Police vice units trained to deal with sex trafficking and prostitution have reportedly made nearly 200 arrests in New York in operations leading up to the Super Bowl, which will take place nearby in New Jersey.
: A top US intelligence official has said that there is a ”substantial potential” for security threats against the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but the key concern for an attack centers on locations outside the main event areas.
Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene has become the sixth-highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket with his unbeaten double-century on the third day of the first Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka. Jayawardene”s 203 and Kithuruwan Vithanage”s maiden century (103) helped Sri Lanka declare their first innings at 6-730 on the third day, which was the highest score by any team against Bangladesh.
Australian pace sensation Mitchell Johnson has reportedly been included among the 31 players who have attracted the highest base price of around 320,000 US dollars for next month”s Indian Premier League (IPL) auction.
New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson has reportedly set a low base price at just under 200,000 dollars for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, where he is expected to be one of the most sought-after players.
After his world-record 36-ball century against West Indies on January 1 and his batting assaults in the first two ODIs against India, Anderson, who is one of the 18 New Zealanders to put his name forward for the auction on February 12 and 13, would have impressed plenty of team owners and coaches.
Scientists in Japan have found a remarkably easy way to make cells that can grow into any tissue in the body.
The method if it can be repeated in human tissue, may lead to cheap and simple methods to make patient-matched stem cells that could repair damaged or diseased organs.
In a series of elegant experiments, researchers showed that cells plucked from mice could be turned into all-powerful master cells by immersing them in a mildly acidic solution for half an hour.
NASA is planning missions to show how to make oxygen on Mars and water on the moon.
Previously, studies have showed that the viable option for future human expeditions to Mars – as well as Mars sample return missions – require “in-situ resource utilization,” or IRSU, to cut the costs of launching everything from Earth.
Lunar geologist Paul Spudis, with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, told Discovery News, said that doing ISRU gives leverage as the fraction of intelligent-to-dumb mass on your spacecraft is changed in favor of the intelligent part.
U.S. intelligence has said North Korea is advancing its nuclear weapons programme following threat to do so. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the North has expanded the size of its uranium enrichment facility at its Nyongbyon nuclear complex. According to CBS News, Clapper also said the country has restarted a plutonium reactor that was shut down in 2007. Clapper”s written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee coincides with the assessments of think tanks that monitor North”s nuclear programme using commercial satellite imagery.
Many Bru families from Mizoram have taken shelter in four refugee camps in north Tripura’s Dhancherra area. The recent influx of bru refugees is the result of conflict created by militant outfits between Reang and Mizo tribes.
Request for mobile number portability (MNP) in November 2013 went up by 2.09 million, official data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said Thursday.
MNP requests increased from 104.79 million subscribers at the end of October 2013 to 106.87 million at the end of November 2013, it said.
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 904.56 million at the end of October 2013 to 910.14 million at the end of November 2013 — thereby showing a monthly growth of 0.62 percent.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said e was not surprised by Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley”s reaction to his “back of a postage stamp” comment on BJP prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Rather, he said, he had expected Jaitley to respond.
In a statement released today, Chidambaram said: “I expected Shri Arun Jaitley to rush to the defence of Shri Narendra Modi, and he has not disappointed me. He has responded to my lighter-vein comment on “back of a postage stamp” and I enjoy such exchanges.”
If Rahul Gandhi is to be believed, the Congress government tried to stop the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 that left hundreds dead in just three days in Delhi. This is the first time anyone has made this remarkable claim.
But if this is indeed true, the victims who deposed against Congress leaders and Gandhi family loyalists like Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and H.K.L. Bhagat must have seen the ghosts of these leaders instigating mobs against the Sikhs.
The protesting contractual employees of the Delhi government must return to their jobs or face the consequences, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Thursday.
“I met them (protesters) personally and assured them that I will resolve the issue soon. I’ve asked four months time from them but they want me to take action within 24 hours which is not possible,” Kejriwal said, presenting his one-month-old government’s report card.
“They must return to their jobs immediately and those who do not comply will not be considered later during the regularisation process,” he said.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) was constituted Thursday after a go-ahead from Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the party announced here.
AICC General secretary in-charge Madhusudan Mistry formed the state Pradesh Congress Committee which has 32 vice-presidents, one treasurer, 61 general secretaries, 13 organisational secretaries, 13 secretaries and 45 members in the state executive.
Two people have also been made permanent invitees to the Uttar Pradesh PCC.
The 17th century monument of love, Taj Mahal, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is facing deterioration and damage by industrial gas due to several units mushrooming around the Agra tourist attraction, according to some manufacturers’ associations.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed ”deep concern” about a mentally ill Brit sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy. In reply to a question about Mohammad Asghar”s case in parliament, Cameron said that he was extremely serious about the case and making things clear at every level. According to Dawn News, Mohammad Asghar, from Edinburgh, has been awarded the death sentence for sending letters to officials claiming to be the Prophet Mohammed.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif”s announcement to formulate a four-member committee to hold peace talks with the Pakistan Taliban has attracted mixed reactions from the major political parties in Pakistan. Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said if the government wanted to end terrorism through peace talks, then the opposition would extend its full cooperation and support. He added that the opposition would never try politicising the issue of terrorism.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill is likely to be taken up by the Cabinet on Friday. “The Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill will most probably be taken up by cabinet tomorrow, and it should be passed by the assembly in 10 to 15 days,” he told media here today. He also asserted that AAP volunteers have been visiting various government departments to check corruption, and added that corruption has considerably reduced. “Corruption is very important for us. We had taken out a scheme, saying ”if anyone bribes you, please do inform us”.
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Barkha Shukla Singh on Thursday said Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung would look into the matter following the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) demand to remove her from her current post. She also added that the Delhi Commission for Women Act 1994 does not mention that a political person cannot become chairperson or a member of any such organization. “I met the L-G today, and told him about the work we have done. He said he would look into this matter.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday said corruption has come down in Delhi since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to power a month ago.
Kejriwal said in this one month, the government had been successful in reducing corruption and he promised to unveil a Jan Lokpal bill to combat graft.
“An interesting campaign was launched to tackle corruption,” he said, in an obvious reference to the helpline his government has provided to report bribery demands.
The woman journalist who has accused Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal of sexual assault has officially complained about a slanderous email aimed at maligning her image, Goa Police said Thursday.
The complaint was addressed to the superintendent of police (Crime Branch), Deputy Inspector General O.P. Mishra told reporters at the police headquarters here.
A Goa Police team was on its way back from Mumbai after officially recording the woman’s statement, he said.
Russell Crowe’s upcoming biblical drama ‘ Noah’s new trailer will be released during the Super Bowl.
The highly anticipated Darren Aronofsky -helmed flick, which also stars Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Watson, has spent around 130 million dollars on visual spectacles and monumental cinematic moments, Contactmusic reported.
The first trailer of the film, which will hit the floors on 28th March 2014, was released in November 2013 but the one that will be shown during the game will feature new scenes. (ANI)
The Indian censor board has for the very first time passed female frontal nudity and shots of bare male posteriors for Steve McQueen-helmed ‘ 12 Years a Slave’ for Indian audiences.
Initially, the movie, which had bagged the Golden Globe for Best Picture Drama and has also earned nine Oscar nominations, faced six cuts, but a revising committee gave it a thumbs up without any editing, PVR Pictures reported.
It was very pleasing to see the Tipu Sultan’s tableau in Republic Day parade at the national capital, New Delhi. The decision to propose Tipu’s theme, along with three other themes representing Karnataka’s history and culture, could be an honest move by the present government. But in the wake of Lok Sabha elections it does send unusual messages to the educated mass.
According to police sources, a 26-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by her husband and brother-in-law in Sahibabad area of the district. Based on a complaint filed by the woman, a case was booked today at Sahibabad police station.
According to police, the accused, along with their two more brothers, reached the house late last night. While the duo took turn to rape the woman, two others tied her sister who had come to meet her.