Month: June 2014

The countdown for the launch of an Indian rocket Monday morning that will carry five foreign satellites is progressing smoothly, the Indian space agency ISRO said Sunday.

According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the countdown for the launch of rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C23) Monday 9.52 a.m is progressing smoothly.

The 49-hour countdown for the rocket’s flight started Saturday morning at India’s rocket port in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh around 80 km from here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to witness the rocket launch.

Four new polio cases have been detected in Pakistani areas bordering Afghanistan, a media report said Sunday.

Three of the cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one in North Waziristan, Dawn online quoted health officials as saying.

According to the Prime Minister’s Montoring and Coordination Cell for Polio, the families of the three children refused to have them vaccinated.

The fourth child, a two-year-old from Miramshah in North Waziristan, was not immunised due to the Taliban’s ban on vaccinations.

Around 100 Delhi University students Sunday protested at Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani’s house here against the scrapping of a four-year undergraduate course.

The students are pursuing B.Tech and BMS courses. With the university reverting back to the three-year undergraduate programme, these students who opted for the four-year course feel they face an uncertain future.

The six B.Tech and Bachelors of Honours in Management Studies (BMS) courses will be rolled back and there will be no fresh admissions to them, the university said Saturday.

–IANS

Is Rs.50 greater than Rs.60? Or for that matter can it be greater than even Rs.170? Yes, if you go by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Not the ones to spare the UPA government at the centre in the past one decade on the “meagre” increase in the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy and wheat, the Badals have chosen to remain quiet when the successor NDA government announced the latest MSP for paddy.

Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal bagged the USD 750,000 Australian Open Super Series women’s single title as she defeated World Number 11 Carolina Marin in a straight-game victory on Sunday.

Nehwal won the final in 43 minutes as she thrashed Spain’s Marin 21.18, 21-11 in Sydney.

This is Nehwal’s second title of the year, having won the Indian Open Grand Prix Gold in Delhi earlier. (ANI)

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said India and the US have agreed to implement a foreign tax compliance law and asked banks and financial institutions to register by this year-end to report accounts and assets held by US citizens.

India and the US have agreed to implement Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a US law that targets tax non-compliance by US taxpayers with foreign accounts. The Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on FATCA, which came into effect on April 11, will be signed only after Cabinet approval.

Chennai rose to nine on Sunday as four more bodies were recovered from the rubble, police said.

While the five bodies kept in a private hospital in Porur were identified on Sunday morning, another four bodies kept in Royapettah Government Hospital were yet to be identified, police said. Of the nine killed, three are women, they said, adding, a total of 18 persons have been rescued and are being treated in two government hospitals – 17 in a private hospital in Porur and one in Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao Saturday called for conferring Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, on former prime minister, the late P.V. Narasimha Rao.

Paying rich tributes to the late leader on his 93rd birth anniversary, the chief minister said the state cabinet would pass a resolution urging the central government to confer Bharat Ratna.

ACB sleuths caught A Subba Reddy assistant Geologist and Murli Royalty inspector office assistant director Mines and Geology SPSR, Nellore district. According to details they had demanded and accepted Rs. 80000 from the complainant for issue of release orders of lorries. Both the officers have been arrested and they will be produced before special judge for SPE & ACB cases Nellore.

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Bangaru Telangana dream was seen by minorities before formation of Telangana, but following the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in two states, the manner adopted by the government with regard to distribution of departments poses thereat of discrepancy to minorities of Telangana. The committee formed by the government in connection with distribution of budget, assets and staff had proposed 58 pc share to Seemandhra and 42 share to Telangana. Although this ratio may be true for other departments but for Minority Welfare Department this ratio tantamount to injustice with Telangana.

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Showing exceptional goodwill gesture Chinese President Xi Jinpin invited four journalists from the Indian delegation which is on its tour to China, for dinner. The invitees include Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan managing editor Siasat daily, correspondents of ETV, Times Now and Tribune. On the occasion Chinese journalist showed interest in Islam and Muslims. He asked several questions regarding Islam and Namaz and fasting. Besides asking about the basic teachings of Islam, he asked how Muslims keep fast and what is the reason behind it. He also wanted to know about Namaz.

Russia has rejected the unabated terrorism existing the Arab region, as the country’s visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said here Saturday that his country will not stand idly toward the rampant terrorism in the region.

“Russia will not stand idly toward some groups’ attempts to spread terrorism in the region, including Syria and Iraq,” Xinhua quoted Ryabkov telling in a press conference in Damascus, without elaborating how his country would react to such issues.

Four Egyptian recruits were killed Saturday in an ambush set by anti-government extremists in the country’s North Sinai governorate, a security source said.

“The four recruits were coming back to the peninsula after a holiday and were not in security uniform,” the source said while speaking about the attack which occurred in Rafah city. “The extremist militants stopped them in an ambush, checked their identities, forced them out of the vehicle, and shot them dead.”

A woman was allegedly stripped and forced to walk around naked while her husband was severely beaten up for opposing “local goons” in Andryan village of Jehanabad area here.

The couple was allegedly made to go through the ordeal by Shanti Swarup and his associates on June 24 after they objected to trees being uprooted from their fields and damaging of their hut by the accused, police said.

“The couple was subjected to severe beating and the woman was forced to move around in the village naked,” police said.

A local court has sentenced a man to 10 years’ imprisonment for helping his nephew rape his wife so that she could conceive and give birth to a baby.

The nephew was also given a 10-year jail term.

Apart from the rigorous imprisonment, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 each on Raju and his nephew Naveen.

According to the prosecution, on January 12, 2010, Naveen raped Raju’s wife at the couple’s residence, with Raju holding her down.

Both were arrested by Narayanaguda police after the victim lodged a complaint.

The toll in the deadly blast and fire, apparently caused by leakage from a GAIL gas pipeline here on Saturday rose to 17, even as Andhra Pradesh police registered a case of negligence against the state-run firm.

Two persons, including a girl, succumbed to injuries today. The condition of five among the 20 injured who have received around 80 per cent burns remains critical, police said.

“A 4-year-old girl and a man died today at a private hospital in Kakinada. With this the toll has risen to 17,” East Godavari District Superintendent of Police G Vijay Kumar told PTI.

Five-time champion Serena Williams suffered her earliest Wimbledon exit since 2005 as she lost to France’s Alize Cornet in the third round here Saturday.

Cornet, ranked 24th, won 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 to claim her second victory of the year over the world number one, reports Xinhua.

It is only the third time in 15 visits to Wimbledon that Williams has lost so early, and she has not been past the fourth round of a Grand Slam in 2014.

Cornet, 24, had never before beaten a top-20 player at a Grand Slam.

Chinese President Xi Jinping Saturday called for greater democracy in international relations.

“We should uphold fairness and justice to build a new type of international relations,” Xinhua quoted the president as saying while delivering a speech at a commemoration marking the 60th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence held in Beijing.

He urged the international community to carry forward the principles to build a new type of international relations and a better world in the new era.

As a contingency measure for evacuating Indians trapped in Iraq, an Indian warship has been deployed in the Persian Gulf and kept on standby, defence ministry sources said.

INS Mysore, a Delhi-class guided-missile destroyer, reached the Persian Gulf Saturday.

West Indies were closing in on first innings lead despite losing three wickets in the first session on the third day of the decisive third cricket Test against New Zealand here Saturday.

At the interval, the West Indies were 240 for five, just 53 runs adrift of New Zealand’s first innings of 293 made on Thursday’s first day at Kensington Oval, reports CMC.

However, the hosts suffered a huge blow on the stroke of lunch when veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul was caught behind for 15, ending a promising 35-run, fifth wicket stand with captain Denesh Ramdin, who was batting on 20.

Hours after saying that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi does not have the temperament to rule, party general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday defended the Gandhi scion, saying that he is fighting injustice not chasing power.

After receiving critisism over this remark from party workers, clarifying in Bangalore, Singh later told reporters, “No, I said he (Rahul) is always fighting against injustice and therefore he is not for power. He fights injustice. That is the difference between us and him.”

A middle-aged man was on Saturday arrested for allegedly raping his 19-year-old niece in Noida.

Police said the accused, Ranjit, raped his niece at his residence last evening when his wife went to the market.

The girl narrated the incident to her aunt after she returned home. The woman took the girl to the police station this morning and filed a complaint, following which Ranjit was arrested.

Police said the girl had been sent for medical examination.

—PTI