Union Minister Salman Khurshid, who stoked a controversy by calling Narendra Modi “impotent”, today insisted that he did nothing wrong as there was no other appropriate word to describe him in the context of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Slamming Modi for his handling of the riots, Khurshid said he did not find any other word to expressed his anguish better and asked the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate to admit the “truth” about the riots.
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Wednesday said it is looking for options for an alliance and the “option of BJP is open”.
“We are looking for alternate alliance partners as there is a deadlock with existing allies,” LJP leader Chirag Paswan said after a meeting of the party’s parliamentary board.
LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan, Chirag’s father, added: “We have kept the option of BJP open.”
Ramvilas Paswan said his party has had grievances with the Lalu-Prasad led Rashtriya Janata Dal since long, and the talks for an alliance with the Congress did not show much progress.
Woman eve teased, three family members injured Muzaffarnagar: Three persons of a family were injured in an attack when they tried to oppose an eve teasing bid of a woman member of the family, police said Wednesday.
The victim had gone to fetch water from a public hand pump yesterday when some persons eve teased her. When the victim’s family opposed them, the miscreants attacked the victim and the family members following which they were injured, police said.
The Supreme Court today issued non bailable arrest warrant against Sahara Chief Subrata Roy for his failure to appear before it in connection with the case in which his two companies have been directed to refund Rs 20,000 crore to investors.
“We had already declined yesterday Roy’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance. He has not appeared even today and we are issuing non bailable warrant returnable for March 4,” a bench comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar said.
Current virus detection systems look for viruses that are present on the Internet or computers. But this contagious airborne virus can badly hit less-protected open access WiFi networks available in coffee shops or airports.
In a first, researchers at University of Liverpool in Britain have demonstrated that WiFi networks can be infected with a virus that can move through densely populated areas as efficiently as the common cold spreads among humans.
The team designed and simulated an attack on Belfast and London in a lab setting and found a virus called ‘Chameleon’.
Seven Navy personnel were today injured and two officers unaccounted for in a mishap on board Russian-origin Kilo Class submarine INS Sindhuratna, 80 kms off the Mumbai coast.
Dense smoke filled the cabin of the submarine in the morning when Commodore Commanding Submarine (COMCOS), Western Command, was carrying out an inspection before it was to be cleared for operational duties, a Navy officer said.
AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh expressed confidence that both the Telugu States – Telangana and Andhra Pradesh would soon emerge as most prosperous States in the country.
Speaking to media persons after AICC President Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with Seemandhra leaders here on Wednesday, Digvijay Singh said that both the States would witnessed comprehensive development. “Both the States will be competing with each other in healthy manner and with the spirit of brotherhood while complimenting each other,” he said.
India skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bowl against Bangladesh in their first match of the Asia Cup at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium here today.
Team:
India: Virat Kohli (Capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Ambati Rayadu, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Varun Aaron, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (Capt & wk), Shamsur Rahman, Anamul Haque, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Naeem Islam, Ziaur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Rubel Hossain.
–PTI
Union Minister Salman Khurshid, who stoked a controversy by calling Narendra Modi “impotent”, today insisted that he did nothing wrong as there was no other appropriate word to describe him in the context of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Slamming Modi for his handling of the riots, Khurshid said he did not find any other word to expressed his anguish better and asked the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate to admit the “truth” about the riots.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a non bailable arrest warrant against Sahara chief Subrata Roy for his failure to appear before it in connection with the case in which his two companies have been directed to refund Rs 20,000 crore to investors.
“We had already declined yesterday Roy’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance. He has not appeared even today and we are issuing non bailable warrant returnable for March 4,” a bench comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar said.
Support for gay marriage has surged in the United States in the decade since it first became legal in Massachusetts, with just over half of Americans now supporting the idea, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
The survey on attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people comes as US lawmakers and courts are increasingly allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Some 53 percent of the 4,509 Americans surveyed by the Public Religion Research Institute said they supported gay marriage, up from 32 percent in 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalise it.
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he would rather make women travelling in a bus safe than have India being a superpower.
“Big statements are made about India being a superpower. What superpower? I will rather make a woman safe in a bus than (India) being a superpower,” Gandhi said in an interaction with students at the Don Bosco University here.
“Are you comfortable in a bus? Are you treated well on the streets when you walk?” he asked girl students.
At a time when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is making an effort to expand its base beyond Delhi, the apex body of trade federations are determined not invite AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to its convention, citing the “absence of a national business policy” in the party.
Smartphone sales in the country grew almost three-fold to over 44 million in 2013, buoyed by a strong uptake of affordable devices made by local firms such as Micromax and Karbonn, research firm IDC said today. Smartphone shipments stood at 16.2 million in 2012.
“India was one of the fastest-growing countries worldwide in terms of smartphone adoption in 2013. This surge has been mainly powered by homegrown vendors, which have shown a tremendous and consistent growth over the past four quarters of 2013,” IDC said in a statement.
Eliminating maternal mortality, which is defined as the deaths related to pregnancy, would result in a gain of over a half year in life expectancy worldwide, according to a new study.
Over the twentieth century, women’s life expectancy in developed countries increased by 0.5 years due to a near elimination of maternal mortality.
In sub-Saharan African countries, the possible achievable gains from eliminating maternal mortality fluctuate between 0.24 and 1.47 years, or 6 percent and 44 percent of potential gains.
As many as three chain snatching incidents were reported on Tuesday during 45 minutes time wherein a gang of unidentified thieves made three women the target of their crime at different places.
In the first case, two unidentified thieves riding black scooter snatched one Bharti’s chain weighing 4 tolas at Tadbun crossroad at 10 am.
The government’s upper hand in creating a paperless environment by digitising records across departments including minorities’s welfare department has met with dogmatic confrontation, with qazis and Muslim clergy locking horns over the move.
As per the sources, officials of the Department of Information Technology, Electronics and Communications had approached the MWD early in January and expressed their intention of ensuring transparency by digitising records of the department’s agencies.
Soft drink giant Coca-Cola’s claim that has been maintaining its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) around its bottling plant in Kala Dera, Rajasthan, have been found to be lacking in merit, according to a recent study carried out by the University of Michigan.
The study, which has been carried out by Dr. Aneel Karnani, an Associate Professor with the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, found that results indicate that Coca Cola still needs to develop regulatory regimes with appropriate incentives and also possess the ability to enforce sanctions.
A new research has found that massive elliptical galaxies in the nearby Universe contain plenty of cold gas, but still they fail to produce new stars as jets from the central supermassive black hole heat or stir up the gas.
Norbert Werner from Stanford University in California, USA, who led the study, said that they looked at eight giant elliptical galaxies that nobody had looked at with Herschel before and they were delighted to find that, contrary to previous belief, six out of eight abound with cold gas.
Spanish astronomers have said that a meteorite with the mass of a small car had crashed into the Moon last September.
The impact, the biggest seen to date, produced a bright flash and would have been easy to spot from the Earth.
On 11 September 2013, Prof. Jose M. Madiedo was operating two telescopes in the south of Spain that were searching for these impact events.
At 2007 GMT he witnessed an unusually long and bright flash in Mare Nubium, an ancient lava-filled basin with a darker appearance than its surroundings.
The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Monday, which is said to be biggest of 2014.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event in multiple wavelengths.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, appearing as giant flashes of light in the SDO images.
Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however-when intense enough-they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
Why someone in a bad mood chooses to eat junk food and someone in a good mood goes for healthier food choices?
Researchers have found an answer to this mood swing by mixing two theories of affective regulation – how people react to their moods and emotions – and temporal construal – the perspective of time – to explain food choice.
Two Indian-origin men are among this year’s prestigious Heinz Awards recipients in the US.
Abraham Verghese, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, and Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist, of Albuquerque in the US state of New Mexico will be honoured in Pittsburgh April 3, the foundation announced on its website Tuesday.
The five recipients will receive a cash award of $250,000 each as well as a medallion inscribed with an image of late US senator John Heinz.
Workplaces could be considered one of the best reasons for diet failures, new research says.
A study conducted by Fruyo, the new fruit-based snack from the makers of Total Greek Yoghurt, reveal that over a quarter of diets fail because of unhealthy snacking at the workplace, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Unhealthy snacks reign supreme in the office, with the top three items being cookies, chocolate and crisps. Meanwhile, healthy choices, such as fresh fruit, low fat yoghurt and crackers lag behind.
Volcanic gases from early 21st century eruptions – that form mirror-like particles in the air – may have slowed down global warming, shows research.
“In the last decade, the amount of volcanic aerosol in the stratosphere has increased, so more sunlight is being reflected back into space,” said lead author Benjamin Santer, climate scientist at Laurence Livermore National Laboratory – a research and development centre founded by University of California.