Fire broke at C block of Andhra Pradesh Secretariat. Saifabad police told that the fire accident occurred at 7:45 pm on Monday and security guards of Special Protection Force present there informed fire extinguishing team. Fire fighting team doused the fire.
Some files are said to be damaged due to fire. While secretary Mr. N Shiv Shankar clarified that no file has been damaged. Investigations are underway.
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In an alarming research, a team of scientists at Stanford University have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing the risk of drought and flood in central India.
The team, which includes two Indian-origin researchers, reveal that the intensity of extremely wet spells and the number of extremely dry spells during the south Asian monsoon season have both been increasing in recent decades.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday unleashed a torrent of vitriol against Narendra Modi, saying the country will be “ruined” and plunge into darkness if he comes to power, a day after a furious Trinamool Congress slammed him as “butcher of Gujarat”.
The no-holds barred attack against the BJP prime ministerial candidate came even as the ruling TMC demanded a public apology from him for doubting the integrity of Banerjee over the sale of her paintings and also complained to the Election Commission against him.
You leave your fingerprints all over – from computer keyboards or door knobs – but do you know that your smart phone leaves real-time fingerprints that cannot be removed?
Puzzled? Not any more. Three Indian-origin researchers have demonstrated that the accelerometers used in mobile devices possess unique trackable fingerprints.
These fingerprints stem from subtle idiosyncrasies in device manufacturing and are reflected in the unprotected data shared with numerous applications.
A Jharkhand court Tuesday suspended the order for the arrest of Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh till May 3 for his hate speech during campaigning.
A Deoghar district court issued the order after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader filed a petition for his anticipatory bail.
Two first information reports were lodged against Giriraj Singh – one in Bokaro district and the second in Deoghar district of the state – on the instructions of the Election Commission.
He is the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Nawada constituency in Bihar.
North Korea set off its live-fire drill Tuesday near the disputed inter-Korean border islands, about a month after conducting the same drill.
Military officials said that Pyongyang started the pre-noticed live-fire drills around 2 p.m., Xinhua reported.
North Korea was known to have fired self-propelled artillery shells from coastal battery positions toward waters just north of the western inter-Koran sea border.
Shweta student of SS Juniro college scored469 out of 500 with 92 percent in MCE intermediate I year exam.
Director SS Junior College S M Ali congratulated Shweta on her outstanding performance.
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Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia today appointed India-born Rajeev Suri as its President and CEO.
Earlier, the 46-year old was leading Nokia Solutions and Networks, the smaller network equipment unit of Nokia before the company sold its handset business to software giant Microsoft in a USD 7.2 billion deal.
He replaces Stephen Elop, who has returned to Microsoft as the executive vice president of its devices group.
April 30, 2014 will be a big day for 2.81 crore voters in Telangana as they exercise their franchise for electing the first government of the new state that will formally come into existence on June 2.
The voters, including 1.37 crore women, will decide the political fate of 1669 candidates contesting for 119 Assembly seats in the region, as also 265 candidates for 17 LS seats.
Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and Telugu Desam-Bharatiya Janata Party combine are the main contenders for power in what will be the 29th state of Indian Union.
TDP candidate for Nampally assembly constituency Mr. Mohammed Feroz Khan in a statement requested the voters to cast their valuable vote on the basis of performance so that their votes are not wasted.
Sikh and Muslim rights group in California will file multiple complaints against an amusement parks chain that denied access to people from the two communities to certain rides, saying the religious head coverings worn by them posed safety hazards.
The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) and United Sikhs will announce the filing of multiple public accommodation complaints with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against Boomers amusement parks.
Over 1.95 crore voters in Punjab are eligible to cast ballot Wednesday for the 13 Lok Sabha seats amid political tension after the poll panel banned Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia from moving anywhere in Amritsar city other than his own polling station.
The Election Commission (EC) is expecting up to 80 percent voting Wednesday. Punjab recorded 70 percent polling in the 2009 general elections, said Punjab’s Chief Electoral Officer V.K. Singh.
There are 253 candidates in the fray for all the 13 seats this time.
Student held
(Siasat News): Madhapur police arrested a 20-year-old B. Com student for creating a fake account of a TV artist on social networking site, facebook and sending obscene photos to other women.
According to police, the accused Gopinath from Khammam district, accepted friend’s request from women who thought the account was of the artist Sagar from ‘Mogali Rekulu’, Telugu serial.
Abdominal obesity in children is directly related to metabolic diseases in them, including high blood pressure and diabetes, a new study has shown.
The study was done on 10,842 children in five cities of India namely Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Raipur. It suggests cut-off values of waist circumference for screening for Metabolic Syndrome (MS) in Indian children.
It has also developed age and sex specific reference curves for waist circumference for Indian children. This study has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Paediatrics.
Osman Nagar Bandlaguda is facing acute water scarcity problem. People rely on water tankers. Hence to solve water scarcity problem construction of water tank began on February 24, 2009 with the cost of 22.37 crore and Muslims were assured that their water problem would be solved soon. But the work is lying unfinished so far.
During a grand function at Khaja Pahadi on February 9, 2009, foundation stone was laid of a big project. It was underground cable project with the cost of 24.48 crore. The project is limited to foundation laying only.
Do you often hear your parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher call you ‘fat’? Be cautious as simply being called ‘fat’ makes young girls more likely to become obese.
According to a study, girls who are told that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19.
“Simply being labeled as too fat has a measurable effect almost a decade later. We nearly fell off our chairs when we discovered this,” said A. Janet Tomiyama, an assistant professor of psychology at University of California, Los Angeles.
The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its order on setting up a panel to probe allegation of spot-fixing and betting against some of the cricketers playing the Indian Premier League (IPL) and BCCI president N. Srinivasan.
The apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik reserved the order after it was told here that Justice Mukul Mudgal has consented to head the panel to investigate the allegations against the cricketers and Srinivasan.
Attacking Narendra Modi, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Laloo Prasad Yadav today said that “even a butcher is shy” of the BJP leader who was aiming to become the Prime Minister of the country.
“A butcher is also shy of Narendra Modi. Will this man become the PM of India?,” Prasad said here.
His remarks come in the backdrop of a no-holds barred war of words between Tinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP.
TMC had hit out at Modi on Sunday calling him the “Butcher of Gujarat”, in an angry retaliation to his attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
People are of the view that MP’s vote will go to regional party while MLA’s vote for Yaqutpura assembly constituency will go to MBT candidate Farhat Khan and for Chandrayangutta assembly constituency to Qayam Khan. This strategy is to teach politicians a lesson that the leader who is real public servant will get people’s vote; who is more worried about community than his personal interest.
Former Pakistan Test fast bowler Shahid Nazir will reportedly file a petition against former captain and current chief selector Moin Khan regarding the outstanding payments of players who participated in the now-defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL).
With the ICL not being recognised by the ICC or the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI), Pakistani players appearing in the event were banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board ( PCB) but later allowed to represent their country and play domestic cricket after submitting apologies.
Women are now undergoing surgery to fit themselves in designer shoes better.
According to the New York Times, a handful of LA and NYC-based podiatrists perform procedures specifically designed to help women fit comfortably into designer heels, Fox News reported.
Aesthetic toe-shortening, fat-pad augmentation, and toe-lengthening procedures are the most common, according to one Beverly Hills podiatrist, who brands his procedures with names like “the Cinderella” and “Perfect 10!”
A minor fire was reported at the Prime Minister’s Office located in South Block in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Top officials of the city administration, Delhi Police and the Fire Brigade Department were rushed to the PMO to take stock of the situation.
“It was a small fire in a room on the ground floor of the PMO. We received the call at about 6:25 am. Six to seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot. It was brought under control within minutes,” AK Sharma, director, Delhi Fire Service, told a news agency.
Filmmaker Kunal Kohli, who started his career on television and also judged reality shows in the past, is back on the home medium with a new show.
He will judge a talent hunt show on NDTV channel.
Shedding light on his renewed relationship with the home-viewing medium, Kohli says: “I am going to be seen on ‘Ticket To Bollywood’ every weekday at 9 p.m. I will be a judge on the show along with Mukesh Chabria and Mahima Chowdhary. It’s a talent-hunt show on NDTV Prime. We’re supposed to find one male and one female star aspirant.”
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has approached President Pranab Mukherjee seeking enhanced security cover for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Ashok Singhal, patron of VHP, claimed that suicide bombers may target Modi, on the lines of the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi by the LTTE.
Just shifted to a smart home full of automated gadgets – from light switches to appliances to heating systems – but do not know how to activate and programme them to listen to your command? Read on.
A group of computer science researchers in the US may have found a workable programming solution for you.
Through a series of surveys and experiments, the researchers show that a style of programming they term “trigger-action programming” provides a powerful and intuitive means of talking to smart home gadgets.