Month: May 2014

Jaya to meet Modi on June 3 in first official engagement

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In her first official engagement with Narendra Modi after he became Prime Minister, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will meet him in Delhi next week, in a bid to push for Central assistance for her state.

The June 3 meeting is scheduled against the backdrop of Jayalalithaa boycotting Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on May 26 to protest Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presence at the event. She had earlier dubbed as “unfortunate” the invitation to Rajapaksa.

Bringing change is a challenge, feels ‘administrator’ Gavaskar

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As his tenure will come to an end after the conclusion of the IPL final on June 1, BCCI-IPL president Sunil Gavaskar feels effective implementation of ideas is a big challenge for any former player who wants to don the administrator’s hat.

“The biggest challenge for him (player-turned-official) is to put forward some of the ideas he has and the suggestions he has based on of the observations he might have made while playing, and to convince the other members of the administration team to act on them,” Gavaskar told ‘IPLT20’ website yesterday.

Tariq Anwar appreciates Modi for showing disinclination over his profile being included in school curriculum

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Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) leader, Tariq Anwar on Friday appreciated prime minister Narendra Modi for showing disinclination in his profile being included in school curriculum by some states, while he criticised those who took such a step as ‘sycophants’.

“This is all sycophancy. Those people who bring such proposals they do with an aim to eulogise the leader. It is good that Modi has understood and realised it. My own opinion is that it won’t be right for students to learn about lives of those people who are still alive,” Anwar said.

Non-bailable arrest warrants issued against Gilani for financial irregularities

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Non-bailable arrest warrants have been issued against two senior Pakistan politicians in case relating to financial irregularities in the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).

An anti-corruption court in Karachi issued the warrants against former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and a senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Faheem.

According to Dawn News, a case has been registered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) when Faheem was the commerce minister.

Modern slaughter house at Ranmastpura gathers dust

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Ranmastpura is an old Muslim dominated area. The area assumes great importance for Quraish community as a slaughter house was functioning in the locality for more than 50 years. The slaughter house was closed under certain circumstance. However the court issued orders to restore the slaughter house on the condition of keeping it in tune with the modern technological requirement. Since it was the issue of employment of Quraish community hence immediate attention was paid to the issue soon after the issue of orders and the construction of modern slaughter house began on December 12, 2009.

Livid families cry foul over ‘non-existent’ MH370 pings

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Families of passengers flying aboard the MH370 are crying foul over recent revelations that the underwater pings, reported to be from the missing Malaysia Airline flight’s black-box, are false.

Amid wide uproar and criticism, relatives of passengers have expressed deep condemnation against Malaysian airlines and the government as no intensive investigation has been consequential.

Defence expert welcomes Govt. move to allow 100 percent FDI in defence

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Defence expert Bharat Verma on Friday welcomed the Union Government’s decision to allow 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)in defence and termed it a bold initiative to help make India a manufacturing hub in defence sector.

” Prime Minister Modi’s bold move will change the whole scenario. It will meet our own military requirements. India will become hub of modern defence manufacturing,” Verma said.

Husband of Pak woman stoned to death by family ‘for love marriage’ murdered first wife

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The husband of a Pakistani woman, who was stoned to death by her family outside the Lahore High Court for marrying against their wishes, had murdered his first wife.

Farzana Parveen was murdered on Tuesday outside the LHC by more than two-dozen attackers, including her brother and father.

According to Dawn News, the brazen, brutal nature of the killing has triggered outrage around the world.

In a twist to a story that has shocked rights activists, Parveen’s husband Mohammad Iqbal, 45, has admitted killing his first wife.

Crime In Hyderabad (30.5.2014)

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Wife kills husband’s paramour
(Siasat News): A woman with the help of her son killed the paramour of her husband. This incident occurred in Shamirpet where one Narsamma, 40, was killed by Tulsiamma and her son Srikant.

The deceased had illicit relation with Guruswamy, husband of Tulsiamma. They were living in Tirkapalli. The deceased was the wife of one Rajya and used to sell fruits. However, she developed illicit relations with Guruswamy

Jessica Alba wishes to ‘just be at home’

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Jessica Alba has revealed that she feels like just being at home with her family.

The ‘Awake’ star has revealed that she has the best time with her kids without any distractions and she hates to go back to work as she just wants to be at home, People Magazine reported.

Speaking about her holiday plans, she said that they are heading to her husband Cash Warren ‘s mother’s house in the south of France as they love to experience the country lifestyle for a short while. (ANI)

Official emblem for Telangana state approved

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The proposed chief minister of Telangana state K Chandrasekhar Rao has given a nod to the official emblem of Telangana the 29th state of the country. The emblem also includes Urdu besides Charminar. various models of Telangana emblem were presented before Chandrasekhar Rao. After the consultation with the officials he approved an emblem.

Vengaboys World Cup song too ‘sexy’ for TV

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The Vengaboys have returned for the World Cup with a song that maybe just too sexy for pre-watershed television.

The 1990s Dutch Eurodance group released the music video for their Brazil venture two weeks ahead of the tournament, which literally shows lots of boob-baring acts, the Mirror reported.

But the video also has a parody present at the end which might just make it all right. (ANI)

Brits are biggest liars who fib three times a week

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Britain is a nation of fibbers who lie around 3 times a week on an average, revealed a survey.

In a study conducted by Ronseal, it was found that according to nation’s current population, which is approximately 63 million, only 14 percent of people believe they are completely honest whereas 16 percent admitted to have told their “big lie” within the fortnight, the Daily Star reported.

While men are most likely to fib about doing DIY and praising their female partners, the women mostly lie to their partners saying they’re fine even if they aren’t.

DIETCET will from now onwards be DEECET

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DIECET the exam conducted for admission into state level teachers training course is named from now on as DEECET. State Education Department formally issued orders in this connection. Reliable sources informed this and said the new orders include new conditions by education department. In the light of new conditions, students who have scored 50 pc marks in SSC exam are only eligible for DEECET. Beside that candidates of general category must secure 45 to 50 percent marks in intermediate exams.

Siasat news

35-yr-old man held for raping minor girl

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A 35-year-old man from Vasai in Thane district was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl, police said today.

The accused, Rajesh Vishwakarma, a resident of the same Boidapada locality in Vasai where the 11-year-old victim lived, yesterday went to her house when her parents were not around and asked her to cook food for him as his wife had not done so, Waliv police station inspector Narayan Patil said.

Is Selena Gomez helping Justin Bieber get ‘back on track’?

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Selena Gomez is trying to get her troubled on-off boyfriend Justin Bieber back on track after drink-drive arrest and drug claims, according to reports.

The 21-year-old singer’s grandfather Ricardo Gomez asserted that it was good for the singer to be next to Bieber and to keep him out of the bad habits, the Mirror reported.

The former Disney star’s grandfather said that Selena was telling them that she didn’t want to be with the Pop icon because of what he was doing, but he was getting into drugs and it was something she did not like.

Fire breaks out at Vaishno Devi shrine board godown

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A fire today broke out at around 4 am in the morning at the Vaishno Devi shrine board’s godown in Katra, J and K.

The reason for the fire breakout is still not clear.

The CEO of the Shrine Board, Dr M K Bhandari said that the officers of the shrine board, the CRPF and fire tenders immediately rushed to control the damage.

The fire tenders were managing the breakout at the junkyard. (ANI)

Chocolate milk after a hard swim could give swimmers a performance edge

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A new research suggests that grabbing chocolate milk after a hard swim could give swimmers a performance edge.

In a sport where seconds and even tenths of a second can make a big difference and intense practice routines are the norm, Indiana University researchers found that when collegiate, trained swimmers recovered with chocolate milk after an exhaustive swim, they swam faster in time trials later that same day.

Club vs Country: Sunil Narine in a fix over playing IPL final

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The raging ‘Club versus Country’ debate today again came to the forefront as ace spinner Sunil Narine faces a possible exclusion from the Test team, if he plays the IPL final for KKR thereby failing to meet the deadline joining the West Indies camp latest by June 1.
The West Indies are scheduled to play their first Test against New Zealand at Kingston in Jamaica from June 8.

Indian-Americans spell history, are co-champions in US Spelling Bee

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Two Indian American youngsters made history as Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe were declared co-champions in the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest after 52 years and for just the fourth time in the contest’s history.

“Whatever,” said Sujoe, 13, 7th grader from Fort Worth, Texas, as the seconds ticked down at the contest at the National Harbour Thursday night.

He couldn’t get the word, “feuilleton,” out of his mouth, but he spelled it correctly.

Australian woman cons old men

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A woman was arrested for a romance scam that netted more than AU$2 million($1.86 million) from elderly men, media reported Friday.

The 39-year-old mother of four was arrested Thursday at her home in Sydney after she targeted the men on dating websites, Xinhua reported.

Although she received welfare benefits, she allegedly lived the high life on the proceeds from her crimes and splurged on sports cars, holidays and plastic surgery.

Three victims gave her money without even meeting her while one interstate businessman, had a sexual relationship with her.

Senior Colombian police officer’s daughter kidnapped

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The 10-year-old daughter of a police chief in Colombia’s Padilla town has been kidnapped by a group of armed men, authorities said.

The abduction occurred about 7 a.m. Thursday in the town of Guachene, near Padilla, when the girl was going to school and was intercepted by the kidnappers in the presence of several of her friends.

Sensex trades flat; capital goods, oil and gas rally

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A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at – 19.37 points or 0.08 percent up – Friday as capital goods and oil and gas stocks rally.

Good buying was observed in capital goods, oil and gas and metal sectors, while selling pressure was seen in banking sector.

The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 24,300.99 points, was trading at 24,253.52 points in the early session, up 19.37 points or 0.08 percent from the previous day’s close at 24,234.15 points.

Radio journalist murdered in Honduras

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The host of a programme on a radio station in Honduras was found fatally shot, a spokesman for the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner told Efe.

The killing of Hernan Cruz, 52, brings to 43 the number of media workers slain in Honduras since 2003, the spokesman said.

Cruz was discovered shot to death inside a taxi in Santa Rosa de Copan, 450 km west of Honduras’s caital Tegucigalpa.

The victim, who owned several taxis, hosted a news and opinion programme on a radio station in San Juan de Opoa, where he once served as a justice of peace.

Reliance Industries to buy Network 18 for Rs 4,000 cr

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In the biggest ever deal in the Indian media sector, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will acquire control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd, for Rs 4,000 crore.

The Board of RIL on Thursday approved funding of up to Rs 4,000 crore to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary, for acquisition of control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd (NW18), including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd (TV18), the company said in a statement.