Reiterating India’s commitment towards the development of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday said India seeks to consolidate the partnership, and focus on building infrastructure and concrete projects for cooperation.
More than 200 sex attacks have been committed against military personnel in the UK Armed Forces in three years, according to new figures.
Between the years 2011 to 2013, around 75 rape allegations and 150 sexual assaults claims were made against military colleagues.
However, one MP said that the bizarre statistics was just the tip of the iceberg, adding that most of the sex crimes were going unreported.
Researchers have developed a new methodology for rapidly measuring the level of antibiotic drug molecules in human blood serum, paving the way to applications within drug development and personalised medicine.
Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed his anger at the 12-year American war in Afghanistan.
Expressing ‘extreme anger’ towards the U.S. government, Karzai said in an interview with the Washington Post that the war in Afghanistan was not fought with his country’s interests in mind.
In the unusually emotional interview, Karzai explained why he has been such a harsh critic of the 12-year-old U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.
Karzai said he has been deeply troubled by all the casualties he has seen, including those in U.S. military operations.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham have bought late style guru Versace’s 36 million pounds palace.
The ‘ Casa Casuarina ‘, which was built in 1930, had cost 6 million pounds in 1992 when Versace bought it and has unobstructed sea views and a mosaic-tiled pool lined with 24-carat gold, the Daily Express reported.
Versace, who was gunned down on the 10-bedroom palatial residence’s doorstep in 1997 by a serial killer, had spent another 20 million expanding and remodeling it.
Victoria is a close friend of Versace’s designer sister, Donatella. (ANI)
The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 54 points in early trade today as funds and retail investors booked profits after five-sessions of gains amid a subdued economic growth data for the December quarter.
Besides, a weakening trend in the Asian region also weighed on the trading sentiments here.
Snapping its five-day long winning streak, the 30-share barometer fell by 54.16 points, or 0.26 per cent, to 21,065.96, mainly due to weakness in PSUs, banking, realty capital goods, auto and metal sector stocks.
The chip-partnership between Apple and Samsung is still strong, an expert has revealed.
CEO of chip industry tracker VLSI Research, Dan Hutcheson, earlier believed that Samsung won’t be a supplier to Apple for its future processors and other silicon.
However, after his recent trip to South Korea, he found that in summertime, Samsung’s manufacturing labs were running pretty empty, but then all of a sudden they started coming back, Cnet reports.
An event organised on Saturday gives important pointers on good accounting practices to the people residing in apartments and gated communities to manage their residents’ welfare associations and minimise expenditure.
During the interactive session, residents expressed their grievances about increasing water and maintenance charges and draw attention to that people living outside their apartments that did not pay maintenance charges, whose burden eventually fell on other d inhabitants.
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The Rajajinagar police had detained a person for allegedly trying to sell diamonds illegally to a City-based businessman.
According to police, the accused, Vetrivelu, 47year-old, a native of Tamil Nadu, had come to the City on February 25 with diamonds worth Rs four crore in his possession. He was lodging in Shivaal’s hotel in Rajajinagar.
Acting on a tip-off, the police went to the hotel in mufti and on the pretext of buying diamonds nabbed Vetrivelu.
At least 11 people – including a judge – were killed and over 24 others injured in firing and twin suicide blasts here Monday morning, police said.
Sikandar Hayyat, inspector general of Islamabad police, said that heavily armed gunmen entered a district court located in downtown F-8 area from the rear side, opened fire at the people and hurled hand grenades at the lawyers’ chambers, Xinhua reported.
“After hearing blasts in the court, policemen from the nearby police station rushed to the site and opened fire at the militants, who blew themselves up after getting cornered,” he said.
Youths electrocuted to death
(Siasat News): Two youths came into contact with a live electrical wire and died in Rajendranagar police station limits.
Police said that Mohd. Khalid, 17 and Iqbal Ahmed Khan, 18, residents of Suleman Nagar came into contact of electric transformer’s cable and died on the spot.
They were shifted to Osmania hospital where doctors declared them as dead. Police has registered a case and further investigations are on.
With a view to uplift the socio-economic condition of the Muslim community, the government of India intends to take steps to develop 490,000 Waqf (Islamic endowment) properties. Revenue generated from these properties, all over the country will be utilised.
Mr. Dinesh Amin Mattu, the media advisor to Karnataka chief minister, speaking on the annual award ceremony of Muslim Lekhakara Sangha said that people of backward classes, dalits and Muslims have become puppets in the hands of powerful people in the country, here at Town Hall on February 28.
Mr. Dinesh, former journalist said that the seeds of disharmony between AHINDA (minorities, backward classes and dalits) communities have always been used in order to suppress them.
In the early hours of Sunday, police busted a rave party and arrested 25 persons including three women at Sherguda village in Mahbubnagar district. Police seized drugs, liquor, and a sum of Rs 21.36 lakh in the raid.
Acting on information, Shadnagar police led by Inspector Nirmala raided the resort, which organized the first raid party in the district. The partaker was allegedly found indulging in obscene acts.
India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi have won their fifth ATP World Tour doubles title and the first since reuniting at the start of 2014 by beating Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
The ‘IndoPak Express’ received 500 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings as they claimed victory in 68 minutes, winning 78 percent of their service points and breaking the top seeds twice from seven opportunities, reports ATP Tour website.
Ending six- years of struggle, a legal battle that involved emotional arguments and a DNA test, veteran Congress politician Narayan Dutt Tiwari has finally accepted a young man Rohit Shekhar we became familiar with took Mr.Tiwari to court, accepted as his biological son.
“I have accepted that Rohit Shekhar is my son. The DNA test also proved he is my biological son,” Mr Tiwari told in his first ever public acknowledgement of the 34-year-old and his mother Ujjwala Sharma.
With the division of Andhra Pradesh a reality now, political parties in the state are redrawing their strategies with the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly elections looming.
President’s rule was imposed in Andhra as Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and also a number of Congress MLAs quit their posts and party in Seemandhra in protest against the state’s division. Riding the formation of Telangana, the Congress is hoping to make gains in the region which has 17 Lok Sabha and 119 assembly segments.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Monday launched a pilot centre of a scheme which would provide subsidised hot and hygienic meals to the poor for Rs.5 at Nampally Sarai here.
GHMC, which plans to feed 15,000 people a day, will set up 50 such centres, each equipped to serve 300 persons.
The actual cost of the meal would be RS.20, GHMC will bear the balance cost. To start with, GHMC has partnered with Akshaya Patra Foundation, run by Hare Krishna Movement, which will prepare the food.
Petrol bunks in Hyderabad and other major cities and towns in Andhra Pradesh remained closed for the second day Monday to protest the crackdown by legal metrology department against some outlets allegedly tampering dispensing units.
The flash strike, which began Sunday evening, continued in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and other towns causing severe inconvenience to vehicle owners.
Petrol bunks in Hyderabad and other major cities and towns in Andhra Pradesh remained closed for the second day Monday to protest the crackdown by legal metrology department against some outlets allegedly tampering dispensing units.
The flash strike, which began Sunday evening, continued in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and other towns causing severe inconvenience to vehicle owners.
A new book suggests that parental fears of teens’ online activities are wildly overblown, largely due to a combination of misinformation and a general sense of fear that has overtaken the country.
For her book, Microsoft and Harvard researcher danah boyd (she insists on a lower-case name), she interviewed more than 150 teens, as well as parents, teachers, and other authority figures from 2007-10, the New York Post reported.
Part of the irrational fear of online predators, boyd said, speaks to the difficulties some adults have of admitting certain facts about sexual abuse .
The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the centre and all the states on a petition saying there should be no discrimination on admitting HIV positive children to schools.
An apex court bench headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan issued notice after NGO Naaz Foundation urged it to issue directions that HIV positive school children should not be discriminated against and turned out of the schools.
The NGO said that HIV positive children should be treated as “disadvantaged”.IANS
The al-khawf or fear station is one of the most splendid stations of the road and the most beneficial to the heart. It is also mandatory upon everyone. Allah said:
“So fear them not, but fear Me, if you are believers.”
(Al-Qur’an 3:175)
“And fear none but Me.”
(Al-Qur’an 2:40)
and
“So fear not men but fear Me.”
(Al-Qur’an 5:44)
Allah, subhanahu wa ta’ala, also praised His people in His Book, saying:
“Verily! Those who live in awe for fear of their Lord … It is these who race for the good deeds and they are foremost in them.”
(Al-Qur’an 23:57-61)
Kristin Davis, who played socialite Charlotte York in ‘ Sex and the City’ for almost a decade, has revealed that she feels guilty for encouraging women to wear high heels .
The 49-year-old actress said that the show made heels look like a necessity, the Daily Express reported.
Davis explained that the heels were beautiful and essential for the characters, but it became a bigger picture, where it seemed that women should be wearing them every day.
Davis added that she “hardly ever wears heels now”. (ANI)