Month: July 2014

The NDMC said Sunday it has started a tiffin service to provide nutritious food cooked by trained women from low income families.

The highlights of the scheme are high standards of hygiene, nutritional value and low price, NDMC chairman Jalaj Shrivastava said.

Each food packet has dal, rice, vegetable and chapatis and costs Rs.40.

Initially around 30 women are engaged in the pilot project called Urja, now open only to the staff of the New Delhi Municipal Council. It will be later extended to nearby offices.

Indian pharma firms face competition from Pakistan in NigeriaAs Indian pharmaceutical companies prepare to increase the volume of their trade in Nigeria, it is becoming clear that they would have to compete companies from their closest neighbour, Pakistan, which have given the signal that they are keen to take a slice of Nigeria’s growing market in the health sector as well as pharmaceutical products.

Chilean government has officially confirmed that flying saucer pictured in April, 2013 is a real UFO.

The government of the country declared it to be genuine UFO because no other explanation like clouds, aircraft, weather phenomena or drones could be placed in by the experts, The Daily Star reported.

The mystery object was described as a “flattened disc of brilliant color with a diameter of five to ten meters (16 to 32 feet)” by the workers.

With a new technology called ‘spin current’, researchers have accelerated writing speeds on computer hard drives by 1,000 times.

The researchers used spin current to change the magnetisation instead of the ‘write head’ currently in use.

“The number of bits has been growing rapidly for many years, but the write speed has hardly increased. There is a need for a new data storage technology,” said Sjors Schellekens from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Cyberabad Police have arrested a Nigerian national from Mumbai for allegedly cheating a city resident to the tune of Rs 11 lakh.

The Cyber Crime Police of Cyberabad arrested Israel Chimezie alias Toney Maxwell from a flat in Mumbai, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Janaki Sharmila said today.

On April 11, one S Vinod Kumar, a resident of Nacharam here, approached Cyber Crime Police stating that in January this year an unknown phone caller from Ghana told him that his company required some specific liquid substance that is used in the production of animal vaccines.

Government has decided to allocate Rs. 50 lakh to each district for construction, repair, and whitewash and to cater to other basic necessities of the Masajids and Eidgahs.

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao directed Secretary Minority Welfare and other district collectors to survey the masajid and eidgahs of the respective districts and submit the report of their requirement. Collectors were asked to prefer masajid whose revenue is less and which lack basic facilities.

In the first phase, the government sanctioned Rs. 30 lakh to each of the 9 districts and Rs. 9 lakh to Adilabad.

A man, accused of raping a woman and forcibly marrying her by threatening to post her obscene pictures on social networking sites, has been freed by a Delhi court.

The court acquitted the Delhi resident as the woman retracted from her earlier statement and was declared hostile.

“Since the prosecutrix has not supported the case of the prosecution and there being no other eyewitness to the incident, it was found futile to carry on trial of the case any further,” Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt said.

A video news report by the secretive country’s state-controlled media told its North Korea football fans that its national team will play Portugal in World Cup final.

The report stated that the team had done so in style by beating Japan 7-0, USA 4-0 and China 2-0, Metro.co.uk reported.

The video showed highlights from old matches and even showed leader Kim Jong-un appearing on a screen in one of Brazil’s fan zones, much to the delight of a cheering crowd.

One said that it looked like somebody had edited together random bits of news archive. (ANI)

Willow Smith, daughter of Hollywood actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, says her style is influenced by her personality and changes all the time.

The 13-year-old believes that her fashion sense is changing as her personality is constantly evolving with her age.

The “Whip My Hair” hitmaker also confessed that her family as a whole, which includes brothers Jaden and Trey, are fans of certain brands, including luxury jewellers Cartier, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

As part of efforts to ensure safety of women, public sector units (PSUs) are being roped in to build toilets, a priority area for NDA government, Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has said.

“We are getting hold of people, the PSUs to come and build toilets (for use by women). It is a priority of this government,” she told PTI on the sidelines of a function here.

Asked if PSUs were being asked to pitch in across the country, she said, “Yes”, adding, it was part of measures to ensure women’s safety and the specifics were being worked out.

Nick Kyrgios, after beating Rafael Nadal and reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, has recently confirmed his split with Coach Simon Rea in order to spend more time at his Canberra home.

The 19-year-old rising talent said that his desire to be at home more in Canberra, when he was not at tournaments has driven him to make the decision for change within his team, News24.com reported.

He further added that Rea was a great coach as well as a person and wished him all the best for the next phase of his coaching career.

A recounting of all the votes in Afghanistan’s Presidential elections has been reportedly approved by both the candidates who are likely to replace Hamid Karzai as the next President of Afghanistan, said the US Secretary of State, John Kerry at a press conference yesterday.

According to the BBC, he welcomed the decision taken by saying that it indicates the commitment of the two candidates to restore legitimacy to the democratic process in Afghanistan. The recounting is scheduled to begin within 24 hours after the announcement was made by Kerry.

With onion prices hitting the roof at around Rs 50 per kilo, consumers in the city are exasperated and hoping that the government reins in the soaring cost.

Shoumik Guha, a consumer, told ANI, “Rates have increased because of multiple factors. However, the government should try to control the prices. Retail outlets must be even more costly as the rates in wholesale are already so high. They should attack the hoarding so that price hike should not be severe.”

Shiv Sena Member of Parliament (MP) Sanjay Raut said here on Sunday that the people of Maharshtra want party leader Uddhav Thackeray to lead the Maharashtra government.

“There is no issue over the post of Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The people of the state want him only to lead the coming government,” said Raut.

Leaders within and outside the Shiv Sena have voiced their opinions in the recent days saying, that Udhav Thackeray should lead the party’s campaign in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls. (ANI)

Congress leader Rashid Alvi criticised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Sunday saying that the party is not concerned about the rising inflation.

“The BJP doesn’t seem to be at all concerned about the rising inflation. One after another things are getting expensive and the government is not able to control it; be it price of onion or tomato, the people are tensed.” said Alvi.

A new research has revealed that scorpions create a platform in their burrows where they warm up before the evening hunt.

Scientist have found that scorpions rely on energy from the environment to regulate their internal temperature and believe that this platform provides a safe, warm spot for the scorpions to increase their body temperature before they leave their hiding places to forage at night.

Internationally acclaimed environmentalist R.K. Pachauri says India urgently needs ‘green buildings’ to ensure sustainable use of energy and water and is happy the government is sharing his TERI’s knowhow in building infrastructure.

At least 77 Taliban militants were killed in army operations in Afghanistan since early Saturday, defence ministry said Sunday.

“Afghan National Army (ANA) conducted several security operations in Laghman, Ghazni and Helmand provinces over the past 24 hours, killing 77 armed militants and injuring several other militants,” Xinhua reported citing the ministry.

The army defused 28 roadside bombs and landmines besides seizing weapons and ammunition.

Three soldiers also died following separate roadside bombings over the same period, the statement noted.IANS

Thirty-three per cent reservation to women in Parliament has the potential to be a “game changer” as not only will such a step change patriarchal mindsets but also boost pro-women legislation, feels senior UN official Lakshmi Puri.

In what could help better treat and prevent gastrointestinal infection, researchers have used unique computational models to show how infection can affect bacteria that naturally live in our intestines.

“Our gut contains ten times more bacterial cells than there are human cells in our body,” said Lynn Bry from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US.

“The behaviour of these complex bacterial ecosystems when under attack by infection can have a big impact on our health,” Bry added.

The year 2013 witnessed theft of valuables worth Rs 13,219 crore, second highest of the decade, as per the data by the National Crime Records Bureau.

The amount recorded is the second highest in the last decade. However, the recovery percentage rate by the police was second lowest.

The police was able to recover stolen articles worth only 1,762 crore from all over the country during the period.

A senior police officer said that the value has gone high mainly because of the increase in prices of various products over the years.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction and sentence of five men for gangrape of a woman after luring her to an isolated building here on the pretext of a job interview.

Justice Mukta Gupta said it was apparent that the woman had been “rendered helpless” and raped by the five persons – Surinder Singh, Dharambir, Manoj Kumar, Kapil Kumar and Prem – “one after the other”.

Amidst the soaring tension in the Gaza strip, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has called for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.

Though the Security Council members were divided on the response earlier, it’s the first time that the UN has issued a formal statement calling for peace talks and ceasefire.

According to the BBC, Israel launched air strikes targeting the security headquarter and police stations in Gaza on Sunday and the attacks were described as the heaviest bombardment since Israel launched an offensive against Gaza on July 8.

Gaps have not been bridged on some key issues in the nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers due to the “inadequate and unworkable” positions Iran holds, a senior US official said.

After one-week intensive negotiations in the capital city of Austria, Iran and the so-called P5+1 states (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) made some progress but on some key issues Iran and world powers remained far apart, Xinhua reported.

Government of Telangana has given approval for creation of 134 supernumerary posts of DSP in Telangana. Secretary Home department N Shiv Shankar issued orders in this connection. Home department had appealed to government to create 134 supernumerary posts of DSP to avoid reversion to the 40 existing DSP and also to effect promotions to the 92 inspectors due to revision of seniority of inspectors. Accepting the proposal the government issued orders.

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