Actor Suniel Shetty might be popular for bashing up the bad guys or doing stunts on the big screen, but the father of two is quite comfortable with children and this helped in filming his forthcoming movie “Koyelaanchal” smoothly.
Directed by Asshu Trikha, the film, releasing Friday, is a tale of the coal mafia and also stars Vinod Khanna.
A Bangladeshi court today dismissed a plea by a pro-Jamaat-e-Islami organisation to retain possession of legendary Bengali actress Suchitra Sen’s home in Pabna city.
A bench headed by Supreme Court Justice S K Sinha issued the order, clearing all legal hurdles that existed in recovering Sen’s ancestral home at Hem Sagar Lane in the city.
There is now no legal bar to evict the Imam Ghazali Institute from the home, said Additional Attorney General Murad Reza, bdnews24.Com reported.
The Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) will be held on May 22 and the results will be announced on June 2.
According to EAMCET co-convener K Eshwar Prasad, elaborate arrangements are being made for the smooth conduct of the test. The candidates can download the hall tickets online from May 8. Compared to last year, there has been an increase of about 8,000 applications for medical stream. However, the applications for engineering stream have dropped by nearly 10,000.
A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi refused to back a Third Front, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Sunday said people will have to choose between a Narendra Modi-led NDA or a “chaotic coalition”.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader said the Left parties wanted a split mandate so that they could put together a Third Front.
He also indicated that the Congress’ regional rivals would automatically ally with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
“Rahul Gandhi has categorically said that his party would not support the Third Front,” Jaitley said in a blog Sunday.
Affirming that a vote to YSRCP will be a vote for development YS Vijayamma has said she is contesting from this part of the state to ensure the development of north coastal Andhra which is backward like Rayalaseema.
“I appeal you to vote for YSRCP which is committed for development and welfare and also carries the legacy of YSR who has always honoured his commitment unlike Chandrababu Naidu who is not known to keep up his promises,” she said addressing a public meeting as part of the YSR Jana Bheri electioneering here on Sunday.
Two 6-magnitude-plus undersea earthquakes jolted south Fiji Sunday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
A 6.6 magnitude tremor struck from a depth of 527.6 km at 9.15 p.m. local time (0915 GMT), and was traced 722 km south of the Fijian capital of Suva, data showed.
The agency had initially reported the quake at 6.8 magnitude.
Another 6.1 magnitude quake struck from a depth of 610.6 km at 9.25 p.m. local time (0925 GMT), and was traced 848 km south of Suva.
Former MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal, who had created a storm by using pepper spray in Parliament, attacked the Congress saying it would face the consequences of trying to “bulldoze and kill democracy” by hastily passing the Telangana Bill in Lok Sabha.
“You will see in the elections (Congress will do badly), when you try to bulldoze and kill democracy (what happens),” he told PTI last evening.
Roma head coach Rudi Garcia has admitted that the Italian Serie A title race was over already as Juventus are set to win it Monday.
Though Roma scored nine consecutive victories, they could not narrow the eight-point gap with Juventus, who could win the ‘Scudetto’ with a win over Atalanta at home Monday, reports Xinhua.
Garcia said even if Roma win at Catania Sunday, they still would not be able to pressurise Juventus.
Congress today claimed the Gujarat Police was trying to “hush up” the case registered against Narendra Modi for poll code violation and urged the Election Commission to transfer the case to an agency outside the state.
On April 30, an FIR was registered against Narendra Modi by the Gujarat police following an order of the Election Commission which held that he violated the electoral laws.
Narendra Modi today hit out at the Trinamool Congress for claiming to be a do-gooder for Muslims, saying the minority community is far better-off in his state Gujarat than in West Bengal.
Modi claimed that the Sachar Committee report had shown the truth with regard to development of minorities in different states.
“Muslims in West Bengal have to force the TMC government to do politics of development for them instead of indulging in votebank politics,” Modi told an election rally here, continuing the ongoing verbal duel between him and TMC chief and WB chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye Sunday visited the site where passenger ship Sewol sank April 16 claiming at least 230 lives
This was the second time she went there after her visit April 17, Xinhua reported.
Park headed first for the Paengmok port where coast guard ships bring ashore bodies recovered from the sunken ship and let relatives of the missing people identify the bodies.
She met some 50 relatives of the missing passengers inside for about 30 minutes and said she felt an unlimited responsibility for the accident.
Central security agencies have claimed that Pakistan’s ISI had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India with evidence for this reportedly given by a Sri Lankan national, arrested from Chennai, during his interrogation.
Official sources claimed on Sunday that Sakir Hussain, a Sri Lankan national, told his interrogators that he had been hired allegedly by an official in Pakistani high commission in Colombo as part of the ISI’s alleged plans to conduct reconnaissance of US consulate in Chennai and Israeli consulate in Bengaluru.
Two people were killed and three others injured when an old residential building collapsed in Shanghai Sunday, authorities said.
The three-storey brick-and-wood structure crumbled at 4.49 a.m. when nine people were in the building in Hongkou District, Xinhua reported citing local government.
Four people managed to escape while the rest were pulled out by rescuers, the statement said.
Three injured survivors were being treated in a hospital.
An initial investigation showed the accident was caused by a gas explosion.
(IANS)
Police on Sunday said they killed two suspected militants and arrested eight forest guards for their alleged involvement in the killings of 29 Muslims in the worst ethnic violence in Assam in two years.
Four suspected militants hurled a grenade and fired at policemen who ambushed them in a dense forest, said police officer Sanjukta Prashar. Police killed two in an exchange of gunfire and two suspects escaped near Tejpur, a town nearly 80 kilometres north of the region where Muslims were attacked on Thursday and Friday, she said.
Accusing the EC of failing to prevent rigging and violence in West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, BJP leader Narendra Modi Sunday said the poll panel should not work on the basis of “which government has appointed it”.
“I am making a serious complaint against the Election Commission publicly from Asansol… If the commission, in its role of an umpire, has the guts to conduct free and fair polls in the remaining two phases, it must listen to me carefully.
With just 12 days left for the announcement of election results, the Telangana Congress leaders appear to have intensified lobbying for the post of Chief Minister.
India will organise a multi-product Indian catalogue exhibition in a Saudi Arabian city to boost Indian businesses in various sectors in the country.
The Indian embassy, in association with Al-Majmaah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCI), will organise INDIA CATEX, a multi-product catalogue exhibition at Prince Salman Sports city in Al-Majmaah province in Saudi’s Riyadh governorate May 7, an embassy statement said.
The one-day exhibition will showcase a large range of catalogues, CDs and other publicity materials of Indian companies from various sectors of industry and trade.
Complaining of booth rigging in West Bengal, Bihar and western Uttar Pradesh, Narendra Modi today alleged that the Election Commission was not acting impartially and dared it to take action against him.
“Why are you not acting? What is your intention? If you feel wrong about what I am saying now, then you are free to lodge another case against me,” Modi told an election rally here.
“It is your responsibility to ensure impartial polls. I am making very serious allegations,” he said accusing the Election Commission of having failed to take action.
In a fervent appeal to the people to reject opportunist politics and parties that would be puppets in the hands of the Centre, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has said, elect a Party that would have a say in Delhi, will be focused on development and welfare and assured that Polavaram project would be taken up by his government after coming to power.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Mohammad Ahmed Ali on Sunday claimed that the Congress party would form the government on its own in the new State of Telangana.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the services sector declined 54 per cent to USD 2.18 billion during April-February of 2013-14 from a year earlier.
Services such as banking, insurance, outsourcing, R&D, courier and technology testing had received USD 4.74 billion of FDI during April-February 2013, according to data from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
According to experts, foreign investors will move ahead with their decisions once a new government takes over after the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
Country’s economic growth will improve in the coming quarters, but the pace is likely to be gradual due to persistent challenges such as elevated inflation and policy uncertainty, says a report.
According to Deloitte’s ‘Global Economic Outlook’ report, the country’s growth outlook will also hinge on the election outcomes on May 16.
“Economic growth is likely (to) improve in the coming quarters, but the pace of growth may remain gradual because of persistent challenges,” the report said. It said that some challenges have been more persistent in nature.
Actress Kate Hudson, who loves sports, doesn’t mind setting new goals to stay fit.
“I’d like to do a sprint triathlon. I’ve always loved sports. I always felt like I was the athletic type and I always had that thing as a kid,” eonline.com quoted her as saying.
“I really loved setting those kinds of goals for myself… Your bodies are these incredible machines and they can be if you want to use them that way,” she added.
The 35-year-old mother of two has been doing Pilates since she was 19.
US President Barack Obama poked fun at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Republicans and media elites, and even mocked himself for his administration’s disastrous health care policy rollout at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner today.
Obama, donning the role of comedian-in-chief, poked fun at himself over his signature policy initiative and refereed to the technical glitch experienced by healthcare.gov this year. “In 2008 my slogan was, ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, it was control+alt+delete.”
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has recommended a five-point action plan for consideration by the government to address the mounting problem of bad loans in the banking system.
“The five-point action plan focuses upon: Revamping the Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) mechanism; creating a special resolution mechanism for the infrastructure sector; setting up a national asset management company; liberalizing norms to increase capitalization of asset reconstruction companies; and improving the effectiveness of the insolvency regime,” CII said in a statement here Sunday.