India’s state-run National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) Sunday signed an agreement with Iran’s Technical and Vocational Training Organisation (TVTO) to jointly collaborate in skill development.
“This is an exclusive initiative to enhance collaborations in skill development in both the countries and share working models and experiences,” NSDC chief executive Dilip Chenoy said on the occasion here.
Fancy pursuing distinctive areas of study to create a niche for yourself? Institutions across the national capital are offering courses to mould social entrepreneurs, medical experts and disaster management experts, to name just a few, as the rush for students from all over the country to study in Delhi continues.
A 23-year-old teacher of Balwakheri village under Charthawal police station in the district was allegedly gang-raped by three youths who filmed the act and threatened to leak the video, police said on Sunday.
The rape survivor told a news channel that the prime accused Mohit accosted her when she was returning home after giving tuition to her students on Saturday.
The accused, she said, pulled her into a desolate house and called the other accused — Sorabh and Vipin— over the phone.
She mentioned in her statement that while Mohit raped her the other two filmed the incident.
Singer Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson are finally married. The couple has two children.
The marriage ceremony took place July 5 at the San Ysidro Ranch hotel, reports usmagazine.com.
The 33-year-old and the former National Football League player’s wedding was attended by their families and friends, including the singer’s parents Joe and Tina Simpson, sister Ashlee Simpson, and Jessica Alba and beau Cash Warren.
Here comes an app that determines if your phone or your friend’s smartphone is on with over 99 percent accuracy.
Billed as ON?, it also tells you if your phone is off.
Just send a text through the ON? app to your friend, and they will be able to text you back through ON? to tell you their power status.
If your friend’s phone is off, the message “Is your phone on?” will be delivered the next time they open the app.
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar died of massive hear attack in a Mumbai hospital, reports said on Sunday.
Confirming the death, additional Commissioner of Police, Krishna Prakash said, “Haseena Parkar, sister of Dawood Ibrahim, died today.”
As per the reports, Parkar, 55, who used to handle Dawood’s business in Mumbai, died at Habib Hospital in Dongri of south Mumbai.
In yet another incident that can put humanity to shame, a 12-year-old girl working as a domestic help in Delhi house, was raped by a 77-year-old man for 12 days, as per reports.
While the result of the medical examination conducted on the girl has come positive, she is being counselled by a special police team.
According to the police, the girl who belongs to West Bengal, was raped continuously for the last 12 days. However, today when she resisted, the accused started beating her. On hearing the noise, the neighbours informed police which later raided the house and rescued the girl.
Attacking the Haryana government’s decision to announce creation of a separate committee for gurdwaras (Sikh shrines) in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called the decision “unconstitutional” and accused the Congress of behaving like the “tyrannical Mughal rulers” to weaken Sikh power.
Terming the announcement made by his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda Sunday for a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for Haryana as a “cheap step”, Badal said that the decision was “unfortunate”.
The Public Works Department (PWD) Sunday said it will allot all Delhi government pool accommodations through an online automated system of allotment (ASA).
In a statement, it said: “The allotment of Delhi government pool residential accommodations will be done through an automated system of allotment based on choices for specific houses by the applicants.”
“The step has been taken to provide transparency, speedy allotment, higher occupancy of houses and to enable the applicants to get houses of their choice,” said Arun Baroka, principal secretary, PWD, in the statement.
In the wake of Nagaram gas pipeline fire-explosion last month in which 21 persons were killed, the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has appointed Engineers India (EIL) to check the health of its pipeline network of 870 kms from KG Basin on East Coast.
A senior official said that all the pipeline maintenance bases of GAIL across the country have been alerted on the parameters of their health and safety, and instructions have been issued for additional surveillance at increased frequency, and any deviation or abnormality to be attended immediately.
The body of a 28-year-old Manipuri man was found in a drain here, police said Sunday.
The body of Wilungbou – who worked in a call centre – was fished out of the drain in Chirag Delhi area of south Delhi, after it was spotted by a passerby who informed police around 1.30 a.m.
Police said there were some injury marks on the body.
Another eyewitness told police he saw Wilungbou running and falling into the drain.
Police later found that the Manipuri man had come to attend a party at a friend’s place.
Congress activists in Maharashtra Sunday protested against inflation and price rise under the new NDA government at the Centre, a party official said here.
The Congress highlighted how the spiralling inflation coupled with hike in oil prices and train fares have hit the masses, state spokesperson Sachin Sawant said.
The activists accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of going back on his pre-election promise of reducing inflation and prices of essential commodities.
District administration today suspended three government teachers for allegedly watching obscene video films in the premises of Panigaon middle school here, an official said.
Mathura Basic Shiksa Adhikari Shyam Prakash Yadav said Headmaster Mahavir Prasad, Assistant teacher Mohar Singh and a class IV employee Jayveer Singh were suspended with an immediate effect for watching obscene videos on school’s computers.A contractual part-time teacher Praveen Kumar was fired from the job in the matter, he said.
Back in November, Akhouri Sinha, an Indian-American research scientist, was looking for some information to write a few words on the death of his team leader on an expedition to Antarctica in the seventies.
To his surprise, he found a Wikipedia entry dated May 17, 2012, saying a 990-metre high mountain at the southeast extremity of Erickson Bluffs in the south part of McDonald Heights had been named Mt. Sinha after him.
First and business class passengers on Air India will be able to taste and then choose their food, once the national carrier joins the Star Alliance later this week.
Flight caterer TajSATS today said it has partnered with Air India to improve the onboard food service on select domestic and international routes.
“The ‘Table set-up’ has been conceptualised to provide the opportunity to savour tailor-make dishes based on individual tastes and preferences,” TajSATS’ director for food production Satish Arora said.
Believing firmly in the primacy of Test cricket, new ICC chairman N Srinivasan has said that the traditional five-day format “cannot be a 10-member club” forever and added that China are keen to enter the fray if cricket becomes an Olympic sport.
“Test cricket cannot be a 10-men club. So in those countries where there is an opportunity, there is interest and where there is domestic structure (the format should be promoted),” he said.
He spoke about China’s plans of taking active interest in the sport.
Brazilian legend Pele hopes that five-time champions Brazil will win the FIFA World Cup without star striker Neymar, who has been ruled out of the tournament with a fractured vertebrae during the quarterfinal against Colombia.
Pele on social networking site Twitter compared Neymar’s injury to his own during the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Pele was injured in the second group match against Czechoslovakia and was ruled out of the tournament but still Brazil won and defended the title, reports EFE.
A special “Kasab class” is part of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)’s training module for its new recruits during which they are told about the mistakes committed by Ajmal Kasab during the deadly Mumbai terror attack.
This emerged during interrogation of LeT terrorist Mohd Naveed Jutt alias Abu Hanzala, a resident of Multan in Pakistan, who was arrested by police in the third week of last month in South Kashmir, according to official sources.
Sharply condemning Trinamool MP Tapas Paul’s rape-and-violence speech, BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Sunday said West Bengal’s people are terror-stricken after listening to the language used by the Lok Sabha member as also other leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Describing Paul’s hate speech as a “law and order” matter, Hussain said the issue can not be called an “in-house affair” of the Trinamool.
“It is neither an in-house affair nor a party matter, but a specific law and order matter,” Hussain said on the sidelines of a programme here.
At least six Yemeni army personnel were killed in an ambush Sunday by suspected Al Qaeda gunmen in Yemen.
The killings occurred in the southern province of Abyan, a security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
“The six army personnel were travelling by a military vehicle on main road town of Mahfad in Abyan,” the security source said.
“The Al Qaeda militants stopped them in a well-planned ambush, forced them out of the vehicle, and shot them dead at the scene,” the source added.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today expressed shock on the death of 11 Telugu people in a wall collapse incident taken place at Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu State. The Chief Minister directed the labour commissioner Ramanjaneyulu to rush immediately and monitor the rescue and relief operations over there. He asked the officials concerned to provide timely succor and needed help to victims and their family members. The Labour Commissioner left for TN, according to information. AP Labour Minister Achchennaidu too expressed grief on the incident.
Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today exhorted the Zilla Parishat Chairmen and Chairpersons to put in persistent efforts to rebuild the Telangana State to witness growth on fast pace.
Andhra Pradesh Endowment minister Manikyala Rao today said the department would set up English medium schools in every district under Endowments department.
Speaking to mediapersons at Guntur, the minister said details of revenue and expenditure of the temples would be made available on online.
We have already asked those who are occupying nominated posts to resign. Otherwise necessary action would betaken against them, Rao said.
Impressed with the proactive measures of Govt. of A.P. towards strengthening power sector, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), an affiliate of the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India has agreed to extend support to Andhra Pradesh in various Energy Efficiency & Energy Conservation (EC&EC) activities aimed at benefitting the State and stakeholders.
TJAC Chairman, Prof M Kodandaram today inaugurated NRI WING of Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) here on Saturday at The Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, PA, USA. TNGO President Devi Prasad, TRS MLA Gongidi Sunitha and TITA Honorary President V Prakash were present. The program started with paying tribute to all those who sacrificed their lives for the cause of Telangana statehood which followed by Telangana State Anthem ‘Jaya Jaya he Telangana’.