The government on Friday approved a soft loan of Rs 200 crore for paying salaries to employees of loss-making PSU Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Ltd. The move is expected to mitigate the hardship being faced by the company in paying its employees. ITI Ltd had 7,633 employees as on December 1, 2013.The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson is reportedly expected to be the solution to his team’s problems with the reverse swing when he returns for the series-deciding third Test against South Africa at Cape Town.
Australia is expected to resist the temptation of freshening up its pace attack despite another dry, shaved pitch being prepared at Newlands which may foster a repeat of South Africa’s shock success with reverse swing in Port Elizabeth.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the international community has failed to prevent genocide in Syria 20 years after the Rwanda situation.
Ban said failing to prevent atrocities in Syria is ‘a shameful indictment’.
According to Fox News, he also pointed to ‘grave and blatant’ human rights violations in the Central African Republic.
Ban also expressed gave concern over civilians threatened in many regions, and worrying trends such as rising bias against migrants, Muslims, Roma and other minorities in Europe and elsewhere.
Barack Obama’s half-sibling has confessed that his initial impression of the current President of the United States of America was that he is just “too black”.
During an interview with Newsmax, Mark Ndesandjo said that when they first met in 1988, Obama found him “too white” while he found him “too black”, the Washington Times reported.
Ndesandjo, who has released his new book ‘ Nairobi to Shenzhen ‘, revealed that the first African American President was very much influenced by African nationalists and had very strong opinions about the roles of independence during those years.
Despite having a pool of talent, Indian startups fail to get their big break from social media giants like Facebook, which recently grabbed Little Eye Labs, while its talks with another startup simply failed.
Social media analytics startup, Salorix, which had raised 3.5 million dollars in funding, had also been eyed by Facebook. However, since the investors acted too pricey for Facebook, the deal eventually was stalled.
A German court has reportedly dismissed the 2 billion dollar lawsuit filed against Apple for allegedly infringing on a European patent essential to 3G and LTE devices.
The German company, IPCom, had sought the said damages by arguing that it owned the patents.
According to The Verge, Germany’s Mannheim regional court dismissed the case, having also dismissed a similar case between IPCom and HTC.
The report said that the rulings were a significant setback for IPCom, a company that owns 1,200 patents related to mobile technologies.
A Florida headmaster had won an age discrimination settlement worth 80,000 dollars after a year-long battle, which was to be paid on the condition of keeping matters ‘confidential,’ and then his daughter announced it all from the virtual rooftops.
Patrick Snay used to be the headmaster at Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory School and when his contract wasn’t renewed in 2010, he claimed age discrimination and that there had been retaliation against his daughter, who studied at the same school.
Negative feedback in performance review significantly bothers even the best of employees, it has been revealed.
The new research by psychologists at Kansas State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Texas A and M University has highlighted the dangerous impact of performance review tools like rankings and ratings can be, the Washington Post reported.
The study has shown that those who were most concerned about what other people think hated the constructive criticism they got in reviews, which is the same for the people who seemed most intent on learning. (ANI)
Google is reportedly fighting a court order asking it to remove all the copies of anti-Islamic film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ from its YouTube service.
The search giant has filed an emergency motion that would allow it to keep the video available until a final decision has been made in a copyright case involving one of the film’s actresses.
Collision with lorry proved fatal
(Siasat News): A man on a motorbike severely hit the stationary lorry that proved fatal.
This incident occurred in Nacharam police limits where Sagar Goud, 22, a private employee, died when his motorbike hit the stationary lorry parked in a corner of the road.
The deceased was the resident of Malkajgiri. Police is further investigating.
Husband commits suicide after row with wife
A hotel room attendant in south Delhi’s Mehrauli was arrested after he allegedly attempted to rape a 22- yea-rold singer from Kolkata, who had arrived in the Capital to perform at a function.
According to a senior police officer, the accused, identified as Deepak, works as a room attendant at Golden Tulip hotel at Mehrauli area. “He was detained and sent to judicial custody for 14 days.”
Four members of a family including a child sustained burns after an LPG cylinder exploded in Baligari village of Jajpur district, police said on Saturday.
The explosion took place when cooking was in progress in the house yesterday. Four persons suffered 30 to 50 per cent burns and were hospitalised.
The walls and other materials of the house were damaged causing panic in the village. A fire tender brought the situation under contril.
“We suspect gas leak is the reason for the explosion,” police said.
—PTI
Dr. Iffath Fatima (birth name Padma Reddy) says she was very much impressed by the Muslims since her childhood; she used to respect their prayers and family values. 41 year old Dr. Iffath Fatima who embraced Islam in 2005 has done BHMS from Nagpur University. She arrived at Siasat office but since she has lost both the legs and can’t climb stairs her interview was taken in the auto itself. She told that she was born to a farmer in a village near Kodangal. Her parents are no more. Recalling the sudden change in her life Dr.
A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenager, who was her neighbour in Janaki Pada area here, police said on Saturday.
The accused, Janardhan Bind (19) who works in a local company, lured the girl with chocolates and took her to his house yesterday when her parents were not around, API G B Mali of Waliv police station said.
The incident came to light when the girl told her mother about the sexual abuse.
Bind has been arrested and booked under section 376 of the IPC and section 4 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual offences Act 2012.
—PTI
Doctors working to bring out Formula One legend Michael Schumacher from his induced coma are reportedly hoping to see eye movements from the German as they enter the third week of their ‘waking up’ process.
The seven-time world champion has been in the coma since smashing his head against a hidden rock during a low-speed ski-run in the French Alps just after Christmas.
A man, working as a PR rep in NYC, has filed a lawsuit against his former female bosses after they fired him for supposedly turning down their sexual advances.
Joseph Earl Jackson has claimed in his lawsuit that his supervisors at Open Communications Omnimedia fondled, kissed and flirted with him, and asked him to take part in a “bang sesh,” the New York Post reported.
Jackson said that one of his supervisors, Sally O’Dowd, told him “she loved young black and Hispanic men” and “that she loved how sexy his chest and deltoids were in his white shirt”.
John Mayer was seen hitting up a jazz club in Soho just a day after breaking-up with Katy Perry.
Multiple sources told the New York Post that the ‘Say’ hit maker didn’t look distraught over his recent split when he arrived at the Blue Note to see pianist Chick Corea perform.
Insiders also claimed that the 36-year-old singer was smiling and stayed into the wee hours to enjoy the show.
Mayer later posted a video of the jazz performance with the caption, “Helluva night.” (ANI)
Nagna from Nagaland is part of a group of around 15 crafts persons from the Northeast who were in Agra recently to showcase their intricately designed products at the Taj Mahotsav.
She set up a stall showcasing beautifully crafted artificial flowers.
She is happy to have got the chance to interact with people from different parts of the country and also with the enthusiastic response of the visitors.
Nagna said: “It is very good to come here. I got to see so many things and I am very happy to interact with and meet people. Here, business is also very good.”
Actress Winona Ryder says she has no qualms about being clicked in same outfits again and again. What’s more, she admits to wearing dresses worth only $10 to the Oscars.
In an interview to Red magazine, the 42-year-old talked about her fondness for vintage dresses too, reports eonline.com.
“Most of my wardrobe is vintage and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10. At (actor) Sean Penn’s last Haiti gala, I wore this vintage dress that I’d worn to a film premiere in 2005.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will hold road shows in various parts of Uttar Pradesh in order to woo voters for his party in view of the upcoming general elections in the nation due in May.
According to the President, District Congress Committee, Praja Nath Sharma, after landing at the helipad near the police line, Gandhi will visit neighbouring cities where he will address public rallies and thereafter will go to end the Sadhbhavna rally started by the Youth Congress along with members of the Congress committee.
Reacting to reports of former army Chief General V.K Singh to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Ali Anwar on Saturday said that Singh has been mentally a part of the BJP, and that he truly belonged to the party as he followed a similar school of thought.
“People already had an idea about it. It must be in mind since a long time. He has gone to the place he actually belongs to,” said Anwar.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal launched a Jhadu Chalao Yatra on Saturday that will cover 15 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
The roadshow began from his residence in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad District, and will cover Ghaziabad, Pilkhuwa, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur and Hardoi.
On Sunday, it will proceed to Unnao and Kanpur. In Kanpur, Kejriwal will address a rally and meet business community and social organisation leaders.
On Monday, the roadshow will cover Auraiya, Etawah, Firozabad, Agra, Mathura and Palwal.
Taking the poll battle to Uttar Pradesh, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal today kick-started his three-day road show in the politically significant state.
Kejriwal’s rally, which started from the party office in Kaushambi, will cover over 15 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The rally will cover Ghaziabad, Pilkhuwa, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur and Hardoi.
A federal judge in Washington has granted a Sikh rights group the right to serve a notice on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh through the Hague Service Convention.
Under the February 28 order, Judge James E. Boasberg states: “Plaintiffs shall by April 14, 2014, either file proof of service or file a status report updating the Court on their progress in effecting service”.
Fire broke out in Udaipur’s Sheraton Hotel on Saturday morning.
Fire tenders rushed to the spot to put out the flames.
Five teams of fire tenders have been pressed into service. (ANI)