Month: June 2014

Celebrities like Beyonce Knowles, Angelina Jolie and Rihanna have been giving sparkling accents to their knuckles by wearing midi rings. So how about trying your hand at it?

If bold cocktail rings are out of style for you, try the midi rings in various styles to up the attractive quotient of your fingers.

The little jewellery pieces, available on highstreetshop.net, are available in an array of style like in the shape of bows, crown and many more, said a statement.

Wear the must have accessory – midi rings after a nice nail art to beautify your hands.
(IANS)

The authorities here Sunday ordered registration of police complaint against 11 school teachers, including six women, who did not turn up for duty to register new voters, an official said.

Teachers from various government schools here were deputed as block level officers for registration of new voters in Badshahpur assembly seat.

“School teachers Mamta, Suman, Poonam, Veenu, Shakuntla, Alka, Surender Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Deepak Verma and Kuldeep were found absent from their duties,” an official told IANS.

At least eight new-born babies have died since Friday at a government hospital in West Bengal’s Purulia district, an official said Sunday.

Confirming the deaths, Deben Mahato Sadar Hospital superintendent Nilanjana Sen said many of the babies were grossly underweight.

“Eight babies, all of them a few days old, have died in the last 48 hours. But this is not a news as all of them were grossly underweight and vulnerable,” Sen told IANS.

More than a dozen infant deaths took place in the hospital in June last year.
(IANS)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday said Israel is ready to expand its operation against the Islamic Hamas movement.

“Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked multiple targets in Gaza in response to firing at Israel from the Gaza Strip,” Xinhua quoted Netanyahu as saying at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting.

“We are ready to expand this operation as per need,” he added.

Two pilgrims were killed Sunday in a rockfall near the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

The two were identified as Suresh Yadav, 35, resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, and Tara Singh, 26, resident of Punjab’s Bathinda.

“The accident occurred when the Yatris were nearing the cave shrine this morning. Stones rolled down the rocky mountainside hitting and killing the two yatris,” a police officer said.

“The Yatra is, however, continuing normally,” the officer added.
(IANS)

Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has disclosed that he has now renamed his movie “Mirza Sahibaan” as “Mirziya”.

“The film is now going to be called ‘Mirziya’. Just like I made ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ inspired by the life of Milkha Singh, ‘Mirziya’ is only inspired by the folklore,” Mehra told IANS exclusively.

He is here in Jammu and Kashmir as the patron of the Ladakh International Film Festival.

His movie stars newcomers Harshvardhan Kapoor, son of veteran actor Anil Kapoor, and Saiyami Kher, niece of Tanvi Azmi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday greeted the nation on the occasion of “rath yatras” being held across the country. He also greeted people on Ashadhi Bij, the Kutchi new year.

“My warm greetings to the people on the occasion of the rath yatras that would be held across India today. We bow to Lord Jagannath on this auspicious day. Today once again He sets out on His chariot, giving blessings to the people,” he tweeted.

The 180 police stations across Delhi are set to be equipped with the swifter, roomier and cool-looking Toyota Innova vehicles, with the staid old Gypsies being relegated to the background.

Delhi Police already have around 600 of these multi-utility vehicles being used as mobile patrolling vans. Now the Innovas are set to be given to the inspectors heading each of the police stations in the national capital.

Delhi Police have requested the union home ministry to provide Innovas to all station house officers, sources told IANS.

Netherlands midfielder Wesley Sneijder has stressed on his team’s ambition to win the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

“When I start a tournament, I always want to win it and, of course, some are easier to win. Four years ago, for example, it was a tough challenge for us but everything in the group was good and the whole process worked well for us,” Sneijder said, reports EFE.

Hi-tech security systems will soon be installed in three prisons in Delhi, including the Tihar Jail complex, to ensure that surgical blades and other prohibited items are not smuggled inside, the government said Sunday.

“To improve and strengthen the security system in Delhi’s prisons at Tihar, Rohini district jail and the Mandoli jail complex, X-ray based full human body scanners, X-ray baggage scanners, multizone door-frame metal detectors and deep search metal detectors will soon be installed,” said a statement from the Delhi government.

FIFA has announced its satisfaction about the performances delivered in the World Cup group stages.

An average of 2.83 goals were scored per game in the 48 first round matches while fan turnout reached an average of 98 percent with 2,454,377 spectators who went to see the matches, reports EFE.

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said the current edition of the World Cup is one of the best, stressing on the increased passion the tournament has caused, reflected by TV viewership. The World Cup has also become the centre of attention on social networking sites.
(IANS/EFE)

Anurag Kashyap’s “Ugly”, which created waves at the Cannes International Film Festival earlier this year, made its Asia premiere here and left an audience full of filmmakers, army trainees and media, numb with its ‘ugliness’.

The thriller about complex relationships around a tragedy, its underlying connotation and stupendous performances left the audience numb. However, more details about the film’s story cannot be divulged.

Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam will be here next week for discussions with the new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on scaling up bilateral cooperation.

Shanmugam will discuss two-way cooperation in various sectors, including urban development, said Singapore High Commissioner Thuan Kuan.

Thuan Saturday met Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu and conveyed his country’s keenness to collaborate on the sector.

Singapore is the second largest foreign investor in India.

France midfielder Yohan Cabaye has said that facing Nigeria in the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 Monday will not be easy.

“Nigeria is a good team that created problems for Argentina,” said Cabaye, reports EFE.

The Paris Saint-Germain midfielder stressed that his team will have to play a “big game” if they want to go through to the quarterfinals.

“It’s a win or lose situation so there will be no room for mistakes.”

France and Nigeria will face off at the Estadio Nacional here Monday.
(IANS/EFE)

Netherlands assistant coach Patrick Kluivert says his team is not the favourite to win the FIFA World Cup.

“I don’t think Netherlands are the favourites. We have to keep winning to add to our confidence,” Kluivert said, reports EFE.

However, Kluivert added that their staff is optimistic because of the team’s performance in the group stage.

“This is a very important tournament. We have to be very pleased to have obtained qualifying for the knockout stages in the way that we did.”
(IANS/EFE)

Tsunami earthquakes may be caused by extinct undersea volcanoes causing a “sticking point” between tectonic plates when one plate slides under another, says a new research.

The findings have revealed the causes and warning signs of rare tsunami earthquakes. This may lead to improved detection measures.

Tsunami earthquakes happen at relatively shallow depths in the ocean and are small in terms of their magnitude.

However, they create very large tsunamis. Some earthquakes that only measure 5.6 on the Richter scale generate waves that reach up to 10 metres when they hit the shore.

How often have you recommended a product to your friends and acquaintances on Facebook? Most likely, not very often. And what stopped you is a fear of social censorship, claims a new research.

Researchers have found that users of social media websites are less likely to use them to say positive things about their favourite products and services.

Instead, they are more likely to express their opinions about products in intimate face-to-face social situations.

A malaria epidemic has killed at least 55 people, including 46 children, in Tripura this month while thousands have fallen ill, officials said here Sunday.

“At least 55 people, including 46 children, have died in malaria since the first week of June,” a health department spokesperson said.

“Over 70,400 have fallen ill in malaria and fever after the outbreak of the disease. Of the 70,400 ill people, malaria germ was found in the blood of over 12,000,” the spokesperson told reporters.

Actor-producer Riteish Deshmukh, who has two successful films – “Humshakals” and “Ek Villain” – to his credit, says he just went with the flow and that the releases were not planned at all.

Riteish’s character in comedy film “Humshakals” and thriller movie “Ek Villain” are poles apart – the former sees him in the comic role, while for the latter he turned a serial killer.

Billy Connolly’s wife says he was in a lot of pain after doctors missed a blood clot in his thigh, but despite that the comedian was cracking jokes.

The 71-year-old was rushed to a hospital in a taxi after he developed the deadly clot following surgery, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

His wife Pamela Stephenson said: “I knew it was a clot but the doctors weren’t listening to me. Eventually, I spoke to an intern on the phone, who said, ‘Just get him to the hospital right away!'”

It has been quite some time that the Indian telecom industry is talking about the fourth generation (4G) technology but is the market and the subscribers ready for it? Experts feel it will take another couple of years for 4G to gain steam and become a mass product and the ecosystem around it to mature.

So far only Bharti Airtel has launched 4G in India and Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to launch it commercially in 2015. The technology (4G) is intended to provide wireless internet access at a much higher speed than 3G.

Iraq has received the first batch of fighter jets it ordered from Russia to help fight Sunni insurgents, the Iraqi defence ministry said.

BBC quoted the ministry as saying that five Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft would enter service in “three to four days”.

The deal with Russia “was aimed at increasing the firepower of the air force and the rest of the armed forces in order to fight terrorism”, the ministry said.

The insurgents control large swathes of the north and west of Iraq after they started marching over the past three weeks.

Iraq said it received the first batch of Sukhoi warplanes from Russia as it pressed a counter-attack today against Sunni militants whose offensive threatens to tear the country apart.

The arrival of the fighter jets comes with Iraqi forces, backed by aerial cover, pushing to retake the militant-held city of Tikrit and world leaders urging a speeding up of government formation following elections in April.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has adopted a lion cub in Nairobi National Park as a sign of support for efforts against the trafficking of animals around the world.

“I adopted this lion cub with the hope that all human beings and animals can live in peace and harmony,” Ban told reporters Saturday in the Kenyan capital.

“Human beings should know how to live harmoniously with mother nature,” he said.
(IANS/WAM)

Observing that conventional warfare has given way to cyber warfare, former union IT minister Arun Shourie Sunday lamented India’s “unpreparedness” and called for firewalling strategic establishments.

Laying the foundation stone of the R.C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) here, Shourie called for more such centres to develop India’s indigenous capabilities in information security.