‘Gangnam Style’ has become the first YouTube video to get a record breaking 2 billion views.
Psy’s hit track surpassed Justin Bieber’s ‘ Baby ‘, which has half the number of views, The Verge reported.
The music video took three times longer time to get the 2 billion mark, as it had hit 1 billion in just 159 days since its release in July 2012. (ANI)
Unidentified masked men attacked resident editor of the Pakistani daily Jang and left him injured near Western Ford Colony in Multan, media reported Sunday.
Zafar Aheer was attacked Saturday when he was moving back home after his job, Geo News reported.
Aheer said the attackers stopped his car near his residence and started beating him, the report said.
“The attackers beat me a lot, tore my clothes and snatched my mobile phone,” Aheer was quoted as saying.
The attackers threw bullets in front of Aheer’s car before escaping the site.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said legal obstacles barred her government from pursuing further charges against the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for crimes during the 1971 war as she backed her law minister, under fire for going soft on the Islamists.
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President’s rule imposed in united Andhra Pradesh will be revoked partially tomorrow to facilitate swearing-in of a government in the newly-created Telangana headed by TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.
However, the central rule will continue in the residual Andhra Pradesh till TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu takes charge as Chief Minister a week later.
A notification is expected to be issued tomorrow morning revoking President’s rule in Telangana to facilitate Rao in taking charge as the first Chief Minister of the country’s 29th state.
A man, awarded a seven-year jail term by a trial court for raping a minor, has been acquitted in the 15-year-old case by the Delhi High Court which held that physical relations between them were consensual.
Setting aside the trial court’s decision of convicting and sentencing Bihar resident Rameshwar Giri on charges of kidnap and rape in 2001, a bench headed by Justice Indermeet Kaur said the girl was conscious of her act and it cannot be termed as an act of force.
It was a cloudy and windy Sunday morning in Delhi with the minimum temperature recorded two notches below the season’s average at 25.6 degrees Celsius. The Met office has forecast dust storms and rain in some areas.
“Dust storms and thundershowers accompanied by squall may occur in some areas of the city,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department.
Humidity recorded at 8.30 a.m. was 42 percent.
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Kumar Sangakkara’s first century at Lord’s laid the platform for Sri Lanka’s nailbiting seven-run series-levelling win against England in the fourth one-day international.
Just days after they’d been shot out for 67 during a 10-wicket defeat at Old Trafford, Sri Lanka made 300 for nine after being sent into bat yesterday.
Sangakkara’s 112 — his first hundred at Lord’s in any format — was the centrepiece and together with Tillakaratne Dilshan (71), he put on 172 for the second wicket after they’d managed just 15 runs between them in Manchester.
The first high—level meeting of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the issue of black money and special probe into cases of unaccounted funds stashed away abroad by Indians will be held here tomorrow.
The meeting, to be chaired by Justice (retd) M B Shah, will be attended by SIT Vice-Chairman Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat and top officials of 11 high-profile agencies and departments.
The Railway Ministry has drawn up an action plan to prevent mishaps like the Gorakhdham Express accident on May 26 which resulted from fractured rail.
The accident which claimed about 26 lives and injured several others was caused due to fractured rails, according to a preliminary report.
Accidents due to fractured rails at regular intervals have caused a serious concern to the national transporter.
A Delhi court has sentenced a man here to five years in jail for sexually assaulting his seven-year-old daughter, born out of his live-in relationship.
Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain awarded the jail term to the Timarpur resident, after holding him guilty under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the IPC.
The court said being her father, it was the man’s duty to protect the child but he chose her to satisfy his lust.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday made a major announcement by declaring his intention to contest in the Maharashtra Assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year.
He also said that if his party (MNS) wins the Assembly polls then he will become the chief minister.
It is a first in the history of sorts where someone from the Thackeray family is contesting elections.
According to media reports Maharashtra is slated to hold Assembly elections this October to elect a new 288 member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. (ANI)
A record of sorts was created when Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s official page on facebook garnered one million ‘likes’ withind days of being launched. The page was launched on May 27 and has managed to surpass the one million mark after just four days.
Amid a controversy over TRS not inviting the Prime Minister for the swearing-in ceremony of Telangana Chief Minister-designate K Chandrasekhar Rao on June 2, the party today said it will invite Narendra Modi for the formation day celebrations of the state likely in mid-June.
“We will be visiting Delhi to invite the Prime Minister for the formation day celebrations of Telangana, within a couple of days after the swearing-in ceremony,” TRS politburo member and MP B Vinod Kumar told PTI.
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Ukraine has suspended supplies of arms, military hardware and its components to Russia since March, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov said Saturday.
“Russia cannot receive arms that have been prepaid,” Xinhua quoted the minister as saying.
Components for Russia’s military-industrial complex at present amounted to about 50 billion roubles ($143 million), he said.
Borisov said such action might negatively affect Ukrainian enterprises.
All India Majlis Tameer-e-Millath is organizing a symposium on “Expectations and Inhibitions from New Government” today at 10:30 a.m. at Gulshan-e- Khaleel, Masab Tank. Dr. Mohammed Mateenuddin Quadri, General Secretary will preside over the symposium. Mr. Ziauddin Nayar, Mr. Inamur Rahman Ghayur will address the gathering. Dr. Yousuf Hamidi, Secretary of Study Circle of Tameer-e-Millath has requested all the concerned to attend the symposium.
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Mr. Anurag Sharma, Commissioner of Police of Hyderabad inaugurated Cyber Crime Facebook yesterday at the office of Commissioner of Police, Basheer Bagh. Addressing a press conference later, he told that it will help stop cyber crimes in future.
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Muslim Women’s Intellectual Forum will conduct a three day workshop for Girls and Women from 7th to 9th June from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Masjid Alia, opposite Nizam College, Gunfoundry. Mr. Abur Raheem Quraishi and Ms. Nasera Khanam will be the Chief Quests. Mufti Sadiq Mohiuddin, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani etc will address the gathering.
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Mr. Jevan Kumar, Human Right Activists told that after the assassination of a Muslim youth in 2003, Govt. did not take any action to stop any such action in the future.
Addressing a press conference yesterday, he gave the details of the facts finding reports. He told that Kishan Bagh incident is not an event of communal riots but it is a unilateral armed action which targeted unarmed innocent Muslims.
Actress Sofia Vergara allegedly felt her ex-fiance Nick Loeb “used” her fame to boost his own business and felt “really embarrassed” by his actions.
The “Modern Family” star confirmed she had called off her two-year engagement last weekend, blaming their busy schedules. But she reportedly ended their romance because she thought Loeb was trying to take advantage of her fame, reports contactmusic.com.
“It really embarrassed Sofia,” a source told Us Weekly magazine.
A US soldier held by the Taliban in their custody for nearly five years in Afghanistan was released Saturday in a deal which included freeing five Afghan detainees in exchange, authorities here said.
The detainees were released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and handed over to Qatar, which mediated the transfer.
US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, 28, was handed over to US forces in good health, BBC quoted the US officials as saying. Sgt. Bergdahl was the only US soldier being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Officials said the Taliban handed him over Saturday evening.
Annual General Body meeting of Markazi Anjuman-e-Mehdavia will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Bhaduryar Jung Hall, Chanchalguda. Mr. Adil Mohammed Khan Mehdi, President of Markazi Anjuman-e-Mehdavia will preside over the meeting.
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Retired employees of APSRTC will hold a meeting at 9 a.m. today at Golden Function Hall, opposite Jamia Masjid Sahifa, Azampura, Chadarghat. Mr. Sirajuddin, Vice President of RTC Retired Employees’ Association will preside over the function. Dr. Mohammed Naseer Ahmed, Secretary has requested all the members to attend the meeting without fail.
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Mr. Shahbaz Ali Khan Amjad, Chairman of Old City Telangana Joint Action Committee informed that it will celebrate Telangana Festival from 8 p.m. to midnight today. Various functions will be held in many places in Old City. A grand rally will be taken out from Makkah Masjid at 8 p.m. today which will reach Gun Park. Telangana flag will be hoist at Charminar in the morning of second June. A grand function will be held at Chanchalguda Junior College tomorrow.
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