Retired Indian security personnel must be allowed to settle along the Bangladesh border to be New Delhi’s “eyes and ears” vis-a-vis illegal migration, a former BSF officer says.
Retired Border Security Force (BSF) Additional Director General PK Mishra also warns that India’s failure to stop the growing illegal influx of Bangladeshis could one day turn Assam into “another Bosnia or Kashmir”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the P5+1 countries not to surrender to Iran ahead of a deadline for a permanent nuclear deal, media reported on Monday.
Netanyahu Sunday said in a statement that Iran should be stripped of its uranium enrichment capacities, Xinhua reported.
According to the statement, Netanyahu said that Iran is “interested in obtaining a surrender agreement from the West”, and that Iran should not get this desired agreement.
The West has demanded that Iran dramatically lower its uranium enrichment capacity to only a few hundred centrifuges.
Following the footsteps of Motorola, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is also teaming up with e-Commerce major Flipkart to launch its handsets in India.
Touted as the ‘Apple’ of China, Xiaomi had launched its official website in India earlier this month, announcing its entry into the fiercely competitive Indian smartphone market in the next few weeks.
According to sources, Xiaomi is expected to bring two smartphones in partnership with Flipkart in the next 2-3 months.
Actress Deeksha Seth is soon going to make her Bollywood debut with `Lekar Hum Deewana Dil` and says that despite her co-star being Armaan Jain – the grandson of late actor-filmmaker Raj Kapoor – she feels secure.
Deeksha made her acting debut in the Telugu drama film “Vedam” in 2010 and went on to feature in quite a few Tamil and Telugu movies like “Rajapattai” and “Wanted”.
Director Mohit Suri, who is married to actress Udita Goswami, says his wife lets him be the way he is and he can`t take away her contribution in his success story.
After last year`s `Aashiqui 2`, Suri has again struck gold with his latest directorial `Ek Villain`, which minted Rs 16.72 crore in India on the opening day (June 27).
Ladies, here’s yet another reason to kick the butt — women who smoke during pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, according to a new study.
“It has long been known that autism is an umbrella term for a wide range of disorders that impair social and communication skills,” said lead author Prof Amy Kalkbrenner from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Vice president of Samsung Knox mobile security group, Jay Shin believes that there was a time when people were moved by branding but now they know better.
One Samsung executive believes people have changed. He thinks people don’t fall for branding anymore, they know much about products, CNET reported.
Shin was speaking at his company’s Business Discovery Day in London and declared that consumers are a lot smarter these days and there’s a lot of information available to them.
The mantle of leadership of one of the largest ethnic organisations in the US – representing about 100,000 Indian doctors settled here – passed on to Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar, the new president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), at their annual convention here that was attended by India’s new health minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan..
Jahagirdar was administered the oath of office by outgoing president Dr. Jayesh Shah during the presidential gala here Saturday at the just concluded 32nd annual convention of AAPI attended by nearly 2,000 delegates from across the US.
Oil prices eased in Asia on Monday on softer United States demand, but tensions in the Middle East, where jihadists have declared an Islamic state straddling Iraq and Syria will likely keep prices high, analysts said.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for August delivery was down 26 cents at US $105.48 a barrel in late-morning trade and Brent crude dropped 22 cents to US $113.08.
The benchmark BSE Sensex spurted nearly 142 points in early trade today on the back of across-the-board buying by funds and retail investors on hopes that the reform measures in next week’s Union Budget will boost the country’s economic growth.
The BSE 30-share barometer, which had gained 37.25 points in Friday’s session, rose 141.73 points, or 0.56%, to 25,241.65 with all the sectoral indices, led by consumer durables, capital goods and power, trading in positive zone with gains up to 0.93%.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek survived a first round scare but Sania Mirza and Cara Black were dumped from the women`s doubles event of the Wimbledon Championships, here.
Fifth seeded Indo-Czeck pair of Paes and Stepanek had to battle for three hours to douse the challenge of Santiago Gonzalez and Scott Lipsky 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-3 11-9 in the rain-hit marathon opening round of the grass court Grand Slam yesterday.
Development in the northeast region is a top priority of the government. Recently, the union agriculture minister has agreed to look into the possibility of setting up new agriculture universities and research centers in the northeast.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has directed the Indian Council for Agricultural Research to study the feasibility of opening agriculture and veterinary universities in the northeastern states.
The R Vinay Kumar-led Karnataka team, which won the Ranji Trophy, was felicitated by the state cricket association for its unprecendented achievement of winning three titles in a single year.
Also felicitated by Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) were six other state squads which had won Ranji Trophy, beginning from EAS Prasanna-led 1973-74 side.
Vinay played a stellar role as captain to win not only this year`s Ranji title after a long wait of 15 years, but also bag the coveted Irani and Vijay Hazare trophies.
Mrs. Salma Ansari wife of Hamid Ansari visited the Beijing Children’s Welfare Institute. She was warmly received by Mr. Zhang the Director of BCWI, who said he that was deeply touched by Smt. Ansari’s keen interest to visit the children’s welfare institute.
Mrs. Ansari is actively involved in education, especially special education for over three decades. She has started four schools for underprivileged children in Aligarh and Delhi, India which currently benefit over 2000 children.
Security forces and Maoists on Monday exchanged gunfire near Badkitand village in Giridih district.
Jawans of the CRPF’s 26th battalion rushed to the village after getting information that the rebels had assembled there, Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar said.
On sighting the security force, the left-wing guerrillas fired at them and in the strong retaliatory action the Maoists retreated deeper into the forests, Kumar said.
There was no loss of life on either side.
Two persons were killed and another injured when their car collided with a truck near Sindhawli village on the Delhi-Haridwar National Highway in the district, police said on Monday.
The accident took place yesterday when the victims were returning to Delhi from Haridwar.
The deceased have been identified as 35-year-old Deep Chand and 40-year-old Anoop Negi.
The injured identified as Pradeep has been referred to a hospital in Delhi.
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Researchers have discovered a new form of neurotransmission that influences long-lasting memory created by addictive drugs like cocaine and opioids and the craving for them.
Loss of this type of neurotransmission creates changes in brain cells that resemble the changes caused by drug addiction.
The findings suggest that targeting this type of neurotransmission might lead to new therapies for treating drug addiction.
“Molecular therapies for drug addiction are pretty much non-existent,” said Collin Kreple from the University of Iowa in the US.
In a path-breaking research which may have implications for those suffering from a decline of their cognitive and hearing abilities, Indian and American experts have established the role of a specific gene in triggering such conditions.
Experts of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and University of Louisville School of Medicine stated that the MMP-9 gene plays a major role in causing decline of cognitive and hearing functions and removal of the said gene decreases Hyperhomocysteinemia-induced cognitive and hearing dysfunctions.
Actress Jennifer Aniston, popular for sporting caramel-coloured tresses, had turned brunette for “Cake” movie. But now she has gone back to being blonde.
The 45-year-old recently hit the red carpet with longtime love Justin Theroux and showed off lightened locks with subtle highlights.
The new look has been created by Hollywood colourist Michael Canale of Canale Salon.
“Chris McMillan and I worked together to bring Jen’s brunette bob back to her trademark sandy blonde tresses again,” Canale was quoted by usmagazine.com as saying.
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Vice president of India Mr. Hamed Ansari on Sunday said “The imperatives of the 21st century propel us towards a better understanding of each other’s objectives and more purposeful cooperation for mutual benefit. Greater interaction between the people of our two countries, in all fields, is a necessary condition for stronger overall bilateral relations,” Citing the presence of nearly 10 thousand Indian students in China and setting up of 50 companies Hamed Ansari said it is the best starting point to work unitedly and expand mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
One of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, Mount Sinabung, has erupted with a powerful burst of hot ash, a media report said Monday.
According to officials, the eruption occurred late Sunday with 4,000 metre high column of ash spewed to the sky, Xinhua reported.
Mount Sinabung located in Sumatra had erupted intermittently from September to February after being dormant for 400 years, left 15 people dead and more than 30,000 displaced.
“Until now, the number of evacuees have escalated to 14,382,” an official said.
Concerned about gullible investors being defrauded by certain companies existing only on paper, capital markets watchdog Sebi is planning to conduct surprise inspections of such entities to bring them to book.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is working on a comprehensive framework to deal with the listing and trading of only-on-paper companies and tackle this menace, a senior official said.
The cotton textile industry has a potential to invest up to Rs 4,000 crore leading to generation of 50,000 new jobs if the government accepts the sector’s demands in the forthcoming Budget, a top industry official has said.
“We have urged the government that Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) should be extended during the blackout period from June 29, 2010 to April 27, 2011, when the scheme was suspended to all cases which have been left out for no fault of the industry,” Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (Texprocil) Deputy Chairman R K Dalmia told PTI here.
The IIT 2014 Global Conference, an annual meeting of IIT alumni worldwide, is scheduled to be held here from December 19 to December 21.
To be held in the city for the first time, the conference would see participation of more than 3,000 IIT alumni working in diverse fields around the world, its organisers said here today.
In a relief to hundreds of students, the Delhi University was on Sunday directed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to continue with the fouryear BTech programme for those admitted in academic year 2013-14, bringing to an end the uncertainty following rollback of the controversial four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).
The directive by the UGC came even as scores of BTech and BMS students of DU staged a protest outside the residence of human resource development minister Smriti Irani, demanding that their four-year courses should not be scrapped.