Gujarat Chief Minister Anandi Patel today expressed hope that the NDA government led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would soon allow installation of gates at the Narmada dam.
Speaking at Krushi Mahotsav (farm fest) held at Chhota Udepur, about 130 km from here, Patel said permission to
install gates at the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam was expected very soon, and the installation work should take two and a
The first batch of 500 Indians, mostly students, are leaving violence-hit Ukrainian city of Lugansk to Kyiv Tuesday as India made arrangements to evacuate close to 1000 of its nationals from that city, the biggest such exercise after thousands of Indians were evacuated from Libya in 2011.
The evacuation arrangements were made in cooperation with the Ukrainian government, the Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry said in New Delhi.
According to officials, Indian authorities have arranged 500 train tickets for today to evacuate the Indian nationals.
With onion prices showing a marginal rise in some parts, the new government is closely watching the trend and is likely to restrict exports if the vegetable gets abnormally costlier.
Onions are costlier by Rs 5/kg in retail markets in most cities as compared to the last year prices. The vegetable is selling at Rs 21/kg in Delhi, Rs 22/kg in Kolkata and 27/kg in Mumbai, as per official data.
When asked about onion prices, Consumer Affairs Secretary Keshav Desiraju told PTI: “The retail price at this point of time has increased marginally as compared to last year level.
Founder of Sulabh sanitation movement Bindeshwar Pathak today said he would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi explaining how rapes could be controlled by building toilets for women who make themselves vulnerable to attacks by defecating in the open.
“This is the only measure as if they do not have toilets in the home and they have to go outside, even at night. If toilets are going to be built then our women would be more safe,” Pathak told reporters here.
Ford shows off ‘smart’ Mustang at Taiwan tech showUS auto giant Ford showed off its new Mustang at Asia`s biggest tech fair Tuesday, billing it as “the smartest Mustang to date”, with voice controls and early warning collision systems.
Due to go on sale in Asia-Pacific in 2015, the slick sports car can connect to drivers` mobile apps using a platform which will be introduced to Taiwan, New Zealand and Thailand next year for the first time, the company announced at the Computex conference in Taipei.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal today said the outcome of the recent Lok Sabha polls in Punjab showed that the people were disillusioned with the SAD-BJP government and exuded confidence his party would form the next government in the state.
The mandate given by the voters to the AAP in the recent Lok Sabha polls in Punjab amply showed that people were fed up with the ruling SAD-BJP regime, he told reporters here.
The AAP bagged four Lok Sabha seats in Punjab without money power and would form the next government in the state, Kejriwal said.
Japanese car giant Honda plans to nearly double sourcing of auto components, including engine parts, from India to over Rs 800 crore during 2014-15.
The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) is also planning to double exports of vehicles from the country to other parts of the world.
“We are targeting to increase our component exports and it will be nearly doubled. It will cross Rs 800 crore during the current fiscal,” HCIL Senior Vice President (Marketing and Sales) Jnaneswar Sen.
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Mirage jet on a training mission crashed on Tuesday at a bus terminal on the outskirts of the city, killing at least four persons, including both the pilots.
The fighter plane crashed into the bus terminal in the Yousuf Goth neighbourhood and those killed included both pilots and two civilians.
Sajid Sadozai, a senior police official, said two buses parked at the terminal were destroyed while another was damaged. A number of nearby buildings also suffered structural damage.
Eight people on the ground were injured in the incident.
Ingredients
½ cup of granulated sugar
½ cup of brown sugar
½ cup of peanut butter (chunky optional)
¼ cup of shortening
¼ cup butter softened
1 egg
1 ¼ cup of all purpose flour
¾ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
1 cup of sliced almonds
¼ tsp salt
Directions
Mix wet ingredients peanut butter, shortening and egg and butter in a bowl.
In a bigger bowl add sugar, salt and flour and almonds.
Add baking powder and baking soda into the dry ingredients.
Now mix all wet ingredients in dry ingredients, add slowly and mix well.
Ingredients
1 big Onion (chopped)
2-3 Green chillies (chopped)
1/2 tsp Green Chilli paste
2 tsp Cumin seeds (jeera)
3-4 tbsp Coriander leaves (Cilantro)
2-3 Curry leaves (finely chopped)
2-3 Mint leaves (finely chopped – optional)
2 tsp Salt
2 tsp Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Dry Yeast
2 tbsp Unsalted Butter
3 tbsp Vegetable Oil
3/4 cup Water
1 cup Maida (All purpose flour)
1 cup Whole Wheat flour
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Ingredients
1 pound chicken kheema
2 tblsn ginger garlic paste
1 tablespoon dhania powder
1 tablesponn zeera powder
1 tspn haldi
1/2 cup kasoori methi or feresh chooped methi leaves
8-10 baby eggplants round
dhania leaves chopped
2 medium chopped onions
1 medium chopped potato
chilly powder as per your taste
salt as per your taste
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The BSE benchmark Sensex today jumped by nearly 174 points to end the day at all-time closing high of 24,858.59 as sentiment remained positive after the RBI pleased markets by unlocking about Rs 40,000 crore of banking funds by cutting the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR).
Boosting investor sentiment, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also allowed foreign portfolio investors to participate in the domestic exchange traded currency derivatives markets.
Brokers said eight core sector industries posting a 4.2 per cent growth in April also buoyed markets..
At least 18 Indian pilgrims were killed and 53 others injured when an overloaded bus carrying them veered off a mountain road and rolled about 100 meters before plunging into a river in western Nepal, officials said on Tuesday.
“All 18 people who died in the accident were Indian nationals, mostly from Uttar Pradesh,” Chief District Administrator Ram Bahadur Purumbang told PTI. A total of 56 people were injured in the accident when the bus plunged into the Madi Khola rive river in Pyuthan district, 750 km west of Kathmandu last night.
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10 Answer State – “Uttar-Pradesh”
11 Make Juice – “Bana-Ras”
12 Do Drama – “Kar-Natak”
13 Green Gate – “Hari-Dwar”.
Overwhelmed by the support his team received from the fans, Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan today said he has never seen such enormous backing for a team.
Close one lakh people turned up to watch felicitation of the newly crowned IPL champions by the state government.
“I don’t think any other state or country in the world has this kind of support for their sporting heroes. Many many thanks to all of you. Thank you Kolkata for supporting us for our second win,” he said at the team’s felicitation at the Eden Gardens, organised by the state government and CAB.
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England midfielder Frank Lampard has said he will leave Chelsea after 13 years in service.
The 35-year-old has not agreed to a new deal with the Premier League team. He did not reveal Monday which club he will sign, reports Xinhua.
Lampard is currently with England in Miami for two World Cup warm-up matches before travelling to Brazil Saturday.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday wrote to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi condoling the sudden demise of union minister Gopinath Munde. Bangladesh has “lost a good friend”, she said.
“You have lost a distinguished political leader and we have lost a good friend of Bangladesh,” Hasina said in a message.
Hasina said she was “deeply saddened and shocked to learn about the sudden and most unfortunate passing away of Munde” and extended condolences “to the government and the people of India and to the members of the bereaved family”.
Elections for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Congress-ruled Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh will be held June 19, officials said Tuesday.
The tenure of sitting Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram, Lalhming Liana of opposition Mizo National Front (MNF), will end July 18 while the term of incumbent upper house member from Arunachal Pradesh, Mukut Mithi, ended May 26.
Last month the Congress returned to power in Arunachal Pradesh securing 42 seats in the sixty member house. In Mizoram, the Congress has 33 legislators in the 40-member assembly.
The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed as “misconceived” and “non-maintainable” a plea by residents of Mumbai’s Campa Cola Housing Society to restrain BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation from evicting them.
The apex court bench of Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan, dismissing the plea, said the petitioners have held back from it the details of earlier proceedings and orders passed by it (apex court) in the matter.
Filmmaker-actor Mahesh Manjrekar, who shot and completed the Hindi-Tamil version of his Marathi film “Kaksparsh” while contesting the Lok Sabha election as a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) candidate, says that he remade the film becuse the issue of widow marraige is relevant everywhere.
“It was tough. But I am first and foremost a filmmaker. Even if I had won the elections, I would’ve continued to make films. Even while I was fighting election, I was a filmmaker first,” said Manjrekar who lost the election.
“Kaksparsh” is Manjrekar’s first Hindi film in four years.
The Indian challenge came to an end at the French Open after Sania Mirza and partner Cara Black lost their women’s doubles quarter-final here Tuesday.
The fifth seeded Indo-Zimbabwean combine went down 2-6, 6-3, 3-6 to top seeds Su-Wei Hsieh (Chinese Taipei) and Shuai Peng (China) in two hours on Court No.1.
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A benchmark index of Indian equities markets rose 173.74 points or 0.70 percent Tuesday, striking a new closing high of 24,858.59 points. Metal, oil and gas and capital goods stocks gained the most.
The market, which was trading cautiously ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) bi-monthly monetary policy review, started falling soon after the apex bank left key interest rates unchanged. However, the bank’s decision to cut the liquidity ratio requirement for banks helped correct the sentiment.
Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit says both her recent films ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ and ‘Gulab Gang’ may not have been money-spinners at the box-office but her job is to give her best and not compete with newcomers.
Madhuri, 47, made a come back in Bollywood with Vishal Bharadwaj’s home production ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi and followed it up with Shoumik Sen’s ‘Gulab Gang’ with actress Juhi Chawla.
‘Dedh Ishqiya’, a sequel to ‘Ishqiya’, released in January this year and got an average response. ‘Gulaab Gang’ centered on struggle of women in the country.