Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday.
Tharoor was rushed to the AIIMS after he complained of chest pain. He was given treatment for a cardiac-related problem.
Media reports had said earlier in the day that Tharoor was shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to a private ward of the hospital.
Australian captain Michael Clarke has reportedly hailed all-rounder James Faulkner as the team’s ‘new Michael Bevan’ following his match-winning inning at the Gabba on Saturday in the second ODI against England on Friday.
Left with No. 11 Clint McKay for company and 57 runs still needed, Faulkner (69 not out) hit 12 from the final over and calmly closed out the match with three consecutive boundaries in the final over to leave England shattered and leading Australia to 301 at the loss of nine wickets and ruling the series 2-0.
The U.N. nuclear agency has estimated that monitoring Iran’s compliance with terms of the nuclear deal reached with six world powers is going to cost six million dollars.
The report said that the IAEA can save minimal costs by reassigning some staff, but most of the funding will have to come from contributions, Fox News reports.
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation governing board is expected to approve the monitoring role in a meeting on Monday.
Goa Police have been directed by a trial court to file a First Information Report (FIR) against both the Congress and the BJP state units for illegally accepting Rs.5 crore each from a foreign-registered mining company, Vedanta.
Vedanta Resources has a significant presence in the Goa mining sector.
The order, passed Friday evening by Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), follows a complaint by a government servant and Right to Information activist Kashinath Shetye, who has said that political parties had erred in accepting the donation from the UK-registered Vedanta Resources.
After confessing their love for each other on reality show “Bigg Boss Saath-7”, actors Kushal Tandon and Gauahar Khan are likely to compete with each other on adventure show “Khatron Ke Khiladi 5”.
The channel is in talks with the actress, who is yet to confirm her participation.
“She has been having multiple talks with the production house and is keen to take up the offer,” said a source from the channel.
The couple met and fell in love during their stay in the last season of “Bigg Boss”, which Gauahar won and walked away with Rs.50 lakh.
Irritated at recurring symptoms? Searching for an online diagnosis on google is not a bad idea before visiting the doctor.
The habit of searching on internet for an online diagnosis before visiting a doctor can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic, says a study.
In the study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has been found to detect infectious diseases such dengue fever and influenza up to two weeks earlier than traditional surveillance methods.
Humans have been walking on earth for over a million years and researchers are now close to figuring out how they do it.
A research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology outline a specific interaction between the ankle, knee, muscles and tendons that improve the understanding of a leg moving forward in a way that maximises motion while using minimal amounts of energy.
“Human walking is extraordinarily complex and we still don’t understand completely how it works,” said Jonathan Hurst, professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State University (OSU) in the US.
The Congress has several reasons, stated and unstated, for refusing to name Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate despite the clamour in his favour by his acolytes.
These include the party’s “tradition”, as Sonia Gandhi reminded the working committee, of letting legislators choose their leader after the election, and the probable disinclination to convert the forthcoming general election into a presidential-style contest between Rahul and Narendra Modi.
They have been Bollywood contemporaries since the 1990s but Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla have only come together now for “Gulaab Gang”. Juhi says Madhuri’s presence in the movie was a big draw for her towards the project.
“I did this film because Madhuri was there. I really did it because (I thought that) with this script, it will be amazing if we do it together. I remember saying to her on the first day that ‘Madhuri, we will make it rock’, and we have,” Juhi said here at the launch of the song “Dheemi gati” from “Gulaab Gang” Friday.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni today ruled out experimenting too much with his settled team in the series against New Zealand but said the five-match rubber should serve as a good exposure to some of his players before the World Cup.
Since Yuvraj Singh is not in the side, there is question mark over the number four spot in the batting order. Dhoni was non-committal about Suresh Raina coming up the order, a role he did not perform with much success against Australia in October.
Soak up some sun not only for your daily vitamin D dose but also to lower blood pressure, says a thrilling research.
Researcher at the Universities of Southampton and Edinburgh in Britain found that sunlight alters levels of nitric oxide (NO) – the small messenger molecule in the skin and blood – reducing blood pressure.
The ubiquitous tulsi in your backyard may be a potent weapon against all kinds of cancer, so believes a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist.
Tulsi or basil has eugenol that helps fight cancer. Now the research team is genetically modifying tulsi in the lab to produce the anti-cancerous compound in abundance.
Junior HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, who died Friday night, had “injury marks” on her body and it is a “case of unnatural, sudden death”, a doctor who conducted the post-mortem said.
“We can say that it is a case of unnatural sudden death. There were certain injury marks on the body but we can’t divulge details at this point,” said Sudhir Gupta, one of the three doctors who performed the autopsy at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
About 1.4 million Indian workers got regularised. 250 Indians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia without valid documents while nearly 140,000 workers have returned due to the kingdom’s ‘Nitaqat’ labour policy, Overseas Indian Affairs Secretary Prem Narain has said.
“Some 250 people are still there. They are stuck because of cases related to incomplete documents,” Narain told IANS in an interview.
The government is talking to the Saudi authorities to get them back, Narain said.
The hunt for a suitable residence for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal finally comes to an end with Urban Development Ministry allotting him a three-bedroom house at Tilak Lane in the Lutyen’s zone.
The Directorate of Estates has allotted a ground floor house C-II/23, at Tilak Lane, a type VI house, to Kejriwal, sources said.
The corner house with three bedrooms, drawing, dining, two servant quarters and a common garage near the Patiala House court is spread across about 1,600 square feet area with a lawn and community park nearby.
Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle have decided to accept retainer contracts with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) after years of refusing it.
The move by Gayle and Bravo represents a turnaround from their decision not to accept retainer contracts in 2010 while a third player who did not sign that same year, Kieron Pollard, is still not on the list of players retained.
Gayle, West Indies captain at the time, refused to sign in 2010 when Ernest Hilaire was WICB’s CEO and was replaced by Darren Sammy later that year.
A senior Pakistani journalist was severely injured after being beaten up by a policeman inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly complex in Peshawar.
Mohammad Naeem, a senior journalist and vice-president of the Khyber Union of Journalists, was badly beaten up Thursday after a policeman exchanged hot words with him regarding car parking inside the assembly jurisdiction, The Nation reported Saturday.
Ecstasy, the ‘rave party’ drug extremely popular among teenagers and young adults, might be useful in treating anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Brain imaging experiments have revealed for the first time how ecstasy produces feelings of euphoria in users.
“We found that ecstasy, or MDMA, caused reduced blood flow in regions of the brain linked to emotion and memory. These effects may be related to the feelings of euphoria that people experience on the drug,” said Robin Carhart-Harris from the department of medicine at Imperial College London.
The Taliban struck at a restaurant in Afghan capital Kabul and killed at least 21 people, including 13 foreigners and a representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday, the police chief said Saturday.
“A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, were killed in Friday’s attack on the Lebanese Restaurant in Kabul,” police chief general Mohammad Zahir told the media.
Zahir said four foreign women and an Afghan woman were among those killed in the attack. At least six people were injured, Xinhua reported.
Trinamool Congress has nominated Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty as one of the five Rajya Sabha members to be elected from West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Saturday.
“In our state, five Rajya Sabha members will be elected this time. One of these seats will be given to Mithun Chakraborty from All India Trinamool Congress. Chakraborty is a well-known film personality. He has devoted his life to the cause of cultural and social activities with great success,” Banerjee said in her official Facebook page.
The Indo-Pak Express of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi recorded a come-from-behind three-set victory to advance to the third round at the Australian Open here Saturday.
The seventh seeds beat unseeded British pair of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The first set was a close fought affair with both teams trading 15 winners. But the Indo-Pak team failed to take their chances and gave away two break points to their opponents who converted one.
Maria Sharapova defeated 25th-seeded Frenchwoman Alize Cornet 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) in the third round at the Australian Open here Saturday.
The 2008 champion won 70 percent of her first-serve points and outscored Cornet 35-11 in winners, reports Xinhua.
The Russian raced through the first set in 32 minutes. Cornet forced a tiebreak while trailing 3-5 in the second set but was still unable to force a deciding set.
Minority students should approach government departments in a planned manner to assert their rights and for redressal of their problems. AP Minority Commission is very serious in accomplishing its goals. These views were expressed by chairman AP Minorities commission Mr. Abid Rasool Khan at a special meeting of Science Fair Academy held at MHJ Hall, Siasat premises. He asserted that school managements can avail laboratories , libraries and other facilities. He announced to provide all such facilities by the Minority Commission. He offered complete support to promote Science Fair.
A great grandmother hired a stripper to celebrate the occasion of her 100th birthday.
Doris Deahardie rode in a limousine ride to her party at the Sun Inn, North Wheatley, on Sunday night, the Daily Star reported.
She even brought her own bottle of baby oil to ensure that she enjoyed the bash.
Deahardie currently resides with her son Barry and his wife Sharon and had originally planned on going on a helicopter ride.
She got what she asked for, as the stripper bared all for the occasion.
Deahardie even ate a banana suggestively during the show. (ANI)
Mohammed Ayub Ansari Chairman Minority Congress Rangareddy district has appointed Syed Naseeruddin senior Congress leader and former cooperative member as president Minority Congress Shamsabad mandal.
Minister Prasad Kumar handed over the appointment letter to Syed Naseeruddin and hoped that the later would work for the development of Congress.
On the occasion Syed Naseeruddin thanked Minister Prasad Kumar, Mohammed Ayub Ansari Chairman Minority Congress Rangareddy district and Venu Goud.
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