A new study has recently documented the advantages of organic food and crops over their conventional counterparts.
The findings suggested that organic foods and crops have 18 to 69 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds and the levels of pesticide residues were usually 10-fold to 100-fold lower.
Ceasefire violations have been reported along the Line of Control RS Pura in Jammu and Kashmir today.
Pakistani troops fired at Indian posts in a show of aggression.
Further details are awaited. (ANI)
Left Front parties and the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) are spearheading a day-long shutdown today in protest against passage of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha on Friday.
The shutdown is underway across the state of Telangana, and has reportedly affected normal life.
Public transport services were disrupted by agitators at several places in the region. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party stayed away from the agitation.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan formally handed over charge of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Satish Upadhyay here on Saturday.
Earlier today, BJP activists had celebrated his appointment outside the office.
Upadhyay was appointed on July 9. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had announced his appointment.
Upadhyay succeeds Harsh Vardhan, who had resigned from the post after being elected an MP from Chandni Chowk and elevated to the Union Cabinet.
He is also the Chairman of South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Standing Committee. (ANI)
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, who paid a visit to Lady Hardinge Medical College, today said the Health Ministry is trying to upgrade the facilities in hospitals.
Dr Vardhan said, “Reducing infant mortality rate is a priority. No pregnant women should die because she could not get better medicine, hospital and best treatment on time. We are talking to our doctors’ junior doctors and patients to improve the condition. It is a slow process. We are trying to improve the cleanliness at the hospital.
Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Saturday said the appointment of Nripendra Mishra as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal secretary is against the spirit of their parliamentary mandate.
“This decision of the government is person specific. This is against the spirit of their parliamentary mandate. When we went for the change of personnel in government offices through constitutional ways, they made a hue and cry over it,” said Singhvi.
The Congress has questioned the appointment of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra.
Tom Felton paid tribute to the Dave Legeno, who appeared in the ‘ Harry Potter’ movies as werewolf Fenrir Greyback.
The 26-year-old actor, who played Draco Malfoy in the fantasy film series, took to Instagram and said that Legeno, 50, may have portrayed to be the tough and bad guy in films, but he was a “kind gentleman” in real life in and he learned a lot from him, the BBC reported.
The British actor, who was a mixed martial arts fighter, was found dead in an isolated area of California’s Death Valley by hikers, post which his body was recovered by helicopter.
On Friday, private schools in the state sought an increase in the fee structure. The schools contradict the decision of the government to implement GO No. 42 issued in 2010 prescribing an annual fee structure between Rs 9,000 and Rs 12,000.
The school representatives wanted the government to prescribe fees taking into consideration the inflation in the past four years.
George Clooney has rejected the apology for false reports that said future mother-in-law objected to his marriage.
Speaking out in another statement, published by USA Today, the 53-year-old actor rejected an apology over the false reports, saying that none of it was true, the Mirror reported.
Scarlett Johansson admitted to be a jealous lover and said that she has insecurities regarding her French beau Romain Duraic.
The 29-year-old actress, who is expecting her first child with her journalist fiance, said that she didn’t think she was a jealous type until she started dating Duriac, adding that maybe it came with the territory as she’s with a Frenchman.
It’s okay to be a little jealous, she added.
The beauty will soon be seen playing a drug mule in her upcoming thriller ‘Lucy’, which is due to hit Indian theaters on August 1, 2014. (ANI)
A controversial Bill was passed by Lok Sabha on Friday that allows transfer of seven mandals from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh to facilitate the Polavaram irrigation project amid strident protests from MPs belonging to the TRS, Trinamool and the BJD which called the legislation “unconstitutional”.
Pandemonium broke out on the floor of the Lok Sabha the moment the AP Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill seeking to replace an Ordinance, and a statutory resolution disapproving it, was taken up, prompting TRS members to troop into the well of the House.
Kurdish peshmerga forces took have power over production facilities at two northern Iraqi oilfields on Friday, substituting Arab workers with Kurdish personnel.
The national oil ministry in Baghdad condemned the takeover at the Bai Hassan and Kirkuk fields and called on the Kurds to withdraw at once to avoid “dire consequences”.
The “factory reset“ function on Android handsets fails to properly delete data after retrieving more than a thousand photos of men and women in “various stages of undress“ from second-hand phones, warned the Security researchers.
Avast conducted the study by using advanced data retrieval techniques to recover data from 20 second-hand smartphones purchased from eBay. Over 40,000 photos were recovered including “more than 250 selfies of what appear to be the previous owner’s manhood”.
When: 2PM Saturday 19th Where: starting at Aotea square What: March in solidarity with Palestine to end outside US consulate. Rally against the ongoing assault on the Palestinian people. We will be laying a pair of shoes and the name of every victim of the latest wave of escalating Israeli brutality at the entrance of the US consulate. It is a symbolic gesture that will do little to ease the hearts and minds of grieving families of sons, daughters, brothers, mothers and sisters who will never see Eid. However, let us acknowledge the dead our news channels continue to dehumanise.
Heritage conservation activists on Friday slammed the Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) for supposedly barring entry of visitors into the heritage zone on Naya Qila and termed the move as `discriminatory’ and a infringement of fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
UPSC candidates protesting outside Rajnath Singh’s residence have said that they are not hopeful that their demands will be met.
Tanay Rana, a UPSC aspirant said, “We have already met Rajnath Singh four times before. Like every time, even today, he has assured us that he will discuss the matter with the Prime Minister. But we are not very hopeful of the positive results.”
Steven Spielberg was recently condemned by facebook users for murdering the dinosaur after the ‘Jurassic Park’ Prank Goes Viral.
Meme creator Jay Branscomb posted a photo to Facebook of Spielberg on the set of 1993 film Jurassic Park and captioned it, “disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a triceratops he just slaughtered, please share so the world could name and shame this despicable man”, the Hollywood reporter reported.
A Pakistan Islamic charity has sent six trucks of relief material for refugees in Bannu, who have been displaced by the Pakistan Army’s Ooperation Zarb-i-Azb to oust Taliban militants from North Waziristan.
The Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a charity linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa, has sent the aid.
The relief goods consisted mostly of dry rations.
Missing man’s dead body found
(Siasat News): Narsingi police has found the dead body of a mysteriously missing man from a bowli. Police said that the deceased Tapan Roy, 28, native of Assam and resident of Kokapet.
He was missing from July 6. He had left the house saying that he was going to attend his duty but never returned.
A complaint was lodged with the police and later, his dead body was found in a bowli. Police has registered a case of suspicious death and further investigations are on.
Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology (IT) Ravi Shankar Prasad has told the Rajya Sabha that the government plans to invest Rs.39758 crores for the restoration of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) over the next five years.
The Delhi Tourism Corporation is hosting a three-day-long mango festival at which 500 varieties of mangoes will be on display.
This is the 26th Mango Festival and has been organised at Dilli Haat. (ANI)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday accused the Congress of trying to secure the post of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha through manipulation.
“The condition of the Congress, and the embarrassment it has caused them, has made them mad. They ran the government through a lot of fixes and manipulation, and now they want to get the LoP post in a similar way,” said Naqvi.
Driven by improved performance of the manufacturing sector, industrial production growth soared to 19-month high of 4.7 percent in May raising hopes of a sustained recovery.
The factory output number has remained in positive territory for second month in a row mainly due to a better show by manufacturing, mining and power sectors and higher output of capital goods.
The output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had contracted by 2.5 percent in May last year.
Corrupt practices during Congress rule destroyed Andhra Pradesh’s brand image as an investment destination and led to a decline in its industrial growth by half a per cent, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu said here on Friday.
Releasing a white paper on industries, which is the third in the series of white papers on various sectors, he said the industrial sector contributed 24.11% to AP’s gross domestic product until 2004 when the Telugu Desam was in power but fell to 23.61% during the decade of Congress rule.
A 29-year-old man hanged himself to death at his residence on Thursday night.
G Anudeep (29), S/o Balraju R/O Parsigutta of Chilkalguda, who was a student, committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence.
Distraught over not finding a job since last few months, he took the extreme step.
His body has been shifted to Gandhi Hospital Mortuary for postmortem, and will be handed over to his relatives after autopsy. A case has been registered by Chilkalguda police.