Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people today, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coalition after April elections. Iraq is going through its worst protracted spell of violence since it emerged from a brutal Sunni-Shiite conflict that killed tens of thousands in 2006 and 2007, with near-daily attacks plaguing Baghdad and much of the north and west.
In a cross between the kebabs of Lahore and Lucknow, the tanginess of the North-West and the mildly spicy Awadhi came on the same platter in the unique ‘Nawab ki pasand’ fusion food festival here.
“From Komal Gandhar, defining the raga in the morning, to Jugalbandi our endeavour has been to take the foodie into a culinary expedition from the Nizam land to the empire of Nawabs in Awadh and Pashtun land through fusion kebabs hunting centuries old recipes of royal kichens,” reputed Mughal cuisine chef Debashis Kundu told PTI here.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao Tuesday directed officials to make Hyderabad a world class city by developing infrastructure to meet the requirements till 2050.
A day after taking over as the chief minister of the new state, Rao held a review meeting with the officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, asked the officials to focus on infrastructure development to attract more information technology companies.
TDP president and chief minister-in-waiting Nara Chandrababu Naidu today called upon party leaders to work in a manner that would not affect the confidence of people who trusted the party.
TDP Parliamentary Party meeting was held at NTR trust bhavan to elect floor leader and deputy leader in Parliament. The meeting authorized the party chief to select TDPP leaders. In the meeting, the party leaders also discussed on the outcome in the recent general elections.
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has been honoured with the “ACI Director General’s Roll of Excellence” award by the Airport Council International (ACI), in recognition of the airport being among the top three airports in the world for five consecutive years.
RGIA has now become the only airport in India to have received the distinction, said a statement from GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), which operates the airport.
The CBI on Tuesday submitted a list of 18 witnesses to be examined during the initial period of trial in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case.
The trial will begin on June 23 in the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court here and the 18 prosecution witnesses will be examined in the first six days.
“We have provided a list of 18 witnesses to be called by the court from our side. They will be examined from June 23 to 28,” said CBI counsel Ashok Joshi.
Senior BJP leader and former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh today said President’s Rule needs to be imposed in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that the state government has lost the moral right to remain in power in the wake of the gang rape and murder of two minor girls.
“UP Government is telling a lie… It has not yet sent the letter recommending CBI inquiry into the gang rape of two innocent girls… It is heartless,” Singh who arrived here to meet the family members of the victims, along with seven BJP MPs, told reporters.
Congress today termed as “very significant” Sonia Gandhi’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for assistance to Seemandhra, saying the UPA government made many commitments for the residual state and now it was for the NDA to implement them.
“Our commitment is to the people of Andhra Pradesh… constructively to ensure that the promises that we made, which
was passed by Parliament. This is what the letter of the Congress President said. It is a very significant letter,”
party leader Jairam Ramesh said.
The monsoon is on schedule and is expected to hit Kerela in the next 48 hours, according to Met department.
“Conditions are favourable for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala and its further advance into some more parts of south Arabian sea, remaining parts of Maldives- Comorin area, some parts of Tamil Nadu and some more parts of Bay of Bengal during the next 48 hours.
“Conditions are also favourable for advance of southwest monsoon into some parts of northeastern states during the next 72 hours,” said a statement by the Indian Meterological Department.
Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust on Tuesday accused some AAP activists, led by its convener Arvind Kejriwal, of creating a “ruckus” at its premises and holding a press conference without prior permission from district administration.
Secretary of the trust, S K Mukerjee said that he would report the matter to the police for further legal action against the AAP activists.
Meanwhile, Kejriwal has described the incident as “highly unfortunate” and assured that the party will take care to avoid such incidents in future.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is all set to make it to national capital Delhi for two days.
After being sworn in as Chief Minister, KCR is making a maiden trip to Delhi where he would stay on June 6 and 7. It is likely that he may call on President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seek their continuous assistance for 29th State development.
On the other hand, Parliament is beginning from June 4. Mainly the CM is likely to register his opposition to Polavarm Ordinance which is against the interests of Telangana people and government.
Founder of Sulabh International, Bindeshwar Pathak is seeking help from billionaires across the world for funding his ambitious plan for safe and accessible toilets for every household in India.
“We plan to raise USD 2 billion for a new sanitation movement in India. With the help of 690 rich people we will cover all the 690 districts of India,” Pathak who has designed ‘Sulabh’ toilets told reporters here.
To begin with, Reliance head Mukesh Ambani’s wife Neeta has been contacted to donate to the project.
Former minister K Jana Reddy has been elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party in the Telangana State Legislative Assembly.
Jana was unanimously elected during the CLP meeting held in Assembly premises here on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh, former Union Minister Vylar Ravi and AICC Secretaries – RC Khuntia and Thirunavakkarasu. Zaheerabad MLA Dr J Geetha Reddy proposed Jana Reddy’s name for the top post and it was supported by T Jeevan Reddy and Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
Finance Minister Etela Rajender today directed officials concerned to purchase rotten and discolored seed under the effect of untimely rains.
Talking to media persons at Secretariat, Etela said the government has asked the Civil Supplies department to provide immediate succor to farmers suffering huge crop loss.
He said the government would hold discussions with Bankers on loan waiver announced for farmers in Telangana State.
We will talk to lead bankers tomorrow and take a decision on waiver of Rs 1 lakh loans promised for the farming community.
TRS leader and Chevella MP Konda Vishveshwar Reddy on Tuesday expressed his happiness over the AV College getting NAAC recognition for second time.
Speaking on the occasion, Vishveshwar Reddy recalled that AV College students actively participated in the Telangana agitation. He also praised the AV college management for providing all amenities as well as high standards of teaching leading to the NAAC recognizing AV College as “A” grade college.
Former England captain David Beckham has hinted that he could come out of retirement and resume his football career.
“Now I go to watch a basketball game and, when you are watching athletes play at the top of their game, for me it gives me that itch again,” he said in a documentary to be broadcast by the BBC on Monday.
“I want to be back in the game then and I start thinking to myself, ‘Could I play again? Could I go back? Could I come out of retirement and start playing again?'”
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim bail of Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal till June 27. Tejpal, an accused in a sexual assault case, was released on interim bail after five months in jail to enable him to perform the last rites of his mother who died on May 18.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister for Rural Development Gopinath Munde who died tragically in a road accident this morning, had said last night that there was no rivalry between the BJP and its key ally, the Shiv Sena over the issue of who would be the next chief minister of Maharashtra. Speaking to ANI yesterday, in what would be his last television interview, Munde said, “If the Shiv Sena gets more people (elected representatives), then they will get the chief ministerial position, and we have no opposition to it.
Astronomers have discovered a new type of planet – a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth.
Theorists believed such a world couldn’t form because anything so hefty would grab hydrogen gas as it grew and become a Jupiter-like gas giant. This planet, though, is all solids and much bigger than previously discovered “super-Earths,” making it a “mega-Earth.”
Astronomer Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), who led the data analysis and made the discovery, said they were very surprised when they realized what they had found.
Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that there was no plan of her party joining the BJP -led NDA government at the Centre as they were already having enough numbers on their own.
Commenting on a question as to whether she would consider joining the NDA, Jayalalithaa said, “There are no such proposals or talks. The NDA has got an independent majority, for that matter the BJP has its own, they do not need outside support.”
NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to fly from the US Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight.
The first launch opportunity for the test vehicle is June 3, when the launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. HST.
Michael Gazarik, associate administrator for Space Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said the agency is moving forward and getting ready for Mars as part of NASA’s Evolvable Mars campaign.
He said that they have two more vehicles in the works for next year.
A study has warned against use of Resveratrol supplements, which is a plant compound found in the skin of red grapes and in peanuts and berries, among other plants by pregnant women.
The study revealed that a widely available dietary supplement that had been considered safe – and that some claim provides anti-aging and other health benefits – caused significant developmental abnormalities in the pancreas of offspring of pregnant monkeys who were given the supplement.
The 32-year-old driver of the cab, which hit Union Minister Gopinath Munde’s car in the wee hours here today at an intersection leading to his death, was allegedly speeding and had jumped the red light, according to police.
“An FIR has been registered against Gurvinder Singh under section 279 (rash and negligent driving) and 304(A)(causing death by negligence) at Tughlak Road Police Station and he was arrested after prima facie he was found at fault of jumping the red light and over speeding,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) SBS Tyagi.
Six women and a girl were killed while 25 others sustained injuries when the concrete roof of a building collapsed in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district today, police said.
The incident occurred at around 12:30 PM at Nawabpet village in Mylavaram mandal of the district when the roof of the single-storeyed building, from where a group of people were watching a cremation procession, gave way, killing six women and a girl aged around 10 years, Jammalamadugu ASP Venkata Appala Naidu told PTI.
He said 25 others were injured in the incident.
Two women in the UK who admitted allowing their hungry dog to maul a 79-year-old man to death in his garden have been jailed for a year. Hayley Sulley, 30, and Della Woods, 29, both of Liverpool were charged under the Dangerous Dogs Act, after retired hospital porter Clifford Clarke died in May 2013. Clarke was “eaten alive” by the dog, which had not been fed for 45 hours, when he opened his back door.
Judge Mark Brown said Clarke’s death was “entirely avoidable” and he was “literally eaten alive” as he died in