Month: July 2014

Looking at the long term prospects and to spur sales in the short term, French automobile maker Renault group has decided to focus on the Middle East, India and Gulf markets, the group said.

The Renault group has now split its Asia-Pacific region into two. The new Middle-East India region will include the Middle East, the Gulf countries and the Indian sub-continent.

The new region will be headed by Bernard Cambier, a member of Renault’s Management Committee.

The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 3.28 crore for providing relief to riot victims, district authorities said here today.

The state government has released more fund of Rs 3.28 crore for riot victims. Relief would be provided to 58 families of riots victims, 52 injured and 70 house owners whose houses got damaged in riots, Additional District Magistrate Indermani Tripathi told reporters.

The step has been taken on the direction of Supreme Court to provide adequate relief and rehabilitation funds riot victims in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas.

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan says she is a fan of director Rohit Shetty and calls him the “Manmohan Desai of this generation.”

Kareena worked with Rohit in hit films like ‘Golmaal Returns’ and ‘Golmaal 3’.

“According to me, Rohit Shetty is Manmohan Desai of this generation. He is fantastic. Which actress will not like to work with him? He has given me two of my career’s biggest hit films and the third one (hinting at ‘Singham Returns’) is on the way,” Kareena said in an interview here.

Do you love to customise your smartphone more often as you are more worried about how others will perceive you with a phone in hand? Join the South Koreans.

According to new research, Americans customise their mobile phones less while South Koreans love to accessorise their phones with charms, cases, bags, stickers, ringtones and screen wallpaper.

This is because Americans value self-expression more and are less worried about how others perceive them and South Koreans are more focused on how to fit into social situations.

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, a subsidiary of Sun Pharma, has initiated recall of some lots of Venlafaxine Hydrochloride extended-release tablets from the US market.

According to a notification by the FDA, the recall of 26,530 units of 30-count bottles and 14,597 units of 90-count bottles is voluntarily initiated by the company through a letter to the regulator last month under ‘Class-II’ classification.

Venlafaxine Hydrochloride extended-release tablets are indicated for the treatment of major depressive disorder.

Gold futures fell 0.15 per cent to Rs 28,570 per 10 grams today as speculators offloaded positions to book profits even as the metal traded at nearly four-month high overseas.

On the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in October fell Rs 43 or 0.15 per cent to Rs 28,570 per 10 grams in a business turnover of six lots.

Similarly, the metal for delivery in August declined by Rs 32 or 0.11 per cent to Rs 28,464 per 10 grams in 195 lots.

AP Chief Minister N. Chandra-babu Naidu, write to his Telangana counter-part K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to issue orders to without delay to start the admission process into engineering courses.

Mr Naidu has added that lakhs of students from both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were being affected due to the holdup in the Eamcet (engineering stream) counselling for admissions.

Any further delay would maybe result in meritorious students from both the states going to other states, he said.

Deeply perturbed by the ethnic violence in Iraq, Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has met senior Iraqi religious leaders in the US and said that dialogue is the only way to establish long-term peace in the war-torn country.

At the ‘Art of Living Retreat’ at the scenic Blue Ridge Mountain in North Carolina, Ravi Shankar met two Iraqi Shia leaders.

According to Dr. Sharma Chief Secretary for the government of Telangana, on the representation made by Telangana Engineers Joint Action Committee, the government has decided to celebrate Telangana Engineers Day on July 11 commemorating Nawab Ali Nawaz Jung Bahadur, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of renowned engineer of erstwhile Hyderabad state.

Telangana government has directed all district collectors and chiefs of departments to celebrate Telangana Engineers Day on the occasion of birth anniversary of Nawab Ali Nawaz Jung Bahadur.

Get ready to play popular game Angry Bird with a robot as researchers have paired a small humanoid robot with an android tablet that can help kids programme a robot to learn new skills.

Researchers envision the robot-smart tablet system as a future rehabilitation tool for children with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities.

“The robot is able to learn by watching because it knows how interaction with a tablet app is supposed to work,” said Ayanna Howard, a professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

How does it happen?

Long-term pesticide exposure affects individual bee behaviour, including pollen collection and the choice of flowers, a study using radio tracked bees has shown.

“Bees have to learn many things about their environment, including how to collect pollen from flowers,” explained Nigel Raine from University of Guelph in Canada.

“Exposure to this neonicotinoid pesticide seems to prevent bees from being able to learn these essential skills.” he added.

The researchers tracked individual bees leaving and returning to the colony, the flowers from which they collected pollen and how much.

Hot and humid days may bring more kidney stones as higher temperatures contribute to dehydration that leads to a higher concentration of calcium in the body that promote the growth of kidney stones.

In a study involving 60,000 patients in the US, researchers found that as daily temperatures rose, there was a rapid increase in the number of patients seeking treatment for kidney stones.

One of the largest ethnic professional organisations representing some 100,000 Indian American physicians settled in the US is focused on becoming an all-inclusive organization that would also help young physicians coming from India.

The new executive committee of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) led by its new president Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar assumed charge during its 32nd annual convention in San Antonio, Texas last month.

A rocket fired from Gaza hit a petrol station in southern Israel on Friday, causing a huge explosion and injuring three people, the army and medics said.

“A barrage of rockets was fired at Ashdod, one of which hit a gas station causing massive damage,” a statement from the army said.

Medics said three people had been taken to hospital, including one who was very seriously hurt.

Wife kills aged husband?
(Siasat News): A wife allegedly killed her aged husband in Mailardevpally. Inspector S Venkat Reddy said that the 60-year-old handicapped husband Hanumantha Rao was brutally murdered by some unknown assailants.

However, with the evidences available at the place of the crime and with the sniffer dog, the needle of the suspicion turned at the wife as except the duo, no one was living with them.

His son is an auto driver and his wife is a housemaid and both of them were not at home at the time of the crime.

Rs 100 crore for modernisation of madrasas was announced by Union budget and announced a decision to launch a special programme for the upgrdation of skills of minorities in traditional arts and crafts.

“An additional amount of Rs 100 crore for modernisation of madrasas has been provided to the department of school education,” finance minister Arun Jaitley said in his budget speech.

BJP, in its poll manifesto had promised to introduce a national madrasa modernisation programme.

The Egyptian Qurra mesmerized the audience with their distinct tune of recitation of Holy Quran. The Egyptian qurra who are on their visit to India, presented different tune patterns of recitation of Holy Quran, at Golden Jubilee Hall, Siasat office.

The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 3.28 crore for providing relief to riot victims, district authorities said here Friday.

The state government has released more fund of Rs 3.28 crore for riot victims. Relief would be provided to 58 families of riots victims, 52 injured and 70 house owners whose houses got damaged in riots, Additional District Magistrate Indermani Tripathi told reporters.

The step has been taken on the direction of Supreme Court to provide adequate relief and rehabilitation funds riot victims in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas.

The reality of Paradise is something which people will never be able to understand until they actually enter it, but God has shown us glimpses of it in the Quran. He has described it as a place essentially different to the life of this world, both in the very nature and purpose of life, as well as the types of delights which people will enjoy therein. The Quran tells people about Paradise, which God offers to them, describes its great blessings, and proclaims its beauties to everyone.

The Orissa High Court today asked the state government to file a counter affidavit on a PIL alleging inaction by the administration in constructing ‘anganwadi’ buildings.

Taking up the petition filed by social activist Pradeep Pradhan, a division bench of Justices Pradeep K. Mohanty and Biswajit Mohanty asked the government to file its counter affidavit within a month.

Pradhan in his petition maintained that due to inaction by the state government, a major national programme that addressed the health and nutrition needs of children below six years had suffered a setback.

The hearing of a habeas corpus writ filed by the wife of a doctor arrested from Visakhapatnam remained inconclusive in the Orissa High Court today.

A division bench of Justices Indrajit Mohanti and Sangam Kumar Sahoo adjourned the hearing to Monday as the petitioner’s counsel could not finish his arguments.

Objecting to the arrest and detention of Seven Hills Hospital director N Prabhakar Babu by the Cuttack city police, his wife’s counsel Satyabrata Pradhan argued in the court that the Odisha police did not have any legal sanction to arrest a neighbouring state’s doctor.

Days after courting controversy over his remarks on imparting sex education in schools, Health Minister Harshvardhan today said it should be replaced by a format which makes people aware about child pregnancy and associated evils.

“I have spoken out against so-called sex education without pedagogy on this burning issue and would like it to be replaced by a format which makes people aware about child pregnancy and associated evils,” he said on the eve of UN World Population Day.

Telangana government is mulling over giving a new name to fee-reimbursement scheme. It is said that the scheme will be implemented after converting the fee-reimbursement scheme into financial aid to students. According to government sources an official announcement could be made in this connection shortly.

Expressing strong anger over the budget presented in the parliament, Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP said that the budget presented in the parliament is like BJP budget only. Speaking to press persons TRS MPs told that union government is discriminating against Telangana state. Lamenting upon the injustice done towards Telangana, TRS MPs told that it is painful that 7 new projects were sanctioned for Andhra Pradesh while Telangana could not get a single project.

A doctor of a government hospital here was today allegedly beaten up and the hospital ransacked by the relatives of a teenager who succumbed to his injuries after falling off from a suburban train, the police said.

Souvik Ghosh (17) a resident of Titagarh and a student of class XI sustained fatal injuries when his head rammed into an electric post along the railway tracks while he was leaning out of a running suburban train and fell off, a senior officer of the Barrackpore Police Commissionarate said.