Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Tuesday alleged that a top official of the Uttar Pradesh Government is trying to influence the ongoing parliamentary polls in the state by ‘threatening’ officers on the election duty.
Urging the Election Commission to take cognisance of it, Hussain said the party is willing to disclose the name of the official.
More than 10,000 poll staff deployed at 1,546 polling stations in Srinagar Lok Sabha seat reached their places of duty and will spend the night there ahead of polling Wednesday while over 50 paramilitary troopers and local policemen each began securing the sites.
Due to security reasons, all the polling staff at polling stations set up at 968 places would spend the night there.
A total of 241 companies of central paramilitary forces and over 10,000 local policemen have been deployed for polling duties in Srinagar Lok Sabha seat.
The Bombay High Court today rejected the plea of Sayyed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, prime accused in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, to quash a Maharashtra Government Resolution (GR) which prohibited him from appearing in the courts as he had threat to his life.
Jundal’s lawyer Ejaz Naqvi prayed that his client had a right under the Constitution to appear before the courts in cases filed against him because he had to defend himself.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday attacked the BJP, saying more people died due to terrorism during the NDA regime than during the Congress tenure.
“We have statistics to prove we produced more electricity and curbed terrorism (than the BJP),” Gandhi said at an election rally here.
“During the five years of BJP rule, 22,000 people lost their lives. During the Kandahar (Afghanistan) hijacking (of 1999), top BJP leaders stood in a line and gave the terrorists whatever they wanted,” he said, adding it was this incident which led to the attack on parliament.
A 35-year-old school teacher was Tuesday arrested here for molesting five girl students in the school premises, police said.
Music teacher Vijay Kumar was arrested following a violent protest by guardians of the students, aged between 13 and 15 years, outside the government school in Mahendra Park area of west Delhi.
Police said family members of the students gathered outside the school and demanded action against the teacher. The angry relatives also pelted stones at the school building.
Nokia is reportedly developing a handset dubbed the “Superman” with 5-megapixel front-facing camera to woo selfie-takers.
According to CNET, the Superman, if it exists and launches, would match HTC’s recently launched One M8, which also comes with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera to enhance selfie shots.
Sources have revealed that the midrange handset’s features will be a lot different from that of the high-end HTC One M8.
The report added that the handset will come with a 4.7-inch screen.
Nokia was recently acquired by software giant Microsoft for 7.5 billion dollars. (ANI)
The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has asked the petroleum ministry to implement the cabinet-approved new natural gas price on May 13, when the election code of conduct will no longer apply after the end of the nine-phased voting in the ongoing Lok Sabha poll.
A senior ministry source told IANS that RIL had written on April 3 that announcing the new rate immediately after the polling code ends on May 12 was “necessary to avoid extended dispute and irreparable loss to all parties to the Production Sharing Contract (PSC)”.
Bharti Airtel posted 89 percent jump in net profit in the fourth quarter (January-March) on voice and data business growth, a company statement said here Tuesday.
The net profit for the fourth quarter stood at Rs.962 crore, up from Rs.509 crore posted during the corresponding period last fiscal (2012-13).
The total revenue of the company was up by 13.5 percent at Rs.22,219 crore during the fourth quarter from Rs.19,582 crore in corresponding period in 2012-13.
An auto driver was beaten to death allegedly by a passenger after a brawl over paying fare in Link Road area of Ghaziabad here.
The incident took place late last night when the auto driver, Sohan Pal asked the passenger, Shivam to pay the fare, police said.
A prototype mechanical keyboard that recognises hand gestures performed on or immediately above the keys has been developed.
The Type-Hover-Swipe keyboard, developed by a team at Microsoft Research, features infrared proximity sensors embedded in a printed circuit board.
Each sensor node peeks out from between the regular key caps, tracking the movement of the user’s hands as they touch the keyboard or hover above it.
Indian gymnasts returned with a rich haul of seven medals, including three golds, from the International Commonwealth Championships held at Perth, Australia from April 26 to 27.
According to a Sports Authority of India (SAI) statement, apart from three gold medals Indian gymnasts also bagged three silver and one bronze from the two-day event.
While 2010 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medallist Ashish Kumar won two gold medals for India, female gymnast Dipa Karmakar bagged the other yellow metal.
By the time the Lok Sabha poll drums fall silent on May 10, Narendra Modi would have undertaken the largest mass outreach in India’s electoral history by travelling about 300,000 km for 437 public meetings in 25 states besides 1350 innovative 3D rallies.
The Modi juggernaut rolled out on September 15 last year with an ex-servicemen’s rally in Rewari in Haryana and would continue till the evening of May 10 when electioneering for the ninth and last phase of the polls in which votes will be cast on May 12.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy questioned here today, about why Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president Chandrababu Naidu had not implemented welfare schemes he had promised.
Addressing a gathering at Gannavaram town near here as part of his election campaign in the Seemandhra region, he claimed that people never believed Chandrababu Naidu who scrapped all welfare schemes launched by his predecessor, the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister N T Rama Rao, who had also founded the TDP.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will become the Prime Minister if the third front forms the government at the Centre.
“In the Lok Sabha elections, SP will get maximum seats in UP and if the third front forms the government at the Centre, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will become the PM,” Akhilesh said while addressing an election rally here.
As part of election campaign, Rajampet BJP candidate former union minister Daggupati Purundeshwari today participated in road shows in Rayachoti of Kadapa district.
Addressing gathering at the road shows, Purundeshwari said she was an adopted daughter of Rayalaseema and urged people to help her to win Rajampet Lok Sabha seat.
Earlier, she garlanded the statue of her father and TDP founder NTR and visited Venkateshwar swami temple in the village.(NSS)
The BJP national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar today said that TRS was afraid of tremendous support getting by party’s prime ministerial Narendra Modi.
Speaking to reporters here, Javedkar questioned as to why TRS is not talking against the Congress.
Criticizing anti-seemandhra attitude of TRS, he reminded that his party has strongly condemned the comment of TRS which described seemandhra people are “Rakshasulu” (devil).
AICC President Sonia Gandhi will participate in the election campaign in Seemandhra region.
According to party sources, Sonia Gandhi will address a public meeting in Guntur on May 2. Earlier, she was scheduled to address a public meeting in Visakhapatnam. However, the Vizag meeting has been cancelled and instead, she will address a meeting in Guntur at 4 PM on May 2. (INN)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can’t look beyond the mother-son duo of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, and therefore, was unable to see or accept that there is a Modi wave across the country.
The Andhra Pradesh Police is fully geared up for conducting the elections in 17 Parliamentary and 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana on Wednesday.
According to DGP B Prasada Rao, police department has taken all measures for maintenance of law and order in the run-up to the first phase of General Elections on April 30 in 10 districts of Telangana, which also comprises of Hyderabad and Cyberabad Police Commissionerates.
The Pakistani couple who was denied permission to board the Thar Express at Rajasthan’s Munabao railway station four days ago, finally got a visa for their 15-day-old son from the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, the family sources said here.
Mai Fatima and her husband Meer Mohammed, after meeting the Pakistan High Commission officials, received the visa for their baby boy born in Jaisalmer on April 14, their relative Rasool Khan told PTI over phone.
The entry of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha, the lone woman contestant in entire Telangana region, into the poll contest has upped the stakes in the battle for this Lok Sabha seat where Congress candidate and sitting MP Madhu Yashki Goud is eyeing a hat-trick.
Had Kavitha not entered the fray, the Lok Sabha polls here would not have attracted any special attention. But the post- graduate in engineering, who is making her political debut this time, is expected to give a tough competition to Goud, who is representing the seat in Parliament since 2004.
Low blood sugar levels may lead to heart rhythm disturbances and even life-threatening heart attacks, an alarming study shows.
Low overnight blood sugar levels that often go undetected cause prolonged periods of heart rhythm disturbances in older patients with type 2 diabetes and associated heart problems, revealed the research.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk urged lawmakers Tuesday to amend the country’s constitution to grant more power to local governments in a bid to ease tensions in eastern regions.
“The excessive powers of the central government should be abolished, and a significant part of the political, economic, financial, social and human authorities must be transferred to the local communities,” Xinhua quoted Yatsenyuk as telling the parliament.
Yatsenyuk has called on all political parties to approve the constitutional amendments before the presidential election is held May 25.
An Orphan is not one who has no parents; Verily he is an orphan who is deprived of knowledge and adab (respect/etiquette).
This is an Arabic saying which very concisely describes the importance of respect in a person. Indeed, when one is deprived of respect and etiquette, one can stoop to a level that any normal human being would consider unthinkable, let alone any person with Imaan.
Dear Sisters, our role models come from the Qur’an. You may have heard the story of the boy and the king. When the entire village became Muslim by the death of that young boy, the king ordered that an enormous fire be kindled and that all those who would not recant their religion be burnt alive. A Mu’minah, stood with her baby over the fire. She looked at her baby, and seeking her child’s weakness and innocence, she considered turning her back. The baby said to her, “What are you waiting for mother. Go forward for you are on the truth!” She nodded.