Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has defended the level of violence in his new movie “Sabotage”, saying that video games are worse.
In the film, the former politician plays a boss within the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), whose members meet an unpleasant end after they rob a drug cartel safe house.
The 66-year-old told The Telegraph that video games are more violent than the movie, reports entertainmentwise.com.
The Kabul police rescued all foreigners trapped inside a guest house attacked by the Taliban Friday, an interior ministry official said, adding all five attackers were killed in the counter-attack.
“A teenaged girl was killed in first blast on the street and one security guard was wounded in the incident,” Deputy Interior Minister in charge of security Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said in his Twitter account.
Odisha capital Bhubaneswar Friday recorded 41.3 degrees Celsius, the season’s highest so far in the state, while seven other towns recorded maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius and above, an official said.
Bhubaneswar’s temperature was the season’s highest so far, an official of the Bhubaneswar meteorological centre told IANS.
Seven other towns where mercury soared to 40 degrees and above are Chandbali (40.1), Angul (40.3), Baripada (40.2), Jharsuguda (40), Bhawanipatna (40.5), Bolangir (40.5) and Titlagarh (41).
The AAP Friday welcomed the Delhi High Court’s judgment asking the central government and the Election Commission to take appropriate action against the Congress and the BJP for taking foreign funds in violation of law.
“The landmark judgment by the Delhi High Court holding the Congress and the BJP guilty of taking foreign funds in violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act has exposed the deep rooted nexus between these parties and corporate houses,” said a statement from the Aam Aadmi Party.
Several workers of a factory here and policemen were injured Friday in a clash over the death of an employee while on duty, police said.
Sunil Pusahkar, a 34-year-old employee of the tailoring division at Orient Craft company here at Sector 18, died after receiving an electric shock, while Sunita and Manju, two women workers, fell unconscious.
Outraged over the incidents, workers came out of the factory and launched a protest.
Police were called in, and fired tear gas shells to control the situation, an official said.
Sunil, who died on the spot, hailed from Kanpur.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, who has been unwell for the past several days, was Friday admitted in AIIMS and is expected to undergo a surgery tomorrow.
“He has been admitted and is in a private ward at AIIMS. He will have to undergo a surgery tomorrow,” a source close to the minister said.
The source added doctors of the nephrology department of the institute were attending to the minister’s ailment.
Tewari, 48, has been unwell for quite some time and had undergone hospitalisation at a south Delhi hospital only a few days earlier.
Against the backdrop of unhappiness among some senior leaders in BJP in the wake of controversy over denial of ticket to Jaswant Singh, party leader Yashwant Sinha Friday said things could have been done more “gracefully” and “smoothly” to look “more natural”.
“It could have been done more gracefully, I agree with you. I am not pointing to any individual. I am saying the whole system within the party could have been managed in such a way that the whole thing would have looked more natural and smoother,” he said when asked on the row.
Centre for Urdu Language, Literature & Culture (CULLC), Maulana Azad National Urdu University is going to organise Maharaja Sir Kishan Prasad Memorial lecture on April 4, at 3 pm. According to Prof. Khaled Sayeed Director Centre, Prof. Mohammed Miyan, Vice Chancellor of the university will preside over.
Researcher of the Deccan Dawood Ashraf will deliver memorial lecture entitled “Maharaja Sir Kishan Prasad: personality and his Urdu services”. Maharaja Kishan Prasad had a significant role in promotion of national integration and reinforcement of education and culture in Hyderabad.
Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea challenging the Lt Governor’s nursery admission guidelines, which clubs disabled children with those from economically weaker groups (EWS) and seeking three per cent quota for kids with special needs.
A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and RV Easwar while reserving its verdict also directed Delhi government to submit fresh data regarding the number of seats at primary and pre-primary level in all the schools, how many of these can accommodate children with special needs, etc.
Deccan Wakf Properties Protection Society will hold an all party meeting after Namaz-e-Magrib at Riasat Nagar Market near Nabi Cafe. Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, TRS MLC will preside over the meeting. Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha, former MP, Maulana Hamid Mohammed Khan, President of Movement for Peace and Justice and Mr. Urooj Ali will be the guests of honour. Mr. Osman bin Mohammed Al Hajri, President of the Society, Mr. Mohammed Yousuf, Secretary of TRS, Mr. Inayath Ali Bakhri, General Secretary of TRS will address the gathering. Ms. Jasween Jairath will also address the gathering.
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Many of the ‘benami’ flats (the flats held in the name of a proxy buyer) in the scam-tainted Adarsh Society here were purchased under the quotas for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and ‘weaker sections of the society’, the CBI has said in its supplementary chargesheet.
“In as many as 22 cases…Flats are allotted to benami-dars under the SC/ST quota,” said the chargesheet, filed Thursday before the Special CBI Judge S C Dighe here.
Rapper-actor Nick Cannon says he didn’t sleep with his lady love Mariah Carey until their wedding night.
The “Hero” hitmaker made her spouse “wait” until they exchanged vows in April 2008, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Asked when they first slept together, Cannon said: “On our wedding night, honeymoon style, in the Bahamas. That’s a real woman there, make you wait, till you got married.
“Seriously, 100 per cent. We didn’t (know if it would be good). The first time I made love to my wife was on our wedding night.”
The couple has two-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.
About 150 acres of woodland were devastated before dawn in Puerto Rico by a fire in Adjuntas Forest in the central part of the island, authorities said.
Chief of the Puerto Rican fire department, Angel Crespo, said the blaze damaged some 40 percent of the forest and that National Guard helicopters were used to put out the flames.
Though the cause of the fire has not been confirmed, Crespo said that “in all probability” it was deliberately set.
Manjlis Tameer-e-Millath is holding a symposium on “Arrest of Muslims in Terrorist charges” today at 10:30 a.m. at Gulshan-e-Khaleel, Masab Tank. Mr. Abdur Raheem Quraishi, President of Tameer-e-Millath will preside over the symposium. Maulana Jaffar Pasha, Mr. Aziz Pasha, former MP, Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Engineer, Mr. Omer Ahmed Shafeeq will address the symposium.
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Actress Cameron Diaz finds women beautiful and believes that all women have been sexually attracted to another woman at least once.
The 41-year-old, who has dated stars like Jared Leto and Justin Timberlake in the past, believes it’s “natural” to appreciate the “beauty” of other women and to feel some form of sexual desire towards them, reports femalefirst.co.uk
She said: “I think women are beautiful – absolutely beautiful.
Deccan Wakf Protection Society conducted the public meeting at Masjid Tek, Nampally to formulate a common action plan for the protection of Wakf properties in Telangana region. Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha, former CPI member of Rajya Sabha Presided over the meeting. He told that many Wakf Properties have been damaged because of the silence of the Muslim Community and to trust blindly the so called Muslim Leaders. Mr. Shaik Mohammed Iqbal, IPS, Special Officer of A.P. State Wakf Board is taking necessary action against the persons responsible for damaging wakf properties. Mr.
Executive Council of Osmania University approved a budget of Rs. 424 crore for the financial year 2014-15. This is Rs. 95 crore more than the previous budget. This has been proposed to undertake developmental works. Prof. S.Satyanarayana, VC of OU told this yesterday. He gave the details of the educational activities of last year and the developmental works to be taken up next year. Present on this occasion were the members of academic senate and other officials besides the members of the Executive Council.
Mr. CR Kamalanathan, Chairman of the Committee for bifurcation of employees will meet the representatives of various employees associations today in the conference hall of Finance Department in Secretariat. All the employees of Telangana and Andhra who want to make any representation, may register their names in SR room number 203, second floor, B-Block of Secretariat before 1 p.m. today. They may contact Ms. M. Lalitha Ambika, Deputy Secretary. She can be contacted at her cell phone number 9951531798.
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Dr. Humaira Sikander Ali, Child Specialist is conducting a free Medical Camp for Children from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at MM Hospital Mehdipatnam. She will treat all ailments of Children of any age. Patients are requested to avail of this opportunity. For further details please contact phone numbers 23535326 or 23531558.
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Assuring that YSRCP will continue all the welfare schemes of YSR in addition to the five poll assurances, the party Honorary President YS Vijayamma has said, TDP is making empty promises and it has no track record of keeping up the word given to the people
“I appeal you to vote for YSRCP fan symbol in the ensuing multiple elections. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will continue all the welfare schemes of YSR and will fulfill the five election promises as he has inherited from his father, the quality of sticking to the word.
Outraged by his ouster within hours of joining the BJP recently, a defiant Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik Friday said he was contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Bangalore South and Dharwad constituencies in Karnataka.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ananth Kumar and Prahlad Joshi are in the fray in Bangalore South and Dharwad.
The following is the scoreboard of the World Twenty20 Group 2 match between India and Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here Friday.
Bangladesh
Tamim Iqbal c Raina b Ashwin 6
Anamul Haque b Mishra 44
Shamsur Rahman c Sharma b Ashwin 0
Shakib Al Hasan b Kumar 1
Mushfiqur Rahim c Kohli b Mohammed Shami 24
Nasir Hossain st Dhoni b Mishra 16
Mahmudullah not out 33
Ziaur Rahman c Jadeja b Mishra 0
Mashrafe Mortaza not out 6
Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 2) 8
Total (for seven wickets in 20 overs) 138
A total of 133 first information reports (FIRs) have been registered against various political parties for infringing the model code of conduct prior to the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, said poll panel officials.
While 20 FIRs have been registered against the Congress, 13 FIRs have been registered against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said the official.
“A total of 5 FIRss have been registered against the Bharatiya Janata Party, whereas 85 FIRs are against other political parties,” added the official.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday submitted a proposal to the lower house of parliament on terminating a number of Russia-Ukraine agreements over the Black Sea Fleet.
The agreements, signed in 1997, are related to the parameters of division of the Black Sea Fleet as well as the status and conditions of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s deployment on the territory of Ukraine on reciprocal payments.
At least four people, including a journalist, were killed Friday during clashes between Egyptian security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi at a neighbourhood in the national capital, official MENA news agency reported.
“The four victims include a female journalist at Dostor online newspaper and a female Copt,” MENA quoted a security official as saying, according to Xinhua.