Actor Charlie Sheen is annoyed that everyone keeps referring to his future wife Brett Rossi as a porn star.
“It’s absolutely making Charlie crazy that the media keeps referring to Brett as a porn star, because she no longer is doing that. She recently graduated from nursing school,” radaronline.com quoted a source as saying.
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Mercy giving. We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whoever Allah allows to go astray, none can guide them aright. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, Alone, and that Muhammad (SAWS) is His Servant and Messenger. To begin …
Part I:
Al-Fudayl ibn Iyadh, rahimahullah (may Allah have mercy upon him), once sat with a senior and asked him, “How old are you?”
The man replied:
“60 years old.”
New Zealand Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman Tuesday pledged his country’s continued commitment to NATO operations in Afghanistan.
Defence ministers of NATO-ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) states would discuss the military drawdown in Afghanistan and planning for NATO’s post-2014 training, advice and assistance mission, Xinhua quoted Coleman as saying.
“New Zealand remains committed to supporting the final stages of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. It is important to secure the gains made by the international community over the last decade,” he said.
The Italian new government won the vote of confidence in the Senate early Tuesday, after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pledged to work for radical and immediate changes to revive the country’s recession-gripped economy.
The Renzi government, which was sworn in Saturday, won the support of the upper house by a vote of 169 to 139, reported Xinhua.
A similar vote is set to take place in the lower chamber Tuesday.
The national capital woke up to a pleasant Tuesday morning. The Met Office has forecast a cloudy day.
According to a Northern Railway official, 12 trains coming to Delhi were running late due to fog in and around the national capital.
“The day will be partly cloudy. Moderate fog was witnessed early morning,” said an India Meteorological Department official.
The visibility at 8.30 a.m. was 400 metres.
Tuesday’s minimum temperature was recorded two notches below average at 10.3 degrees Celsius.
Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 95 percent.
West Indies spinner Nikita Miller said the return of spin legend and coach Saqlain Mushtaq to the regional setup will help inspire their bowlers in the limited-overs series against England, starting Friday.
The former Pakistan player was brought in to help West Indies’ spinners after a clinic at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) High Performance Centre (HPC) last year, reported CMC.
Mushtaq’s role has been to strengthen the West Indies spin bowling department and Miller said his advice will be crucial in the series against the Englishmen.
Journalists and the opposition parties in Goa have demanded a public apology from Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for what they said was an attempt by him to humiliate media and browbeat it into submission.
The Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ) in a statement issued late Monday slammed Parrikar’s questioning the educational qualification and financial worth of reporters at a public function Sunday evening.
What if scientists can decipher what happens to the virus before it gets inside cells? It can surely help them devise new methods to prevent infection altogether.
Researchers at New Jersey-based Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented 3D look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell.
The technique could help scientists learn more about how to deliver drugs via nanoparticles – which are about the same size as viruses – as well as how to prevent viral infection from occurring.
South Carolina’s Indian American governor Nikki Haley has blasted the Obama administration’s plan to make cuts to the reserve military force while reducing the size of the army to its pre-World War II size.
“It really is a slap in the face to anyone who has served over this past decade multiple times and left their life to do this,” said the Republican governor, whose husband is in the National Guard and recently returned from a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, Monday.
A police officer, who was suspended yesterday after a verbal spat with a local court judge,allegedly shot dead his wife and left two of his children injured before committing suicide by shooting himself in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh today.
Jagdalpur City Superintendent of Police Devnarayan Patel (40) shot himself with his service weapon after gunning down his wife Pratima (35) at his official residence in Shaket Colony in Jagdalpur in the wee hours.
Son Aryan (6) and daughter Puja (11), who were also shot at, have been hospitalised, Inspector General of Police
The ancient Chinese medical art of acupuncture holds promise for treating a life-threatening disease that often develops in hospital intensive care units springs from infection and inflammation.
“Sepsis is the major cause of death in the hospital. But, in many cases, patients do not die because of the infection. They die because of the inflammatory disorder they develop after the infection. So we hoped to study how to control the inflammatory disorder,” explained Luis Ulloa, an immunologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
A government publication in Uttar Pradesh now enlists parks and monuments built by former chief minister Mayawati as new visiting attractions in the state capital, leaving the Akhilesh Yadav government red-faced.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) had referred to Mayawati built parks and monuments as a “colossal wastage of public money”, and now seems to have a change of heart, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui said in the upper house Monday.
After stoking a controversy by threatening to “crush” the electronic media, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said he was speaking about the social media and not about journalism.
“I was referring to social media and the violence incited against students from the Northeast in Hyderabad and Karnataka. My comments were not about journalism”, he said here last night.
Shinde had on Sunday evening threatened to “crush” the electronic media, alleging a section of it was unnecessarily provoking the Congress by indulging in “false propaganda” against it.
The Supreme court Tuesday referred to the constitiution bench a plea for voluntary passive euthanasia in the case of a person who is terminally ill and in medical opinion there is little hope of revival and recovery.
Referring the matter to the constitution bench, the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said an earlier judgement of the court on voluntary passive euthanasia in Aruna Shanbaug’s case did lay down a certain procedure but it was not clear.
With a faction of his MLAs parting ways with the RJD, Lalu Prasad today rushed to Patna to bring his house in order and blamed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for hatching a “conspiracy” to break his party.
“Nitish hatched a conspiracy with the speaker to break my party. But, it went wrong and the whole country has seen the conspiracy,” Prasad told reporters at Patna airport.
RJD saw a major upheaval yesterday with 13 out of its 22 MLAs quitting the party. But six of them later returned and denied walking away from the party.
Now that the formation of Telangana has reached the guaranteed phase, it is responsibility of the political parties of Telangana region o pay attention towards fulfilling the promises made by them during Telangana movements. Former principal Arts College, Dean Osmania University Prof. P L Vishveshwar Rao told this.
He told that Telangana Muslims were worst affected by the united Andhra state as a result Muslims are less than 1 pc in government jobs. So Muslims need at least 12 pc reservations in all fields.
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Ahead of Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday received a shot in the arm when Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Monday lauded her work for the minorities in West Bengal, and said she would make a better prime minister for secular India than others.
Rubbishing rumours about a covert pact between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress, as alleged by the Congress and Left parties, Bhukari hoped that Banerjee would not go for a post-poll alliance with the BJP.
Centre for Urdu Language, Literature & Culture (CULLC) Maulana Azad National Urdu University, is organising a 2-day National Seminar entitled ‘Sardar Jaffery: Yesterday and Today’ on February 25 and 26. The seminar will be inaugurated at 10 am on 25th February.
A police officer, who was suspended yesterday after a verbal spat with a local court judge, allegedly shot dead his wife and left two of his children injured before committing suicide by shooting himself in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh today.
Jagdalpur City Superintendent of Police Devnarayan Patel (40) shot himself with his service weapon after gunning down his wife Pratima (35) at his official residence in Shaket Colony in Jagdalpur in the wee hours.
A 32-year old Indian Air Force pilot attached to Sulur airbase near here allegedly committed suicide in the Officer’s Mess following reported quarrel with his wife whom he married just three months ago, police said today. DH graphic for representation only
A 32-year old Indian Air Force pilot attached to Sulur airbase near here allegedly committed suicide in the Officer’s Mess following reported quarrel with his wife whom he married just three months ago, police said today.
The ‘Bidai’ scheme launched by the State government for providing financial assistance to poor minorities to meet their wedding expenses, is yet to gain publicity as only a few beneficiaries have got themselves registered for the scheme in Bijapur.
The officials in the Department of Minority Welfare admit that owing to inadequate publicity, people of minority community are not coming forward to make use of the benefit.
A one-day workshop on Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)– a Ministry of Labour and Employment’s one-year-old health initiative for the BPL families, in a bid to educate Panchayat Development Officers, Grama Panchayat Secretaries and Asha Workers, was conducted here by the District Administration’s Labour Department in association with The New India Assurance Company, Mysore, on February 22.
The workshop was an attempt to enlighten the workers on the enrolment process of the schemes to be started from the next week in the district.
Popular messaging service WhatsApp is reportedly set to add voice calls to iOS and Android platforms in the second quarter of this year.
The now 465-million-user strong service was acquired by social networking giant Facebook this week for a whopping 19 billion dollars.
According to The Verge, the addition of voice calls to its service would only enhance the app’s popularity for being an inexpensive messaging service.
The voice calls would be free of charges for a limited time, but would eventually be priced the usual 0.99 dollars per year subscription.
President Barack Obama has told US state governors at a White House meeting that he expects to decide on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in the next couple of months, two Republican governors said.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, who chairs the National Governors Association and supports Keystone, said she asked Obama about the pipeline at a meeting with about 40 governors.
Obama yesterday told her he expects a decision “in the next couple of months,” but didn’t offer a specific timetable, Fallin and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said.
Actress Hilary Duff was spotted holding hands with mystery hunk at Miley Cyrus concert last weekend.
Duff, 26, who announced her split from husband Comrie in January, walked into the Bangerz concert at the Staples Center arm-in-arm with a dark haired man, reported Radar online.
After the concert, Duff and her new man looked even closer as they left the concert holding hands.
Both were casually dressed as Duff wore a low-cut black top, leather jacket, jeans and statement necklace while the unidentified man looked relaxed in a tank top with a denim shirt over it and white jeans.