Indo-Canadian adult film actress Sunny Leone, who is currently enjoying her Bollywood journey, will be the showstopper for jewellery brand ‘Apala by Sumit’ on the first day of the forthcoming edition of the India International Jewellery Week (IIJW), starting July 14.
The actress says she is excited to become a “royal tribal queen” on the ramp.
A teenage Delhi student who had come to Gurgaon with his friends for a jaunt in shopping malls, fell off a running train and died on the spot, police said Saturday.
Aashu, 17, of Dabri in Delhi missed his classes and came to Gurgaon with four of his friends.
“While returning to Delhi late Friday evening, Aashu fell off a running train near Bajghera and died on the spot,” said a police officer.
The deceased was a class X student.
The body was Sunday handed over to his family members after post-mortem examination.
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At least five suspected militants were killed and as many militant hideouts were destroyed after jet fighters pounded parts of Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan early Saturday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),on facing fire and opposition from inside the Miramshah town and Boya village, air strikes were launched to eliminate militants, Dawn news reported.
Militant hideouts, caves and a huge cache of arms and ammunition were also destroyed as militants were killed in the air strikes. Most of the killed militants were reportedly Uzbeks.
Two hundred Indians from Iraq will return Saturday night by an Iraqi Airways special chartered flight from Najaf to Delhi, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said.
He said that in the next 48 hours, approximately another 400 Indian nationals would be returning to various destinations in India, including Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, through commercial flights.
“It is estimated that about 1,200 (Indians) would have returned to India at government cost by Monday,” Akbaruddin said.
RLD leader Amar Singh Saturday said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will face “grave consequences” and “lose a large portion of her supporter base” if she did not expel Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul, who is facing the heat over his rape and violence remarks.
“Mamata will face grave consequences….she will lose a large portion of her supporter base (if she doesn’t expel him),” Amar Singh said when asked to comment on the Trinamool’s attitude on the issue, which has grabbed international headlines.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday claimed that the BJP-led NDA Government worked systematically to free and get back the 46 Indian nurses stranded in Iraq. “I would like to congratulate Narendra Modi’s government for safely bringing back people stuck in Iraq. They have worked systematically and have aided people to come back to their home safely,” said Naqvi. The 46 Indian nurses, who were being held captive in Iraq are expected to reach home at around 11.45 a.m., today.
The United States has banned launching, landing or operating drones from all national parks, monuments and other historical sites.
“We have serious concerns about the negative impact that flying unmanned aircraft is having in parks. We are prohibiting their use until we can determine the most appropriate policy that will protect park resources and provide all visitors with a rich experience,” Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service (NPS), said in a statement.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has strongly condemned the TRS Government for taking back the land allotted to the APNGOs.
In the backdrop of the deteriorating situation in Iraq, a new voice in fiction emerges from the rubble and describes the war-torn country from the inside as never before.
“The Corpse Exhibition And Other Stories of Iraq” by author-filmmaker Hassan Blasim is the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective.
US privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) has filed a formal complaint with the Federate Trade Commission (FTC) over Facebook’s use of user data in its “emotion contagion” study.
“The company purposefully messed with people’s minds. Facebook conducted the psychological experiment with researchers at Cornell University and the University of California, San Francisco, who failed to follow standard ethical protocols for human subject research,” EPIC said in its complaint.
The government Saturday said it was prepared to discuss all issues in the budget session of parliament that begins Monday as the opposition said it will raise price rise and the recent rail fare hike.
At a meeting of leaders of parties in the Lok Sabha called by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan ahead of the budget session, opposition parties assured their cooperation in the smooth running of the house.
Mahajan told mediapersons later the meeting was “very good” and members assured her their cooperation.
Welcoming return of Kerala nurses from Iraq, Congress leader Amarinder Singh Saturday urged the Centre to intensify its efforts for freeing 39 Indians being held hostage in the strife-torn nation.
“While it was a matter of great satisfaction and immense relief that the nurses had returned home, there was an overwhelming concern and anxiety among the relatives of captured youth, most of whom are from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh,” the former Punjab chief minister said.
Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Digvijay Singh said here on Saturday that he will go on a hunger strike from July 7 for a week, if demands on farmer issues are not met.
Former union minister and BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya urged the central government to consider the application of Osmania University for assessment and accreditation by the NAAC and save higher education in the newly formed Telangana state.
Parking has always been cumbersome, but a new technology has made it easy with a robot that will conveniently park your car at your desired location.
In Germany, Dusseldorf airport has recently started using this technology where travelers can drop their car at arrival level of the ‘parking plus’ structure, CNN reported.
People can confirm if the car is vacant with one touch, and the valet robot nicknamed ‘Ray’, who also weighs the car for the standard weight of up to 3.31 tons, takes the car and parks it.
Congress Party leader Shakeel Ahmad on Saturday condemned Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje’s reported move to scrap the NREGA scheme, citing that it would be a ‘punishment’ for the poor people of the region.
Ahmad told ANI “We should try to strengthen and re-assess the scheme, but scrapping off a scheme like NREGA will be against national interest and against the interest of the poor people.”
He said “the ruling party admitted that poor people are getting more and more money through NREGA, which increased their purchasing power.
Janata Dal Party leader Sharad Yadav has questioned the need of loudspeakers hanging outside places of worship.
Sharad Yadav told ANI, “The Bhartiya Janata Party has fought elections in the name of bringing ‘acche din’ (good times). Some kind of rule must be implemented by the government to remove all mikes from every religious place. It acts as a hindrance when people sleep in peace.”
The Congress is considering going to court if it is not given the post of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, sources said.
“Knocking the court’s door is one of the options, but we will wait and watch for now,” said a Congress leader who did not wish to be named.
The source, however, added that the issue was being discussed right now and a final decision has not been taken.
The Pakistani army said security forces sought air support after militants showed resistance during the ongoing ground offensive in North Waziristan Saturday.
The security forces have launched a major operation against the Pakistani and foreign militants after a rare peace dialogue collapsed and the Taliban increased attacks on security forces and sensitive installations.
Ground forces started action two weeks after the air strikes that killed over 300 local and foreign militants.
Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan met state food ministers and discussed issues such as inflation, the problem of hoarding and black marketing. After the meeting, Paswan said foodgrain hoarding should be made a non-bailable offence. Expressing concern over the issue, he said hoarding is a serious crime in foreign countries, while it has become a common phenomenon in India. The food ministers from different states met in New Delhi to reach a consensus to make foodgrain hoarding an offence to minimise the differences between the demand and supply.
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has said Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is empowered to grant the post of Leader of Opposition to the Congress. “It is up to the Speaker. She has the power to give us the post of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha. But, we don’t know why there has been a delay in giving it,” said Kharge. On the issue of floor coordination ahead of the Budget Session being discussed in the all party meeting called by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Kharge said, “We are ready to give constructive support, if the parliament is run in a democratic way.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today said that all parties have agreed to cooperate with the government during the upcoming Budget Session. “The meeting was good and everybody has agreed to cooperate with us. They (members) have said that they want discussions. The government has agreed for discussions, as it wants to take everybody onboard in all decisions,” said Mahajan after the all party meet. “This meeting was aimed at discussing the business of parliament and the issues that will be discussed during the session.
Telangana BJP unit president G Kishan Reddy today asserted that Narendra Modi government was committed to help TRS government for development of the Telangana state.
Reddy along with former union minister and party’s national vice-president Bandaru Dattatreya and others called on central ministers in New Delhi and apprised them about the backwardness of the region and sought their cooperation for the development of new state.
A group of 78 Indian workers stranded in war-ravaged Iraq landed here Saturday.
The first batch of workers arrived here by a special aircraft at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad on the outskirts of the city.
Officials are making arrangements to send the workers to their respective hometowns.
They were among 183 Indians who arrived by a special Air India flight from Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The flight reached here via Kochi, where 46 nurses from Kerala disembarked.
A judge in Allahabad has received a threatening letter, saying he will be blown up if he does not dismiss a case against Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, police said Saturday.
The letter, received by the office of the judicial magistrate in the district court, Gyanendra Tripathi, is signed under the name of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
A worried Tripathi handed over the letter to district police chief Manjil Saini who in turn ordered a probe into the matter.
Saini asked a special police team to ascertain from where the letter was dispatched and also to verify it.