The spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra community, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, passed away here Friday following a cardiac arrest, an official said.
He was 102 years old. The end came at Saifee Mahal, his residence in Malabar Hill in south Mumbai.
As soon as the news spread, thousands of grieving Dawoodi Bohra community members rushed to Saifee Mahal.
Iran”s top negotiator has said nuclear enrichment can begin within 24 hours if the nation”s leaders take issue with the political process in Washington.
Abbas Araghchi told an Iranian audience that Iran can return again to 20 percent enrichment in less than one day and can convert the nuclear material again. According to the Washington Times, he said that whenever Iran feels the other side is not following through with its commitments, they can move forward with their nuclear programme.
Nuts have gotten a bad rap for being too high in fat, but the truth about them is that nuts, especially walnuts, are a powerhouse of nutrition.
A new research has revealed that immune system plays an important role in the heart’s response to injury, suggesting that embryonic macrophages in the heart promote healing after injury.
Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that two major pools of immune cells are at work in the heart. Both belong to a class of cells known as macrophages. One appears to promote healing, while the other likely drives inflammation, which is detrimental to long-term heart function.
A man named Ravi killed his wife’s lover after catching them together at his residence in Tulasinagar of Borabanda. His wife Swarna had an affair with an autorickshaw driver Sidhu aged 35 years. Ravi beheaded Sidhu then stuffed the body in a gunny bag and threw it on the roadside.
A police patrol found the body, and a manhunt was launched for the killer.
Veteran Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris has reportedly opted to skip the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in order to have knee surgery and extend his late-blooming Test career as far as he can.
After an outstanding summer against England, Harris, who starred throughout the five Ashes Tests at an average of 19.31, is preparing for next month”s three-match series against world No.1 South Africa, where Australia hope to ram home their resurgence as a Test nation.
Sri Lanka has put a hard fight against Pakistani spinners led by Saeed Ajmal to reach 220-5 at close on the opening day of the third Test in Sharjah on Thursday.
The Delhi High Court has restrained media from publishing or televising contents of sexual harassment allegations against former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar.
The court ordered two news channels and a daily to delete offending contents from their reports relating to the case.
The high court has also asked media not to carry the photograph of Justice Swatanter Kumar in any news items.
The restraint order would be effective till February 24, the next date of hearing of the case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered five cases against 13 officials of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for alleged irregularities in the supply of equipments for sewage treatment plants.
Of the 13 officials, eight are executive engineers and five are junior engineers.
A CBI spokesperson said searches were conducted at 21 locations in Delhi, Ghaziabad and Noida before the cases were filed.
DJB officials allegedly conspired with a private firm to cheat the government to the tune of six crore rupees by supplying spurious and cheap items.
Coast Guard officials have handed over 51 Tamil fishermen released from Lankan jails to fisheries officials at Karaikkal on Thursday evening.
Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister Jayapal, Nagapattinam Collector Munusamy and fisheries officials welcomed the fishermen back.
Twenty one fishermen are from Karaikal, 20 from Pudukottai and 10 from Nagapattinam. They were brought back on the Coast Guard ship Vishwasth.
Family members said they were happy to see fishermen returning to their villages in Jagadapattinam, Kottaipattinam and Nagapattinam.
A 16-year-old girl was set on fire after she allegedly resisted a rape attempt in Uttar Pradesh”s Bulandshahr area. The incident was reported from the Pahasu area of Bulandshahr District.
Doctors attending to her at the Aligarh Medical College said that she has suffered 90 per cent burns and may not survive. The accused, a local, allegedly tried to rape the teen at her house. When she resisted, he allegedly poured kerosene over her and set her on fire. Police has filed a case of attempt to rape and attempt to murder against the man who is absconding. (ANI)
Controversial bowlers may reportedly be forced to wear hi-tech sensors during international matches in a bid to boot ‘chuckers’ out of the game.
Almost from the moment cricket sanctioned overarm bowling in 1864, the game has had to tackle allegations of bowlers who illegally throw the ball by straightening a bent arm, although now chuckers could be a thing of the past thanks to a hi-tech project , which is reaching its final phase.
The family of a 23-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who has been missing since January 5, has claimed to have found her body in Bhandup, an eastern suburb of Mumbai.
The National Executive and Council of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will begin a three-day meeting in national capital New Delhi from today.
The BJP top brass is expected to focus on chalking out strategy for winning 272 plus seats in the next general elections. Senior party leaders, including L. K. Advani, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi, besides chief ministers of all BJP-ruled states are expected to attend the meeting.
Shane Warne has been ridiculed on social networking sites for posting a revealing selfie on Twitter.
The 44-year-old former cricketer posed shirtless, showing off his toned and tanned body, with the caption saying that he had fun with the kids and managed to work on the tan too, News.com.au reported.
However, his selfie was mocked on social media with one person reminding him that Twitter was not a dating site. (ANI)
The US’ intelligence agency reportedly collected 200 million text messages a day worldwide as part of its wider mass surveillance programme.
According to classified documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency used the messages to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details.
The data collected by the NSA, under the programme codenamed ‘Dishfire’, had been used by its UK counterpart, the GCHQ, to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in the UK, the Guardian reports.
Tappachabotra police acted against a private financer and took him under custody and seized all his records. Inspector Mohammed Riyazuddin told that on the complaint of a local resident, 70 year old Jagdeesh Prasad Jaiswal was taken into custody. After primary investigations it was revealed that the accused was running finance business illegally. He lent money on huge interest and doubled interest money after 3 months. Not only this he would take possession of bank pass book and ATC cards of his customers. Police is investigating into the matter.
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On Thursday, a 16-year-old girl was set on fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district after she allegedly refuse to give in to a rape attempt.
The girl is a student of Class 9, has suffered 90 per cent burns and is struggling for life at the Aligarh Medical College.
The incident occurred in Pahasu area where the accused, a local, allegedly tried to rape the teen at her house. When she refuse to go along with, he allegedly poured kerosene over her and set her on fire.
A case of attempt to rape and attempt to murder was registered against the man who is absconding.
The Board of Secondary School Education of Andhra Pradesh has announced the detailed timetable of S.S.C. examinations in the state. The Exams are scheduled from March 26 to April 12 and all the papers will commence from 9.30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The last half an hour will be exclusive for objective paper.
The Board reaffirmed that the objective part is to be strictly attempted during last half an hour. To ensure the same, the paper will be issued accordingly to the students (examinees).
A new study has provided important information about transmission of human leishmaniasis, which is a group of infectious diseases that kills more than 100,000 people a year.
Professor Deborah Smith of the Centre for Immunology and Infection at University of York, working with colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Charles University in Prague, has shown that Leishmania parasites reproduce sexually in the wild.
The research is a significant step forward in understanding how leishmaniasis is spread in endemic regions.
Government has extended the date to avail the self employment scheme launched by the state government for minorities and other weaker sections from earlier 21st January to 31 January. However the demand for increase in age limit was not conceded. A review meeting was held with chief secretary Dr. P K Mohanty in which officials of the corporations belonging to Minority welfare BC, SC, ST, Women and physically challenged attended the meeting. It must be recalled that the government by issuing GO Ms 101 on December 31 decided to release Rs. 1708 crore towards self employment scheme.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that the option of holding dialogue with Taliban to resolve issues at hand could prove to be the best strategy and hence should not be ruled out sans testing.
Sharif said that following the death of Pakistani Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack, the dialogue process had come to a standstill, adding that such attacks must not be carried out on Pakistan’s soil as it breached the country’s sovereignty.
The chief medical officer at the Australian Open has defended the tournament’s ‘ extreme heat policy’ following criticism after Wimbledon champion Andy Murray’s older brother Jamie was treated for heatstroke.
The British player, who won his doubles match with Australian John Peers in straight sets against Australian duo Matt Reid and Luke Saville, started to feel the effects of the heat shortly after coming off court and needed two hours of treatment by doctors and physiotherapists.
Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh: Woseribre Senebkay – and the first material proof of a forgotten Abydos Dynasty, ca. 1650-1600 BC.
Working in cooperation with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, a team from the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, discovered king Senebkay’s tomb close to a larger royal tomb, recently identified as belonging to a king Sobekhotep (probably Sobekhotep I, ca. 1780 BC) of the 13th Dynasty.
A US man convicted of murder and rape, who was executed by lethal injection, took more than 15 minutes to die.
The man was administered a combination of drugs that have never been tried before in the United States.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the process is an attempt by states seeking a way to execute prisoners in a constitutionally approved manner that avoids cruel and unusual punishment.
Dennis McGuire, 53, made ‘several loud snorting or snoring sounds’ in the 15 minutes after he was injected the drug at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.