.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the government may not be able to announce amnesty programmes such as the Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme (VCES) for the next 20 years due to various factors, including curbs imposed by the Supreme Court.
Addressing an interactive session here with traders and senior Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax officials, the Finance Minister also said, “So far the government has received 9,000 declarations under the VCES, out of which only 107 have been rejected.”
A man was today detained at the N S C Bose International Airport on the suspicion of gold smuggling but was later let off, Customs sources said.
Customs officials posted at the airport got suspicious when they saw 29-year-old Shiddharth Modi coming from Bangok wearing a heavy bangle in his wrist, the sources said.
They detained him and found that the bangle weight around half-a-kg of gold worth around Rs 15 lakh, sources said.
Dozens of activists of several Sikh outfits today left for Chandigarh in a procession to show solidarity with Gurbakash Singh, who has been on a fast for the past 21 days demanding release of five Sikhs from jails.
Police had, however, stopped the activists from leaving Amritsar for over three hours till senior Sikh leaders intervened and persuaded the administration to allow them to go ahead with their march.
Bangladesh’s opposition has threatened to sharpen its ongoing countrywide blockade if the Sheikh Hasina government fails to meet its demands of cancelling the Jan 5 parliamentary polls and withdrawing cases against party leaders.
As the opposition-sponsored 131-hour transport blockade entered its fifth day Wednesday, main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) declared Thursday 5.00 p.m. as the deadline for the government to agree to its demands, bdnews24.com reported.
The head of the joint United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team charged with eliminating chemical weapons in Syria said Wednesday that despite obstacles, the programme to remove and destroy chemical agents at sea was on track.
Sigrid Kaag, chief of the mission, said the weapons would be broken down into various chemical agents and put aboard a ship in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Latakia, before being taken to another as yet unidentified port to be “transloaded” onto, most likely, a US naval ship for disposal.